Hi there. The Service Delivery team has been hounding the FNO for lead times and will revert as soon as they have some solid feedback. Apologies for the delay here.
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Hi there. The Service Delivery team has been hounding the FNO for lead times and will revert as soon as they have some solid feedback. Apologies for the delay here.
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No need to apologies! That's the kind of update I was looking for, thanks for the fast reply
So the end of our glorious gigabit evolution is speedily approaching, @websquadza any news out of vumatel of making it a permanent fixture?
Has it been worthwhile for you? With my line we found after testing from websquad side that going over 200mbps the packet loss was completely ridiculous and unusable... Not sure if its worth it?
Would love to know how to set this all up and costs involved. Vumatel trenched, 1gbps line Durban.. My online gaming would greatly appreciate this and hopefully help with buffering from streaming iptv services.
I found quite a bit of instability on the ubiquity stuff over 300-400Mbit yeah, but on that Asus GT-AX11000 router I've had no stability issues at all - so I guess the ubiquity stuff isn't 'powerful' enough to actually run at a gigabit stably? I'm not sure, but that's my observation at least.
Now that's a router hehe. However bypassing the router and plugging directly into the cpe we had the packet loss, so not caused by the router.
wingnut771
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yeah, if you're not in jhb, don't bother with 1 gig.
Seems so bud..
@websquadza I logged a ticket, but it seems to be at least related to CapeTown customers where loadshedding.eskom.co.za is routed/handled differently by "something".
The expected results for
is a single digit (or perhaps a connection reset as it's perhaps overloaded), but from both my IPs and another frined in CapeTown, I get this response:
I've checked this on both my IPs, and a friend on WebSquad gave the above responses, but switching to Vanilla, it works as expected.
So the questions: which/where is this coming from??? your upstreams, or Eskom's hsoting provider??
This appeared this morning (my LoadShedding Notifier app is froken 'cause of it) and wasn't a problem early last night. but it also seems to be the domain loadshedding.eskom.co.za that is problematic/routed like this
I also have some problem connecting to an unencrypted IMAP/SMTP email (not my choice, client) and that also seems to fail for some reasons, could these two events be related??
The expected results for
curl http://loadshedding.eskom.co.za/LoadShedding/GetStatusis a single digit (or perhaps a connection reset as it's perhaps overloaded), but from both my IPs and another frined in CapeTown, I get this response:
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<html><head><title>Request Rejected</title></head><body>The requested URL was rejected. Please consult with your administrator.<br><br>Your support ID is: 335974701700386948<br><br><a href='javascript:history.back();'>[Go Back]</a></body></html>⏎I've checked this on both my IPs, and a friend on WebSquad gave the above responses, but switching to Vanilla, it works as expected.
So the questions: which/where is this coming from??? your upstreams, or Eskom's hsoting provider??
This appeared this morning (my LoadShedding Notifier app is froken 'cause of it) and wasn't a problem early last night. but it also seems to be the domain loadshedding.eskom.co.za that is problematic/routed like this
I also have some problem connecting to an unencrypted IMAP/SMTP email (not my choice, client) and that also seems to fail for some reasons, could these two events be related??
It would be nice to get a view on the logs within the Eskom end of this - but I know this is impossible. The thing is this doesn't look like a timeout (which usually points to a MTU issue). Rather it looks like a rejection, like a firewall. Can you send me a PCAP of your connection to this address?
We pick up Eskom's traffic directly via peering with Liquid, so no transit at all - so I imagine this issue is more related to an issue on their end.
If you can update your ticket with the SMTP/IMAP server, we'll see if we can pick up anything.
Just my 2 cents, but it looks like you are trying to query an API Endpoint, do you perhaps need a token or some sort of auth?
Edit: nevermind, I can't even access loadshedding.eskom.co.za anymore lol, I could yesterday. Guess power isn't the only thing they are limiting access too xD
you don't want to read the JavScript that queries that "endpoint"... you'll weep... no, no authentication needed, the same "endpoint" queried by most APPs I'm aware of
Correct
I'll weep reading any javascript at any time, but it seems to have been corrected now
Christmas has come early - we've received confirmation that this promo is being extended for another 12 months! So R1499 1 Gbps is here to stay (well for another year at least).
SpiderGear
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I know I'm greedy, but any news on a 1 Gbps symmetrical connection?
Not going to happen any time soon unfortunately, I don't think they want to erode into the business end of the spectrum.
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