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Electric said:
HA HA HA

That's was a good one.
Still with Telkom though.
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Just checked my downloads at home via DDNS into SABnzbd,

NNTP is downloading at around 300KB/s on usenetbucket SSL ... Afrihost is getting around 1Meg/s and that's what TI usually gives when the network is stable.

I hope their engineers are working on fixing this ... no bells for them.
 
thewusman said:
Just checked my downloads at home via DDNS into SABnzbd,

NNTP is downloading at around 300KB/s on usenetbucket SSL ... Afrihost is getting around 1Meg/s and that's what TI usually gives when the network is stable.

I hope their engineers are working on fixing this ... no bells for them.
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300 (kilobytes / second) =
2.34375 Mbps

Not sure what you're trying to say here.
 
Electric said:
300 (kilobytes / second) =
2.34375 Mbps

Not sure what you're trying to say here.
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SABnzbd reports speeds under 1 megabyte in KB (kilobytes) per second, in Decimal multiples of bytes.

kilobyte per second – kBps or kB/s or KB/s – is a unit of data transfer.

On a 10 megabit line locally (if your line stats are great and your ISP is not throttling), NNTP downloads will max out at around 1 Megabyte/s or 1,000 KB/s.

That's the equivalent of around 8 Megabits which is less than 10 (max theoretical speed) once taking into account overhead losses.

So 300 KB/s is indicative of Telkom Internet way under performing and blanket throttling in effect.

So you didn't miss anything - NNTP downloads on TI at the moment for me are at 2,34 Mbps as you mentioned.

Never had this before. Since joining TI in July last year NNTP has always maxed out.
 
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Plot Twist: Telkom Gets their @#$% Together and gives us the best service and best quality product out of all ISPs....
 
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TelkomZA said:
“Telkom Internet is aware that some ADSL customers are experiencing slow speeds and high latency on some international internet traffic. Initial investigations by Telkom’s technical personnel have revealed that the fault condition is not on Telkom’s servers and that local ADSL traffic is running at normal speeds.
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Doesn't really explain the super-high pings that I and others are still seeing for local connections, though. But sort out international connectivity first, that's the thing that affects me the most.
 
What I find truly unforgiveable is the call centres who logged thousands and thousands of line faults when they should have known this was not the issue! I had a telkom tech phone me on the weekend to tell me she had checked my line and it was running 100% as far as she could tell. I then told her it was a problem with international latency. How many man-hours wasted on false fault checking because they could not communicate their way out of a paper bag. For a communications company it is a bloody joke!
That said I returned home from work hoping Telkom hand managed to unstick its head from up its arse but sadly my ping to Europe is still over 800 plus
 
SHVAK said:
How many man-hours wasted on false fault checking because they could not communicate their way out of a paper bag. For a communications company it is a bloody joke!
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I hear you there! Telkom are trying to find ways of streamlining their business... They need to start at call centre level. That is where it all starts and potentially goes skew. Rather employ less call centre agents - all of whom being competent - than all the muppets they have working there that collectively cannot assist in an efficient manner. I know someone who works there... who reckons it is unbelievable to see the level of persons manning the call centres and reckons most should not even be taking calls at all.
 
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