Telkom LTE problems

[Elax]

My LTE is back up to speed again

 

[Snyper564]

same

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

same

I will wait for this evening, and see how it performs them. If it is okay then, then all is good.

 

[Gudnews]

The pain continues! Man was I living the good life and I guess I took it for granted. SMH.

 

[Unigma]

Add Rain LTE. As erratic as a fox terrier on dope. Also essential dead for long periods. Everything says the internet is on but mo data trickles through. Other times just dead when is was fast seconds before. Sometimes a router reboot helps other times not.
Totally untrustworthy.
And no explanation from Rain, of course.

Yep, I tested Rain a moment ago (10 April @ 00H55) ....Download speed = 0.1Mbps = 100Kbps??? It REALLY reminds me of 1995/6 with my US Robotice dial-up modem.

Of course support (at) rain.co.za won't reply (as expected) or offer any reason for this!

 

[|tera|]

I don't know what's happening in my area. I've got a nightly bundle and like clockwork, each night at 00:00 my download speed is throttled to 250Kbps.
After 1am, roughly 1h30, my connection is restored to a standard speed I usually get.

It's bloody annoying.

 

[Gudnews]

I don't know what's happening in my area. I've got a nightly bundle and like clockwork, each night at 00:00 my download speed is throttled to 250Kbps.
After 1am, roughly 1h30, my connection is restored to a standard speed I usually get.

It's bloody annoying.

I suspect the same thing is happening to me. Seems like the night data shaping era is upon us.

 

[|tera|]

I suspect the same thing is happening to me. Seems like the night data shaping era is upon us.

I hope not

 

[Lucas Buck]

I suspect the same thing is happening to me. Seems like the night data shaping era is upon us.

I see that you posted in this thread link. This is the reason why I stopped buying the night surfer only data from telkom.

 

[Gudnews]

I hope not

I'm not sure yet and especially after seeing this as well:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1248517540554387457

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1248518021859115008

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1248555795144421379

My issues only started when this WACS outage happened. These tweets are a bit confusing though because the outage was fixed. Is this they way of saying that they haven't yet recovered from it? Or are they oblivious to the fact that the outage was fixed? When I wake up at 06h40 to bring my ship to shore I see some nice figures on the speed meter (up to 65Mbits in bursts) but a speed test doesn't back up those figures. I remember last year they fixed the issue after another cable break, I believe it was this one:

Great news for South Africa’s slow Internet – Cable repair ship leaves harbour

The ship tasked with fixing broken submarine fibre cables has left Cape Town harbour.

mybroadband.co.za

The shutdown is probably affecting operations it's safe to assume.

 

[Gudnews]

I see that you posted in this thread link. This is the reason why I stopped buying the night surfer only data from telkom.

It just sucks that they are to the only game in town when in it comes to a large prepaid night data bundle.