Vumatel Data Service providers - Performances

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Douw123

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Vumatel is coming to our area, and there seems to be a great deal of uncertainty of which data providers provide a good service - ie no shaping, low latency, fair use policy, actual data speeds for international traffic. There seems to be a lot of info on test done on the Vuma network but all those test seems to be for local servers (!), which pretty much is meaningless. What is needed is some database here of speed tests (data speed and ping) to international servers for different service providers to show which service providers are really worth pursuing. Cool ideas seems to be the leader in uncapped, Vox seems to be a leader in unshaped capped, and WA seems to have speed issues. If you have a Vumatel connection - can you please post international speedtest results here and add service provider and package? (Maybe using www.speedtest.net testing to chicago and london?) Thank you.
 
I am on Vox 20/20 product - all good, except international uploads (ie Dropbox, Flickr, etc).

The international uploads typically peak at 2-4Mbps second, very occasionally hits 20Mbps. Does not seem to be dependent on time of day (getting bad speed even after 11PM). Have a ticket with VOX, they are investigating.
 
Thanks for that tdk. This is helpful as there is no reason then to pay for a symmetrical (20/20) until they can perform. Pls give feedback when they have resolved, it would be interesting. How is your international latency (ping) ?
 
Don't know at this moment, will post stats tonight.
 
That is why I have a ticket with VOX....but an accurate summary!
 
wonder why the international speeds are so low on VOX. Really strange. Is it a backbone issue. SA speeds are good though.
 
Yeah definitely not a vuma issue. If it was then the local performance would suck too.
 
Agree with the feelings here.

The international download side is not much of a concern since most downloads I do is running across multiple connections and easily saturate the 20Mbps, as well as the fact that most parts of international sites are cached locally or on edge servers. On Netflix I get a steady stream at about 10Mbps over VPN and the quality is more than acceptable (looks like about 720p-ish).

You really feel it on the upload side though, since typically a single connection and caching does not apply. Will keep on hammering them every day and see what comes of it.
 
Cool, thanks very much for that tdk. This is very helpful. Just for interest, here is my ADSL 10 mbs also with VOX. http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4826871424. Ping very similar, international download same range, obviously the upload is going to be different.

I was hoping to be blown away with the speeds from Vox on Vuma. Heck it is fibre and all! :-(

Anyone else getting better international speeds from other data providers on the Vuma network? How about a "London" speed test from Cool Ideas or WA on Vuma?
 
Yes, I get the feeling they've shoe-horned the fibre service onto the back-end infrastructure they use to service ADSL customers. I've had one evening where I actually touched the 20Mbps on upload, but sadly not again.
 
Spent about 2 hours on the phone with VOX yesterday, international upload speeds are now in the region of 15-17Mbps - will see if it maintains during the next week.
 
Forgot to add that the action on their side that made the big difference was to "clear the leases", for future reference.
 
tdk said:
Forgot to add that the action on their side that made the big difference was to "clear the leases", for future reference.
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Sounds like they reset the core. Are Vox poaching openweb staff now?
 
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