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electrofreeze said:
can someone show a couple of speed tests between 7-8 pm in peak time and during the day to vodafone london on your 100/100 fiber
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DarkSt0rm said:
That's really not something they can fix, it's the problem of whoever runs the cables between JHB and Durban (FibreCo, BitCo, DFA, IS, etc)
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now is it my fault i live in durban, why cant we get int breakout from here then, so i dont peer with slow jhb? if i have to go through jhb hows it fair for me to get 40% while you lot in jhb get 100%.
 
wingnut771 said:
now is it my fault i live in durban, why cant we get int breakout from here then, so i dont peer with slow jhb? if i have to go through jhb hows it fair for me to get 40% while you lot in jhb get 100%.
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Complain to the services you connect to, not Web Squad lmao. You get 100% to Teraco DBN, we get 100% to Teraco JHB. If you want 1Gbit transit to JHB, pay for it.
 
Write to ICASA and The National Consumer Commission. If they don't resolve your concerns within 1 business day write to the Human Rights Commission and explain how it's racist to exclude you from getting the results you want in a speed test just because you live in Durban.
 
wingnut771 said:
now is it my fault i live in durban, why cant we get int breakout from here then, so i dont peer with slow jhb? if i have to go through jhb hows it fair for me to get 40% while you lot in jhb get 100%.
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You do get breakout in KZN; however a few factors influence the availability of content there.

1. Durban's peering environment is relatively young. It's gaining ground quickly though as pricing on KZN-JHB traffic reduces (This is almost as expensive as international traffic in some cases). A couple big names have set up CDNs and caches in the region and a few more are coming. KZN set up a Netflix and Google cache in Q4 last year (and Cape Town is still waiting). In general with networks, nearest is best. So if it's not available in KZN, you're going to get it from JHB. If not there, we look in CPT, then international. Peers are also upgrading their networks in the region. This being said, KZN has the most active peering community (KZNNOG) and engineers working to make the internet in SA better.

2. 1 Gbps is relatively new for the region. this means that providers are still upgrading their links into and within the region. Hell, you can barely get 500M on some providers who host servers in IS Umhlanga and handover at Teraco (DBN) Riverhorse... the industry needs to catch up a little.

3. The direct route from DBN to CPT provided by Openserve (so you can access lower latency WACS traffic) is down more than it's up. So we all dropped it. There's a new route under construction, but we'll have to wait a time yet. That means your quickest, most reliable route to CPT is via JHB (adding about 6ms over the direct route). That means you'll generally break out via JHB as West coast (WACS and SAT3) traffic to EU (from JHB) is < 160ms, while East coast (SEACOM and EASSY) is <190ms). Adding 7ms to DBN still makes JHB a better source for the majority of traffic. We're working on a deal now for transit with great Eastern and Far Eastern routes and this will probably favour DBN (though we need to confirm this) - Expect this in Q3.
 
websquadza said:
You do get breakout in KZN; however a few factors influence the availability of content there.

1. Durban's peering environment is relatively young. It's gaining ground quickly though as pricing on KZN-JHB traffic reduces (This is almost as expensive as international traffic in some cases). A couple big names have set up CDNs and caches in the region and a few more are coming. KZN set up a Netflix and Google cache in Q4 last year (and Cape Town is still waiting). In general with networks, nearest is best. So if it's not available in KZN, you're going to get it from JHB. If not there, we look in CPT, then international. Peers are also upgrading their networks in the region. This being said, KZN has the most active peering community (KZNNOG) and engineers working to make the internet in SA better.

2. 1 Gbps is relatively new for the region. this means that providers are still upgrading their links into and within the region. Hell, you can barely get 500M on some providers who host servers in IS Umhlanga and handover at Teraco (DBN) Riverhorse... the industry needs to catch up a little.

3. The direct route from DBN to CPT provided by Openserve (so you can access lower latency WACS traffic) is down more than it's up. So we all dropped it. There's a new route under construction, but we'll have to wait a time yet. That means your quickest, most reliable route to CPT is via JHB (adding about 6ms over the direct route). That means you'll generally break out via JHB as West coast (WACS and SAT3) traffic to EU (from JHB) is < 160ms, while East coast (SEACOM and EASSY) is <190ms). Adding 7ms to DBN still makes JHB a better source for the majority of traffic. We're working on a deal now for transit with great Eastern and Far Eastern routes and this will probably favour DBN (though we need to confirm this) - Expect this in Q3.
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yes ive noticed.
not complaining at all.
just bringing up a point.
thank you for not making me feel like a mushroom.
 
ive never seen 100MB/s download speed.

what can download that is local (dbn) and big enough to sustain for a while.
 
wingnut771 said:
ive never seen 100MB/s download speed.

what can download that is local (dbn) and big enough to sustain for a while.
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@Waylander’s guide to caching with Cloudflare (it’s a few posts back) will let you use Cloudflare’s cache to download at linewire. Cloudflare are one of the major CDNs available on KZN and running at 10G.
 
websquadza said:
@Waylander’s guide to caching with Cloudflare (it’s a few posts back) will let you use Cloudflare’s cache to download at linewire. Cloudflare are one of the major CDNs available on KZN and running at 10G.
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:-) Still working fantastically over here. Proxied my Plex, RD & Deluge servers so I essentially have gigabit to everything I use.
 
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