UUNET Problems?

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Are any UUNET users experiencing any problems? I dont see any current notices on their boards but my packet loss for the past few days seem to be astronomically high:

PING www.google.com (64.233.187.104): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 64.233.187.104: icmp_seq=0 ttl=237 time=1170.504 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.104: icmp_seq=4 ttl=237 time=3250.172 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.104: icmp_seq=7 ttl=237 time=2254.833 ms

--- www.google.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 70% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1170.504/2225.170/3250.172/849.280 ms
 
bwana v.7 said:
Are any UUNET users experiencing any problems?
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Last 3 or 4 days have been very slow. Not too bad at this moment to another overseas site, but Google fairly terminal ( note diff IP to your lookup ).

C:\>ping www.google.com

Pinging www.l.google.com [66.249.93.99] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Reply from 66.249.93.99: bytes=32 time=2335ms TTL=234
Request timed out.
Reply from 66.249.93.99: bytes=32 time=2487ms TTL=234

Ping statistics for 66.249.93.99:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 2, Lost = 2 (50% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 2335ms, Maximum = 2487ms, Average = 2411ms
:(
 
Thanks jabulani - tried pinging that address and it was the same. My main gripe is trying to use skype. Tempted to sign up quickly for a telkomInternet account with the hope that it will be better. Short term fix.
 
Pinging www.l.google.com [66.249.93.104] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 66.249.93.104: bytes=32 time=3067ms TTL=235
Reply from 66.249.93.104: bytes=32 time=3287ms TTL=235

Ping statistics for 66.249.93.104:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 2, Lost = 2 (50% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 3067ms, Maximum = 3287ms, Average = 3177ms
 
Damn - an additional saix based backup account is going to be a requirement if they dont sort things out soon.

Thanks for the feedback though. :)
 
Great - another r250 per month into someone else's pocket. :mad:
 
been getting disconnected very often lately. having to reset my router several times a day.

anyone else having these sort of problems with uunet? or is it telkom-related..?

peace
 
PostmanPot said:
been getting disconnected very often lately. having to reset my router several times a day.

anyone else having these sort of problems with uunet? or is it telkom-related..?

peace
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Uunet not doing that to me - suggest Telkom related, but still running quite slow.
 
PostmanPot said:
been getting disconnected very often lately. having to reset my router several times a day.

anyone else having these sort of problems with uunet? or is it telkom-related..?

peace
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May connection seems pretty stable so would hazard a guess and say blame telkom. UUNET still pretty lousy mind:

Ping has started ...

PING www.google.com (64.233.187.104): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 64.233.187.104: icmp_seq=0 ttl=237 time=1452.334 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.104: icmp_seq=2 ttl=237 time=1206.615 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.104: icmp_seq=3 ttl=236 time=1615.593 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.104: icmp_seq=4 ttl=236 time=1938.412 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.104: icmp_seq=8 ttl=237 time=1592.501 ms
64 bytes from 64.233.187.104: icmp_seq=9 ttl=237 time=1169.265 ms

--- www.google.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 40% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1169.265/1495.787/1938.412/261.963 ms
 
the packetloss is normal for the uunet uncapped connection, their throttling packetloss around 33%-40% for a couple of months allready.
 
Clipse said:
the packetloss is normal for the uunet uncapped connection, their throttling packetloss around 33%-40% for a couple of months allready.
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I've never seen the loss that high (>40%). Until this past week pings were much lower and skype worked almost flawlessly. Things are noticeably worse.
 
bwana v.7 said:
I've never seen the loss that high (>40%). Until this past week pings were much lower and skype worked almost flawlessly. Things are noticeably worse.
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Yes, since Tue or Wed last week. And still pretty slow compared to normal.
:(
 
It's a joke that anything above 0% packet loss is concidered acceptable, ESPECIALLY for an ADSL package. But 40%? LOL.
Even with a satellite link (which AFAIK UUnet aren't even using -- they boast nice chunky fiber-optic lines on their network structure page on their website), latency should NEVER be ANYTHING higher than 600 to ANYWHERE in the world, as far as I'm concerned.
This is just a joke. Only in South Africa (where the irony comes in, that MSI is in fact an international company -- they're just spoiling thier name by letting UUNET SA represent them with such poor international [-- their local pings and rates are fantastic] service...)
 
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Its not a problem with UUNET, their doing this on purpose. Their pushing all uncapped over a much slower pipe aswell.

ps. its MCI not MSI.
 
Clipse said:
Its not a problem with UUNET, their doing this on purpose. Their pushing all uncapped over a much slower pipe aswell.
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Yes, but thats essentially what I'm complaining about -- UUNet Uncapped accounts dont come cheap. UUnet must be raking in the cash because the international bandwidth speeds are so slow that the amount of international bandwidth transferred on those accounts in relation to how many accounts they are getting paid for... unless I'm missing something? But I concur with your "it's not a problem with uunet", because essentially you also contradicted yourself by saying how they're pushing uncapped clients onto a slower pipe. Who's "they"? UUNet. Therefore it is UUnet that is to blame, and they are the problem?

Clipse said:
ps. its MCI not MSI.
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Of course - woops my bad, generating negative publicity towards the wrong company; but pfft its not like MSI is any good either :P
 
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Clipse said:
Its not a problem with UUNET, their doing this on purpose. Their pushing all uncapped over a much slower pipe aswell.
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Please tell us more - maybe something usable as ammo to kick up a fuss, if it is really the case.

Thanks.
 
jabulani said:
Please tell us more - maybe something usable as ammo to kick up a fuss, if it is really the case.

Thanks.
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It's pretty obvious -- do a traceroute to any international IP and as soon as it reaches the international gw router, latency and packet-loss skyrocket. Some heavy shaping there. What more do you need?
 
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