Vox Telecom Fatpipe

No problems here at all. Streaming, downloading - all full speed. Also Cape Town area.
 
Gavin107 said:
Interesting there is such as difference between Speedtest servers. Happy again, this is as good as it gets where I live :)

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Speed test servers can't be trusted. Sure it's an indication of line speed but results cannot be analyzed in isolation.

Most download managers indicate current speeds, IDM for example.

Networx is a handy, light weight tool that will also give you a realtime indication of traffic on your line.
 
AfricanTech said:
@voxy
@cvanwie

I'm located in Cape Town (Pinelands) - my Vox account is currently unusable - can't even get to speedtest.net

As per the above, I'm not the only one.
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Hey guys,

I've had a look at the IPC from Friday morning until just now when I saw the message (btw thank you for raising this issue!!). The IPC is not the reason for this issue that you guys encountered. There was loads of bandwidth available.

I'll check with the core network team on Monday and see if I can get some more information as to what happened.

@Cape Tonians: Please confirm the problem is not happening any longer, thanks!

Regards,
Chris
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Chris Van Wie
Solution Architect
Vox Telecom Limited
 
Just on a side note, anyone not using a download manager, I would highly recommend IDM - Internet download manager.

I am yet to use a better download manager. It's not free but it's well worth the price of admission.

https://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/download.html

EDIT: Made a short video comparing a dedicated download manager with Chrome's embedded download manager...

[video=youtube;KODJFRDDTxc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KODJFRDDTxc&feature=youtu.be[/video]
 
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cvanwie said:
Hey guys,

I've had a look at the IPC from Friday morning until just now when I saw the message (btw thank you for raising this issue!!). The IPC is not the reason for this issue that you guys encountered. There was loads of bandwidth available.

I'll check with the core network team on Monday and see if I can get some more information as to what happened.

@Cape Tonians: Please confirm the problem is not happening any longer, thanks!

Regards,
Chris
_____________________________

Chris Van Wie
Solution Architect
Vox Telecom Limited
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@cvanwie
It definitely was something with IPC. I have Smokeping running to my BNG. It routes out my line, over VOX IPC, to 1st VOX core ip, then return through VOX IPC to Telkom BNG router. This is a great test to see whether the ISP's IPC is congested or not, or there is packet loss ect. I do this for multiple ISP accounts and it is very interesting to see the problems on the different ISP's IPC links. You don't want to see what Afrihost's look like!

Anyway, here is the graph from last night:
Screenshot from 2015-07-19 09-39-38.jpg

And this is how that graph get it's data:
Code: 
traceroute to 197.245.37.1 (197.245.37.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  router.heaven.ctwug.za.net (172.18.7.33)  0.429 ms  0.533 ms  0.685 ms
 2  * * *
 3  41.193.121.9 (41.193.121.9)  35.117 ms  35.133 ms  35.481 ms
 4  41.193.121.10 (41.193.121.10)  15.020 ms  16.601 ms  17.795 ms
 5  209.203.1.41 (209.203.1.41)  19.743 ms  20.448 ms  21.185 ms
 6  209.203.1.40 (209.203.1.40)  23.433 ms  7.372 ms  9.045 ms
 7  41.193.121.13 (41.193.121.13)  9.814 ms  11.000 ms  12.472 ms
 8  dsl-197-245-37-1.voxdsl.co.za (197.245.37.1)  14.458 ms  15.601 ms  17.311 ms
Hops are as follow:
1) my DSL router
2) BNG - Telkom's new policy to drop ICMP packets on Alcaltel Lucent BGN routers suck, ps. this would be same IP as #8
3) VOX IPC VOX side
4) VOX IPC CORE
5) VOX CORE
6) VOX IPC CORE
7) VOX IPC Telkom side
8) Telkom Alcatel Lucent BNG router, that connects to my DSLAM

Now I didnt capture a traceroute at the time of latency last night, but it literally started at hop 3 in the above traceroute.

None of my other ISP accounts had the issue at the same time VOX did.
 
cvanwie said:
Hey guys,

I've had a look at the IPC from Friday morning until just now when I saw the message (btw thank you for raising this issue!!). The IPC is not the reason for this issue that you guys encountered. There was loads of bandwidth available.

I'll check with the core network team on Monday and see if I can get some more information as to what happened.

@Cape Tonians: Please confirm the problem is not happening any longer, thanks!

Regards,
Chris
_____________________________

Chris Van Wie
Solution Architect
Vox Telecom Limited
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Thanks man.

All seems 100s today
 
I'm currently on a 200+800 package from an IS based provider, and just curious if the following is a good idea

- buying 2 x 100GB specials at R164 each
- buying 1 x Gig4Gig Bolt on uncapped

So, I'll have my router dial up on the Bolt On uncapped at 6PM and swop over to one of the 100GB capped packaged at 6AM.
That should mean I have a 200GB "Day time" as I currently have, but longer "uncapped" hours during the week and ofcourse full weekend.

What am I missing, or is this a decent way to get good bandwidth from Box?
 
sand_man said:
25gig4gig bolt-on at R148... + 200gb fatpipe (2x100gb) = R476 in total...
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Dunno how people are still talking about bolt on. You cannot buy it on the website, standalone or in conjunction with any package?

Please enlighten me. Bolt on seems to be dead for anyone except existing users. RIP.
 
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