Telkom Internet Uncapped User Feedback.

[Cassady]

Anyone else having issues tonight in the Cape Town area? Had no issues past 2 months now suddenly last 2 days, I cant even load speed test. 4mb Uncapped TI on 6mb line. Usage trackers says I have done 52gb this month. :erm:

4mb uncapped in Paarl. Just did the speedtest again: Ping 665 - 270kbps download - slightly quicker up...

Here's the thing though - I also just watched a 9min long Youtube clip in HD - streamed perfectly, no lag. Whilst my one iTunes 27,3mb download still has 29 minutes to go, and has already been downloading for the past 35 mins.

I thought I understood the Internet. Clearly I don't. I cannot get my head around the above.

 

[thewusman]

Whoohoooo beat this

A detailed image for this result can be found here:http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/610153985

Test Date: Aug 12, 2013 8:44 PM
Download: 0.13 Mbps
Upload: 0.54 Mbps
Ping: 920 ms
Connection Type: Wi-Fi
Server: Cape Town
External IP: 105.226.84.251
Internal IP: 192.168.0.2
Latitude: -33.9491
Longitude: 25.5533
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&q=-33.949137,25.553339h

 

[MickeyD]

Whoohoooo beat this

A detailed image for this result can be found here:http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/610153985

Test Date: Aug 12, 2013 8:44 PM
Download: 0.13 Mbps
Upload: 0.54 Mbps
Ping: 920 ms
Connection Type: Wi-Fi
Server: Cape Town
External IP: 105.226.84.251
Internal IP: 192.168.0.2
Latitude: -33.9491
Longitude: 25.5533
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&q=-33.949137,25.553339h

Have you tried with a direct cable connection yet?

 

[Cassady]

Whoohoooo beat this

A detailed image for this result can be found here:http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/610153985

Test Date: Aug 12, 2013 8:44 PM
Download: 0.13 Mbps
Upload: 0.54 Mbps
Ping: 920 ms
Connection Type: Wi-Fi
Server: Cape Town
External IP: 105.226.84.251
Internal IP: 192.168.0.2
Latitude: -33.9491
Longitude: 25.5533
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&q=-33.949137,25.553339h

I'll give it a go!



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:wtf:


Would love to now where that "other" 6% are, that I'm currently faster than....

[EDIT]

Here be the same Speedtest, to the same Telkom Cape Town server, but this time through Afrihost as ISP...

 

[Cassady]

Have you tried with a direct cable connection yet?

As in - between pc and modem/router?

 

[Dark Cloud]

Anyone else having issues tonight in the Cape Town area? Had no issues past 2 months now suddenly last 2 days, I cant even load speed test. 4mb Uncapped TI on 6mb line. Usage trackers says I have done 52gb this month. :erm:

View attachment 64685 <--- TI (and as u can see my line is synced @ 6mb)
View attachment 64687 <--- Afrihost

Yip - last 3 days have been terribad - 2mb uncapped line, normally no problems. Last few days - I kid you not - 0.06 mbps down 0.15 up. Its super frustrating... (CT city center)



What the hell???

 

[Spizz]

Crawwwwwwwwwling in Hermanus on a 4mb account/line



Jeebus, what a crock. Cancelling tomorrow.

EDIT: Tried again thinking it couldn't be so bad twice....



Ja, sure

 

[thewusman]

Have you tried with a direct cable connection yet?

Yes. Macbook on Thunderbolt display via Gigabit ethernet.

You honestly think the wifi is the problem ? Shame on you !

Consider yourself blessed that you're in PE and have no TI problems.

Fwiw I've never seen wifi that bad.

ASUS N66U running custom Merlin f/w. A Ferrari amongst routers.

 

[xrapidx]

Tomorrow it's back to hellopeter and the various other platforms, probably for weeks again.

 

[pezulu]

Centurion seems as bad.
Called TI earlier, had ports reset, everything checked from their side, and they say everything seems fine.

This is a 4mb uncapped line:

Cape Town server
http://speedtest.ookla.com/result/2256403573.png

Johannesburg server
http://speedtest.ookla.com/result/2256410056.png

International:
http://speedtest.ookla.com/result/2256412315.png

Speedtest.net to Rosebank
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2896549954

 

[xrapidx]

I can't even get those images to load.

 

[Electric]

PE is skrewed now.

2mb line
From being fine to this:

 

[cavedog]

Very very bad. Started last night with EXTREMELY high latency..... latency to Germany of 9000ms......... Yeah league of legends was HELL....

Tonight too....

My guess..... Congestion again..........

 

[Cassady]

Very very bad. Started last night with EXTREMELY high latency..... latency to Germany of 9000ms......... Yeah league of legends was HELL....

Tonight too....

My guess..... Congestion again..........

Communism. That's what we need.

Some Komrad dividing all Souf-Efriken internet users equally, amongst all the various ISP's - and then stokvelling the selected few (lottery winners) into 1 month of glorious, unadulterated, eye-bleeding download uber-heaven (whilst the rest lag in the stone-age of dial-up tones) - before the giant rotation, where the next batch get to sip from the sweet nectar of download blitzkrieg....

Or, like, whatever.
[Where be Ranger?]

 

[MickeyD]

Telkom... WTF have you just done ????

 

[shanezn]

Yowzers ! Everything's gone for a ball of $h!t now.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2896598171.png

 

[Cassady]

Yowzers ! Everything's gone for a ball of $h!t now.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2896598171.png

In my mind's eye - I see a Telkom techie, somewhere, frantically bailing water out of a recently-flooded server room, using a combination of his thermos flask cup and his Telkom-emblazoned baseball cap...

 

[shanezn]

YouTube streaming is 100% though :/

Streaming this at 480p, no buffering at all.

[video=youtube;40kZlsqIEUg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40kZlsqIEUg[/video]

 

[Dark Cloud]

Thats wierd. I can stream that fine. Everything else is balls though

 

[shanezn]

I suspect they've prioritised traffic, ie. browsing and streaming, but dl's have taken a back seat.