Terrible IS speeds

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Anyone else experiencing really bad IS speeds on both local and international?

My international downloads have been averaging 5 - 10kb for the past 4 days :mad:
My local is also quite bad, for example the forums took about 15 secs to load completely...
 
I am also getting bad speeds, fluctuates all the time
 
IS speeds/reliability have been terrible since September 2005.

They are planning a bandwidth upgrade in February 2006. Hopefully this will improve things.


" As part of IS's ambition to become a “next-generation telco”, the company is procuring and landing its own bandwidth wherever possible, “instead of being at the mercy of Telkom”, which, it says, is causing significant growing and learning pains.

To meet this, IS plans to invest in two more satellite hubs (costing R8 million each), but these links will only be available in late February.

This will take IS's total international bandwidth to 1GB, says MacRobert."
http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/telecoms/2005/0511011118.asp?S=Internet&A=INT&O=FPIN
 
fine here all weekend too. just the usual lag now during the day but after 5 it'll speed up to normal
 
International 5 thread download from podcast.rickygervais.com is running at 15.5 kB/s average. [16H00 .... should finish around 16H30].

We have a 1024 ADLS line with the 5 IP's.

I'm going to do a test from ftp.is as soon as I find something to download. Lets see the 106kB's that we're supposed to be getting.
 
Okay - the download from IS's FTP site STATS are:
Size = 91,611KB.
Average = 41.06 KB/s

On a 1024 line to IS with nothing in between the line and the IS site except for IS [and our proxy server].
/me is going to remove the proxy server as a possible bottleneck tomorrow and try this again.
 
Everyone with hassles, make 100% sure you force the following two dns servers, it helps alot with speeding up http requests and the "famous" document not found issue.

Primary:
Name: dnscache1.is.co.za
Address: 168.210.2.2

Secondary:
Name: dnscache2.is.co.za
Address: 196.14.239.2
 
During the day i find IS almost unusable, I cant even play DOTA games with it (which i can do on a 56k modem). Even local traffic and traffic to IS seems shaped to hell.
 
KillerX said:
During the day i find IS almost unusable, I cant even play DOTA games with it (which i can do on a 56k modem). Even local traffic and traffic to IS seems shaped to hell.
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Dota server you play on is hosted on Saix afaik, you will get a terrible connection thanks to SAIX.
 
IS Business 512 DSL line was just like dialup speeds, sometimes with local pings of 1000ms Oh boy what a slow day
Thanks for the DNS Clipse, they are set.

Cheers from George
 
For business use i can safely say IS is no good!!!!

We used it last month a it was a total waste, we had to make use of a SAIX account to get our work done.
 
Clipse said:
Everyone with hassles, make 100% sure you force the following two dns servers, it helps alot with speeding up http requests and the "famous" document not found issue.

Primary:
Name: dnscache1.is.co.za
Address: 168.210.2.2

Secondary:
Name: dnscache2.is.co.za
Address: 196.14.239.2
Click to expand...

probably taking the prize for the most unintelligent question, but how do i do this?

I keep getting the dns not found error today
 
Clipse said:
Everyone with hassles, make 100% sure you force the following two dns servers, it helps alot with speeding up http requests and the "famous" document not found issue.

Primary:
Name: dnscache1.is.co.za
Address: 168.210.2.2

Secondary:
Name: dnscache2.is.co.za
Address: 196.14.239.2
Click to expand...
And i have another question - my router has these DNS servers already set dynamically yet i also have the same DNS error problems. How can setting them statically make any difference???
 
Odd.. Not getting any document errors with these 2 dns servers, are you sure the time you had them assigned automaticly it happened?

Remember you could be bouncing from many dns servers at the time of errors, make sure their static and give it a go.
 
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