Vodacom Problems: Slow Throughput, trying to Connect, DNS, High Latency

[FairShare]

This was between 7pm and 10pm. Round about 11ish everything seemed to stabilize.

Same experience on this side last night and now more of the same in the last half an hour or so.

 

[dex_10]

Same experience on this side last night and now more of the same in the last half an hour or so.

Yep, it seems like we are starting to go the slow route again...

 

[Iam3G]

Same experience on this side last night and now more of the same in the last half an hour or so.

Yep, it seems like we are starting to go the slow route again...

Dejavu...

Got some ups and downs today here in Somerset West, even a disconnect and 619's for about 30mins or so(which never happens here!)

 

[sand_man]

Been consistent here in Norwood but must say the evenings are slower than usual where a couple of months ago it was the day time that was slower than evening.... The games Voda plays.... ??...

Download Speed: 2157 kbps (269.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 108 kbps (13.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

http://www.speedtest.net/result/317714127.png

 

[Bedford]

Reply from 74.125.39.147: bytes=2 time=2000ms TTL=242
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 74.125.39.147: bytes=2 time=900ms TTL=242
Reply from 74.125.39.147: bytes=2 time=437ms TTL=242
Reply from 74.125.39.147: bytes=2 time=700ms TTL=242
Reply from 74.125.39.147: bytes=2 time=428ms TTL=242
Reply from 74.125.39.147: bytes=2 time=468ms TTL=242
Request timed out.
Reply from 74.125.39.147: bytes=2 time=609ms TTL=242
Reply from 74.125.39.147: bytes=2 time=453ms TTL=242
Reply from 74.125.39.147: bytes=2 time=421ms TTL=242
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 74.125.39.147: bytes=2 time=900ms TTL=242
Reply from 74.125.39.147: bytes=2 time=406ms TTL=242
Reply from 74.125.39.147: bytes=2 time=453ms TTL=242
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 74.125.39.147: bytes=2 time=437ms TTL=242
Reply from 74.125.39.147: bytes=2 time=453ms TTL=242
Reply from 74.125.39.147: bytes=2 time=500ms TTL=242
Reply from 74.125.39.147: bytes=2 time=468ms TTL=242
Reply from 74.125.39.147: bytes=2 time=2000ms TTL=242
Request timed out.
Reply from 74.125.39.147: bytes=2 time=420ms TTL=242
Reply from 74.125.39.147: bytes=2 time=437ms TTL=242
Reply from 74.125.39.147: bytes=2 time=453ms TTL=242


sigh....

A gaming APN, ill sell my left kidney for that IF there is reliability. I dont want 10mb down and 2mb up i want a stable, reliable connection. Even though its wireless there has been days where its shown that it can be 100% perfect. All i want is to get on play some poker, play some Eve online and then go to bed. Man the other day i lost it right on a crucial hand this connection goes bi-polar and ended up costing me alot and i doubt VC is into offering paybacks of cash lost.

 

[UtianG]

Connectivity seem so be much more stable since yesterday.

Last night was heaven ... was connected from 20h00 till 01h00 with NO DISCONNECTS at all .... 1 or 2 timeouts and speeds averaging 1800kb/s DL and 340 UL

I'm impressed

Just hope it can be consistently reliable ...

This morning, so far so good - but im expecting some disconnects due to bad reception in our office.

How are the rest of yall doing?

Parow/PPDB/Internet APN/Novatel USB Stick

 

[ginggs]

Last night was quite bad for me, when browsing websites often the images would stall and I would have to refresh the page. Then I'd get a message from Vodacom's proxy that it was unable to resolve the web server's name, although I was able to resolve the name using the Vodacom DNS servers I was assigned. Their proxy must use a different DNS server. It was like this from about 21:00 til after midnight.
N1 City/PPDB/HSDPA-3.6/Internet APN/Huawei E220

 

[evolution]

£$%^ght

Bloody hell, what on earth is going on again tonight?! First in Century City speed was so terrible I might as well have been using a 2400bps modem, then I finally get home and nothing zilch doesn't even connect in plattekloof *sigh*.................

 

[pkid]

In Durban North with a PPDB using whatever the default APN is with a E220 USB modem. International sites are SLOOOOW. Just used the Neotel speedtest and got +- 750 kb/s and 290 kb/s up. Speedtest.net gives me 300 kb/s down and 139 kb/s up. So why is browsing so slow?? Youtube videos don't load and Gmail takes forever?

 

[fonoi]

I cannot connect to www.turbine.com or any associated site, neither can I connect to www.ddo-europe.com.

This has been for around 3 days now.

 

[ginggs]

Been downloading my email for the last 20 minutes, getting about 90kbps down.
Connected to MyBB, getting 114kbps.
I have -75dBm 3G signal and according to the modem I'm currently on HSDPA.

N1 City/PPDB/HSDPA-3.6/Internet APN/Huawei E220

 

[ginggs]

I cannot connect to www.turbine.com or any associated site, neither can I connect to www.ddo-europe.com.

Looks like Vodacom's DNS servers are stuffed:

>nslookup www.turbine.com
*** Can't find server name for address 196.207.40.167: Server failed
*** Can't find server name for address 196.207.40.165: Server failed
*** Default servers are not available
Server: UnKnown
Address: 196.207.40.167

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to UnKnown timed-out

OpenDNS is able to resolve www.turbine.com just fine:

>nslookup www.turbine.com 208.67.222.222
Server: resolver1.opendns.com
Address: 208.67.222.222

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: wtbigip-public.turbine.com
Address: 206.16.13.71
Aliases: www.turbine.com

 

[Colin62]

dns lookups failling here too, in Hilton, KZN. Logged a fault, and it came right just in time to post this before I go to bed.

 

[SaiyanZ]

My Vodacom connection has been crap here the last few days and also crap on and off since I got connected 3 months ago.

My view is that internet service providers in SA try to save money by spending the bare minimum to actually giving us what we pay for. They spread the crapload around the country so that people will still have little bits of decent connect at times to prevent mass complaints and cancellation of contracts. Just think of how many thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, they must be saving by purchasing less bulk bandwidth and when there is problems due to congestion they say it was because of the malfunction of some server or give some other excuse.

 

[Iam3G]

Whatever it was, it seems to have passed for me. Everything seemed normal last night. Will see again tonight.

 

[hsdpasa]

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[AirWolf]

Internet apn was unresponsive, so swithced to internetvpn. Below some tests on internetvpn:

C:\Users\???>ping www.google.co.za -t

Pinging www.l.google.com [74.125.39.104] with 32 bytes of data:
...
Ping statistics for 74.125.39.104:
Packets: Sent = 49, Received = 40, Lost = 9 (18% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 307ms, Maximum = 1825ms, Average = 659ms

speed.vodacom.co.za
Download Speed: 580 kbps (72.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 96 kbps (12 KB/sec transfer rate)

Looks like some issues in Durban - on the speedtest.net site I appear to be in Johannesburg.


speedtest.net
Johannesburg
Download: 417 kb/s
Upload: 92 kb/s
Ping: 380 ms

 

[internaut]

Im getting this again:

Network Error (tcp_error)

A communication error occurred: "Operation timed out"
The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time.

For assistance, contact your network support team.

International only though, local comes up immediately.

 

[fonoi]

One week now and I still cant connect to turbine.com. can vodacom 3G perhaps give me your take on why this is?

 

[AirWolf]

One week now and I still cant connect to turbine.com. can vodacom 3G perhaps give me your take on why this is?

Works fine for me.

Which OS, and browser are you using?