"The connection has timed out"

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Hi, every time I try to open a new page on the internet this message show "The connection has timed out"....

I'm using: Vista Ultimate 64bit
Firefox
384kb line speed
Webafrica Prepaid internation

This has never happened before, anyone know why all of a sudden this keeps happening?
Any solutions??:(
 
ADSL is a disaster at the moment for international browsing, that may have something to do with it :(
 
Ok, because its only my international browsing thats timing out...
Thanks man, hopefully thats the problem...
Enjoy. :)
 
I thought the SAIX problems were all sorted out? I'm still getting timeouts on almost all int'l sites (reload a few times and then, maybe you get it). We've got them end of the month blues.
 
I have never had such a bad end of month experience before. Every single international site is failing to load on the first attempt --- some are taking four or five attempts (and then failing to load completely). :( This btw is on pre-paid SAIX.
 
Oh well, only another two days, then TELKOM can start telling us that the problem is confined to `abusers' overdoing it on the first few days of the month. As far as I'm concerned TELKOM consists of a bunch of self abusers.
 
DNS issue?

I can't even ping Verizon's 196.7.0.138 server from here...

However, they claim it's fine and running.

Please let me know if any of you can ping / not ping this server.

What about 196.7.142.132? I can ping it from most places, but not all
 
Last few months at the end of the month my WA prepaid int account is constantly timing out...

While the idea of prepaid is great and it's affordable, whats the point if you have to try a page 6 or 7 times before it actually loads?

Though given the current situation with int in general it's worse. But this is a common issue I've been facing last few months at month end on prepaid..
 
I've spoken with the DNS guys at Verizon.

Apparently Telkom routers have been using Verizon's caching DNS servers (196.7.0.138) instead of using SAIX routers.

Verizon has now decided to block all traffic across a wide range of IP address, and have apparently reduced load on their server by about 70%.

They say that they reserve the right to block any traffic to their DNS server as it's only a caching server.
 
henkk78 said:
I've spoken with the DNS guys at Verizon.

Apparently Telkom routers have been using Verizon's caching DNS servers (196.7.0.138) instead of using SAIX routers.

Verizon has now decided to block all traffic across a wide range of IP address, and have apparently reduced load on their server by about 70%.

They say that they reserve the right to block any traffic to their DNS server as it's only a caching server.
Click to expand...

than i wonder what telkom is going to do now:mad:
interational browsing is painfully slow:sick:
would a proxy setting help for the moment?
 
I'm still getting this exactly. I have had adsl for more than a year now, and it has never been this bad.

My friend in Bloem has the same type of adsl account as me (cybersmart SAIX 384kbps), and is not affected. I'm in Stellenbosch.

I wonder if this is only on SAIX shaped accounts?
 
Connecting via WA from Durbanville

Pinging www.sky.com [195.173.72.124] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 195.173.72.124:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),


Pinging www.sony.com [160.33.26.10] with 32 bytes of dat

Reply from 160.33.26.10: bytes=32 time=364ms TTL=238
Reply from 160.33.26.10: bytes=32 time=364ms TTL=238
Reply from 160.33.26.10: bytes=32 time=363ms TTL=238
Reply from 160.33.26.10: bytes=32 time=363ms TTL=238

Ping statistics for 160.33.26.10:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 363ms, Maximum = 364ms, Average = 363ms


Some international dead, some perfect - what gives?
 
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