Vox Telecom Fatpipe

[requiem]

I just called the support desk. Even though speedtest is fine, NNTP is fine, Vox has crippled torrents intentionally - the guys wants me to turn my modem off and on to see if it will help.

Oh - yes, no one who knows anything is available, I can wait for the advanced team to get back to me tomorrow.


What a sad day for what was the best ISP.

 

[sand_man]

Tried using one of my other VOX accounts and...

 

[Soul Assassin]

Tried using one of my other VOX accounts and...

I think that might just be because people are asleep now, less strain on the network.

 

[roland_ZA]

Downloading windows updates is extremely slow, getting around 7-15kB/s on 4Mbps Fatpipe account and it's been like this the whole evening. If I switch to my Afrihost or Axxess accounts the same downloads fly at 400kB/s plus.

 

[sand_man]

I think that might just be because people are asleep now, less strain on the network.

Lol, surely not?

It was tanking at around 80kbps on the one account and as soon as I switched over to the other account it shot up to 900+kbps...

 

[Soul Assassin]

Lol, surely not?

It was tanking at around 80kbps on the one account and as soon as I switched over to the other account it shot up to 900+kbps...

Didn't know you tested back to back, that's slightly good news then. I hope it's just a minor hiccup and not what I fear.

 

[dews]

We are paying double what we would be paying for a uncapped account, and now this fatpipe is also shaped.

Or atleast that what it seems to me.
Youtube/speedtest is 100%
HTTP is 100%
torrents is shaped to 10%.

WTF

WTF

 

[arni1954]

6 am - 10 kb speed . The best company became the worst of all .

 

[PostManPat]

Seems to be a jhb issue. Why don't you guys just use VPNs instead of complaining every minute?

 

[ripclaw]

It's also a DBN issue

 

[arni1954]

Seems to be a jhb issue. Why don't you guys just use VPNs instead of complaining every minute?

Yes you are right . I wonder where the idea that the ISP is expected to supply you the product which you paid for came from .

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

And dead again this morning, what is going on Vox? Why are you shaping torrents into the ground on FatPipe?

And just a reminder if you try and get cute with FUP's etc:

 

[wingnut771]

It's also a DBN issue

No DBN IPC, routes through JHB IPC as well.

 

[akescpt]

ita amzing how the same scenario plays out time and time again. the torrents are usually the first to go.

 

[Prof.Merlin]

I think WA just died again:

➜ ~ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=134.286 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=133.866 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=54 time=131.257 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=54 time=135.131 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 6
^C
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 50.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 131.257/133.635/135.131/1.447 ms

Web africa is fine:

➜ ~ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=41.124 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=8.723 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=8.186 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=8.483 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=54 time=8.654 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=54 time=8.925 ms
^C
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 8.186/14.016/41.124/12.125 ms

 

[requiem]

I think WA just died again:


Web africa is fine:

Yeah - had to logon to my backup WA account. VOX is timing out on browsing.

 

[Seeyou]

Zero problems in Cape Town. (touch wood)

 

[Drifter]

Yes, browsing was fine 20 mins ago, dead now.

 

[Fox1]

Browsing is totally borked.

 

[Groenewalt]

The Best internet around