Telkom Internet Uncapped User Feedback.

[Hectic]

Rubish, useless, a waist of money...
and that is just the account.

 

[copacetic]

I don't understand though - Account was just fine when I got it a few months ago...

 

[Garson007]

It was great for about a year. Then the new IPs came and it all went to ****.

 

[MickeyD]

01h30 and they flicked on the p2p switch. :wtf:

 

[Prophet112]

I started getting full speed for http downloads at 23h58.

 

[ranger]

Change implemented between 00h15 and 02h00, should be all fixed. Something went wonky on the traffic management side. No real changes were made, just some components restarted.

 

[ranger]

Streaming live Supersport coverage worked on Fri but no longer works now. The non live video steaming however, still works

Hmm, will have to find someone in the office with Premium. I hardly watch anything these days (on TV or otherwise), not enough to justify R650pm.

 

[wingnut771]

Lol. I thought I would fire up a 5gb Telkom account I have laying dormant to test it on my side. Telkom has definitely screwed something up holy.

I have a 20Mbit VDSL line, local flies:

Yet I am getting 30kB/sec on international http downloads and my BBC iPlayer diag result is really hilarious

And this is on a capped account! I am very glad I never bought their uncapped, switching back to my trusty Openweb account now

Here is a tracert for anybody interested to see routing. I am in Cape Town.

traceroute to bbc.co.uk (212.58.253.67), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  firewall.home.local (192.168.1.1)  0.157 ms  0.547 ms  0.543 ms
 2  224-252-1.dsl.subscriber.telkomsa.net (105.224.252.1)  7.367 ms  7.898 ms  8.301 ms
 3  226-0-6.dsl.subscriber.telkomsa.net (105.226.0.6)  11.219 ms  11.621 ms  11.624 ms
 4  226-0-13.dsl.subscriber.telkomsa.net (105.226.0.13)  11.613 ms  11.615 ms  12.416 ms
 5  wblv-ip-hsll-1-wan.telkom-ipnet.co.za (196.25.39.45)  13.648 ms  14.314 ms  14.716 ms
 6  lon-ip-hsll-1-gig-0-1-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za (196.43.9.46)  160.018 ms  158.888 ms  158.868 ms
 7  93-126-245-83.packetexchange.net (83.245.126.93)  195.477 ms  190.878 ms  190.882 ms
 8  * * *
 9  ae0.er01.cwwtf.bbc.co.uk (132.185.254.93)  193.134 ms  193.534 ms  194.022 ms
10  132.185.255.156 (132.185.255.156)  197.436 ms  198.540 ms  198.939 ms
11  * * *
12  * * *
13  * * *
14  * * *
15  * * *
16  * * *
17  * * *
18  * * *

EDIT: Just switched back to my Openweb 10Mbit account and this is what I get with iPlayer diag now.

And my Plugg 4mb (G.dmt) uncapped:

 

[MickeyD]

And my Plugg 4mb (G.dmt) uncapped:

Wrong thread... move along.

 

[wingnut771]

Wrong thread... move along.

Couldn't resist

 

[MickeyD]

Back to normal on 2Mbps (international)

 

[Xman]

Yeah, much better.

C:\Users\TJ>tracert www.mikrotik.com

Tracing route to www.mikrotik.com [54.242.175.225]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.11.1
3 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 224-156-1.dsl.subscriber.telkomsa.net [105.224.1
56.1]
4 15 ms 15 ms 14 ms 224-0-6.dsl.subscriber.telkomsa.net [105.224.0.6
]
5 14 ms 13 ms 14 ms 224-0-13.dsl.subscriber.telkomsa.net [105.224.0.
13]
6 15 ms 15 ms 14 ms rrba-ip-hsll-1-wan.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.39
.37]
7 183 ms 183 ms 183 ms lon-ip-hsll-1-gig-0-1-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.
43.9.46]
8 182 ms 181 ms 181 ms ldn-b5-link.telia.net [213.248.94.69]
9 184 ms 201 ms 182 ms ldn-bb2-link.telia.net [213.155.136.76]
10 260 ms 260 ms 296 ms ash-bb4-link.telia.net [80.91.251.209]
11 259 ms 324 ms 311 ms ash-b1-link.telia.net [213.155.136.39]
12 267 ms 267 ms 267 ms vadata-ic-157231-ash-bb1.c.telia.net [62.115.9.6
2]
13 268 ms 291 ms 270 ms 72.21.220.47
14 268 ms 303 ms 267 ms 72.21.222.155
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 269 ms 269 ms 269 ms 216.182.224.91
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 269 ms 269 ms 268 ms ec2-54-242-175-225.compute-1.amazonaws.com [54.2
42.175.225]

Trace complete.

 

[Xman]

Still room for improvement on speed test. 4 meg line. Upload ok'ish, but download too slow.

Test conducted on 02 July 2013 08:17:03 AM

Download Speed: 1645 kbps (205.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 393 kbps (49.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 38 ms

 

[Joka69]

Change implemented between 00h15 and 02h00, should be all fixed. Something went wonky on the traffic management side. No real changes were made, just some components restarted.

P2P still abit Iffy on my side, getting speeds of 5Kbps on my 2Meg Uncapped account (given that it is office hours) on a well seeded torrent.... Jus saying....

 

[xrapidx]

I'm getting 1MB/s on 4Mb uncapped :-/

 

[frailwings]

I've noticed something really weird with my line, and I was wondering if anyone noticed this.

The first time I use my internet in the morning, I get full speed for 15-20 minutes, then it begins to drop. Anyone else notice that?

 

[VontD]

And... it's f'ed again!! HTTP downloads were happily running at full speeds... dropped back down to 40KBps.

 

[ranger]

We just lost an IPC link in Gauteng, and the redundant links (which we ordered back in November) aren't in yet.

 

[Yuu]

@ranger, please send this info to uncle RPM to put on the front page so users are aware. I fear alot of complaints even though it has been posted here won't get to everyone in time .

Thanks for letting us know. Just noticed speed drop aswell but atleast i know what is going on.

 

[VontD]

We just lost an IPC link in Gauteng, and the redundant links (which we ordered back in November) aren't in yet.

Thanks ranger. Any idea on how long this will take to fix?