Uunet Adsl Dead?

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Nalith

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Since last week wednesday I have being getting zero speed with my ADSL and almost 70% packet loss. I went from getting 40+KB on tuesday to 1KB on wednesday. Phoned UUNET support, according to them its congestion and they are working on the problem, but what I fail to see is how it can go from 40KB to 1KB overnight, unless someone changed something and stuffed it up. According to me, congestion will gradually happen, eg, 40KB today, 30KB tom, and 20KB day after etc etc. Right now my ADSL us totally useless to me, cant even browse local sites. Anyone having the same problem?
 
I've noticed the packet loss to international sites - not quite as bad as you but in the 15-40% region on a regular basis. Has your speed loss been noticed in all protocols (http, ftp, p2p, smtp, etc) or specific ones?

I know a growing number of previously die-hard uunet supporters are looking into moving over to one of the saix offerings should the situation not improve dramatically.
 
I've moved over today, it's much better with the SAIX offerings. UUNET's ping times improved last week sometime, and then I noticed my VPN to my US servers being slow as hell. Then I tried playing WoW and noticed a crap load of packet loss.

Even though it's uncapped, it feels very much like the wireless offerings I was with previously, and as many of you might have guessed, I'm fed up with unstable "good today bad another" offerings.

I'm happy with Axxess at the moment AND their ping times on WoW is much better than I expected (in the 350ms range!)
 
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I'm happy with Axxess at the moment AND their ping times on WoW is much better than I expected (in the 350ms range!)
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350??!!

Eish, I can't believe!
 
Odd, since about Wed of last week our UUNET account improved from an unusable 1400ms ping times during office hours to about 70/80ms. Sounds like they stole the bandwidth from the rest of you tho.

I would however suggest that anyone having problems try a Saix/Telkom account to verify its not the line or exchange that is at fault. We had a bad patch about a month ago where our local exchange was very congested even on Telkom accounts.
 
It's pretty ****ed yea

If i try and do anything via FTP it dies. I tried to download FreeBSD 5.4 ISO and it conced after 100Mb.. Try and resume - no response. Start the download again, flys untill 100mb - no more access.. Tell my server to download it - 15 min later (thank the lord for 100Mbps bandwidth in the US!) I resume from my HTTP server and it flys all the way to the finish..

Seeing as I downloaded on my server from the same FTP i tried using from UUNet, there is something very wrong there.

I also tried uploading a file to my local FTP - died after 2mb. Tried SCPing it to my international server, died after 3mb..

Moral of the story, if you can move from UUNet I suggest you do :P

From what I've seen

Port 80 WWW is perfect, and lightning fast.
SSH to international is flimsy at best, local its perfect though.
FTP is utterly impossible.
IMAP is OK - the instant I turned on SSL it crawled to a halt.
SMTP is also rather slow - on average sometimes it takes about a minute to deliver a short message: pathetic, even though thats using TLS and authentication
 
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Not even the heavy shaping helped UUNET. So it was only an unneccesary costful exercise. Their service is even worst then before shaping.
 
Well if UUnet don't shape up in the next 7 days consider them dropped and then I'm just going to get two 30 gig saix accounts from Imaginet. I have almost NEVER had any issues with them and love the service I get :)

Regards
Hellhound a.k.a Cerberus
 
Sad to say it but once my line was finally stable and installed ... Saix/Telkom far out performs all the other solutions I have tried. I just wish Telkom could get the costs down to an acceptable level...
 
Well I like the fact that I have uncapped but not being able to use the bandwidth is frustrating to say the least. I have decided to jump ship to Axxess a little later in the month but for now I have a new strategy! I am downloading as much as I can till then, running every posible download I can find. Been doing it for about a day and a half so I can get my moneys worth! If all goes well I should have taken 64GB in the next 20 days but it's a shame I only have 384k or I could have done some real damage! I'm only downloading game demos and videos off gamespot cos P2P doesn't work.
 
not really demonic its a pity about uunet actually. at one stage they where pretty good

i dont have a problem with company i just dissed them because the ppl that worked ripped into me. its kinda sad that their network isnt all that good because uncapped would be awesome.
 
Well I can't get onto Gamespot.com so it would seem UUNet read my post and blocked me :D But I have many other sources to download from. Not gonna mention them though :D
 
thats weird, I think they only hate you, gamespot works 100% here
 
yep well all websites work 100% only gamespot doesn't so that just sealed the deal! Axxess here I come!
 
Since this morning despite a so-called "upgrade"

http://www.uunet.co.za/_service/networknotices/default.asp?n=910

UUNET international is no longer existant and locally it is marred with timeouts. I can't even call up my overseas based e-mails.

Check this:

http://www.tcpiq.com/tcpIQ/LineSpee...ountryId=196&ConnectionId=11725&UserId=149710

I will call them one more time this morning and then bye bye UUNET. And if somebody tells me again, this failure is because of the "bad boys and girls" using p2p, I will kick somebodies ass. This excuse was a blatant lie to their customers, just to rip them off.

btw. It took me 5!!! clicks to put this post forward after 4 timeouts....and I had my line tested from Telkom, everything is in order on their side.
But now imagine...at 8.00 AM when all the corporates switching on their computers!!!
I am sick and tired!!!!
 
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