WACS and SAT-3 suffer cable breaks between Congo and Cameroon

[Apogee]

One thing to note is Seacom is Registered in Mauritius so there IP blocks ofter appear to be in Mauritius on AFRINIC/look up when traffic isn't necessarily actually going via Mauritius.

As far as I can see it is definitely being routed through Mauritius. (Increased latency on hop #6 and #7)



Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.2134]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Windows\System32>tracert mail.dotnetwork2.co.za

Tracing route to mail.dotnetwork2.co.za [41.223.175.30]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 1 ms 2 ms 192.168.88.1
2 6 ms 4 ms 5 ms 196.4.87.41
3 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms 196.4.93.7
4 5 ms 6 ms 9 ms xe-0-3-0.pp-01-jnb.za.seacomnet.com [105.16.6.37]
5 5 ms 5 ms 8 ms ce-3-0-2.er-02-jnb.za.seacomnet.com [105.16.28.10]
6 201 ms 201 ms 202 ms 105.22.45.38
7 * 241 ms 241 ms 41.223.175.30

Trace complete.

Last week it was being routed through the USA and back, but then changed to Mauritius.

None of the other networks use international routes for this JHB - JHB mail traffic.

 

[AfriNatic]

No, I only see it on speedtests.

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And your tcp window scaling is okay with windows?

 

[wingnut771]

And your tcp window scaling is okay with windows?

I get line speed on single thread EU RD DL through same browser.

 

[AfriNatic]

I get line speed on single thread EU RD DL through same browser.

Hmmm I don't have a server in KZN to test with now but this is from a Windows server I have in Teraco JB1. I'm curious what Cloudflare is doing differently compared to us because we got extra capacity to deal with the WACS issue.

 

[wingnut771]

Hmmm I don't have a server in KZN to test with now but this is from a Windows server I have in Teraco JB1. I'm curious what Cloudflare is doing differently compared to us because we got extra capacity to deal with the WACS issue.

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Well, close to linespeed I guess:

AH:

Warp:


How do I check tcp?

 

[oldBastard]

Got notification that international connectivity has been lost across the EASSY submarine cable.

 

[jacosmit]

Hey everyone, does anyone know what the status is?

I guess the ship should be rounding the horn sometime soon.

 

[Vorastra]

MTN is routing traffic to a mail server in JHB via Mauritius on SEACOM, which bogs it down.

What could be the reason for this?

BGP oke sleeping.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Hey everyone, does anyone know what the status is?

I guess the ship should be rounding the horn sometime soon.

Nope, ship is still busy on another repair job on the east coast of Africa

Early September it is expected to be on site, weather depending.

 

[Speedster]

Hey everyone, does anyone know what the status is?

I guess the ship should be rounding the horn sometime soon.

Still a week away from CT, and then needs to make its way north.

 

[Vorastra]

No, I only see it on speedtests.

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Meanwhile on a 400mbps line....

 

[wingnut771]

Meanwhile on a 400mbps line....

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and warp?

 

[Vorastra]

and warp?

 

[airborne]

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What speedtest is that that does multiple tests?
Link?

 

[Vorastra]

What speedtest is that that does multiple tests?
Link?

Real-Debrid | Speedtest

real-debrid.com

 

[wingnut771]

What speedtest is that that does multiple tests?
Link?

real-debrid.

 

[wingnut771]

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Hmmm, here's my 250mbps (230mbps) line stats:

 

[airborne]

Check how bad mine are on MTN, I can often get 180Mbps down
Im assuming LON is London, what is RBX?

 

[wingnut771]

Check how bad mine are on MTN, I can often get 180Mbps down
Im assuming LON is London, what is RBX?

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probably huge packet loss at the tower.

and with warp?

 

[airborne]

probably huge packet loss at the tower.

and with warp?

With normal Warp enabled