Verizon latency

[gregmcc]

Just received this - might explain sopme of the slow response everyone is experiencing:

Dear Network Notice Subscriber

We are going to be experiencing the following.

POINTS OF IMPACT:
Great Westerford - Cape Town
SAIX

SCHEDULED TIME: 8 Nov 2007 22:30:00
CAUSE OF PROBLEM: Circuit Upgrade
SYMPTOMS EXPERIENCED: High Latency
SEVERITY: Critical
STATUS: Attending
ATTENDING: Verizon Engineers
ADDITIONAL: Verizon Business will be performing an upgrade on our peering link to Saix. This will be completed by Telkom and Verizon business Engineers at 22:30:00 tonight. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

 

[Johand]

I don't know what is going on but I'm slowly getting very fed up with Verizon. We pay a premium for unshaped international bandwidth for VPN use but we just have to many "slow downs". Telkom unshaped seems to be cheaper these days as well.

 

[PCTECH]

Telkom might very well be cheaper BUT it doesn't work! Believe me, I've had ongoing problems for 5 weeks and they admitted this morning they don't have a clue how to fix it. I must phone my ISP and ask my ISP to log a fault with SAIX. I ask you with tears in my eyes, when will anything in this country work like it should?