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@DarkSt0rm

Well if you aren't maxing your line on torrents you are doing it wrong. p2p is MASSIVE on Disk I/O. Constant random reads and writes so if you don't have a sizable disk cache set then torrents will be slow. I have a 3GB disk cache setting which qbittorrent fills up in my RAM but maxes my 200Mbps line on pretty much any torrent public or private.

 

[Zodiak]

Is anyone else experiencing extremely poor international download speed?

 

[websquadza]

Is anyone else experiencing extremely poor international download speed?

Any particular addresses/services we can test?

 

[Zodiak]

Any particular addresses/services we can test?

My Microsoft App store is downloading small updates at 600kb per sec and Gog Galaxy 2.0 launcher has taken 2 hours to download 250 meg

 

[websquadza]

My Microsoft App store is downloading small updates at 600kb per sec and Gog Galaxy 2.0 launcher has taken 2 hours to download 250 meg

Weird. All Microsoft content in SA is served via their peering (it’s effectively local and cached in their local CDNs), will test other content and see if there’s an issue with them- plenty of peering capacity available. Will also check GOGs CDN.

 

[DarkSt0rm]

Yeah I battled to download spotify earlier, the store just refused to load :/

@DarkSt0rm

Well if you aren't maxing your line on torrents you are doing it wrong. p2p is MASSIVE on Disk I/O. Constant random reads and writes so if you don't have a sizable disk cache set then torrents will be slow. I have a 3GB disk cache setting which qbittorrent fills up in my RAM but maxes my 200Mbps line on pretty much any torrent public or private.

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Where are the settings in qbt? I'm downloading onto a m.2 drive, but caching in RAM isn't something I've considered before!

 

[SpiderGear]

@websquadza , what are our chances of ever seeing a symmetrical 1Gbps package on Vumatel trenched?

 

[Snoopster0303]

Something doesn't add up...

It's EA and Blizzard though. Since Uplay/Steam etc is fine

 

[Zodiak]

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Something doesn't add up...

It's EA and Blizzard though. Since Uplay/Steam etc is fine

I've got the same issues going on for 3 days now, download speeds are pathetic but Speedtest is relatively ok and getting up to 100% packet loss on upload in PUBG.....

 

[websquadza]

I've got the same issues going on for 3 days now, download speeds are pathetic but Speedtest is relatively ok and getting up to 100% packet loss on upload in PUBG.....

Can you send me an MTR for PUBG? This is an AWS service, and we’ve kept China Telecoms offline since the last problem while they work on a fix.

 

[websquadza]

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Something doesn't add up...

It's EA and Blizzard though. Since Uplay/Steam etc is fine

Blizzard’ network is proving very problematic at the moment - globally. Their London peering handovers are just full of losses and they’ve made some weird routing decisions since their big ddos some weeks back. Their handover in Amsterdam is apparently better... Our transit providers are working on getting more out of Blizzard in Amsterdam. Hopefully we’ll see more out of their network soon.

 

[Zodiak]

What worries me is this download speed on the Xbox Game Pass app. This is on a 100 meg line, downloading all night for 40 GB:

 

[Zodiak]

PS The packet loss on PUBG is back down to 0% so it's possible it was their servers

 

[websquadza]

What worries me is this download speed on the Xbox Game Pass app. This is on a 100 meg line, downloading all night for 40 GB:

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All xbox content is from Microsoft's CDN. Usually this is fed locally, but checked yours now and this download is coming from somewhere in the EU (Dublin is my best guess):

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|                                      WinMTR statistics                                   |
|                       Host              -   %  | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
|                            172.16.104.1 -    0 |   81 |   81 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                           160.119.225.9 -    0 |   81 |   81 |    0 |    0 |    7 |    0 |
|             core.cr-01.jb1.za.ws.net.za -    0 |   81 |   81 |    0 |    0 |    2 |    0 |
|        core.pe-xe-ix01.jb1.za.ws.net.za -    0 |   81 |   81 |    0 |    1 |   79 |    0 |
|                    microsoft.ixp.joburg -    0 |   81 |   81 |    0 |    1 |   79 |    1 |
|         ae22-0.icr01.jnb21.ntwk.msn.net -    0 |   81 |   81 |    1 |    3 |   65 |    2 |
|       be-120-0.ibr02.jnb21.ntwk.msn.net -    0 |   81 |   81 |  167 |  168 |  246 |  167 |
|         be-6-0.ibr02.cpt20.ntwk.msn.net -    0 |   81 |   81 |  167 |  168 |  231 |  167 |
|         be-3-0.ibr02.lon22.ntwk.msn.net -    3 |   74 |   72 |  177 |  178 |  236 |  177 |
|         be-8-0.ibr02.dub07.ntwk.msn.net -    0 |   81 |   81 |  167 |  168 |  231 |  167 |
|        ae122-0.icr02.dub07.ntwk.msn.net -    0 |   81 |   81 |  177 |  178 |  240 |  194 |
|          ae21-0.db3-96c-1b.ntwk.msn.net -    0 |   81 |   81 |  166 |  168 |  245 |  167 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   16 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                   No response from host -  100 |   16 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|                             13.107.4.54 -    0 |   81 |   81 |  166 |  169 |  230 |  167 |
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Not sure why that is; but I think they're doing some work on their CDN. The catch here is that all Microsoft peering is carried to SA via their transit (remember Azure and their massive transit capacity to SA) and is handed over as peering traffic. If we drop peering, transit will also pick this up with their Microsoft peering in SA. We saw something similar with Microsoft about a year and a half ago, where content off their network was a tad slow. Will see if we can get some feedback here.

 

[websquadza]

PS The packet loss on PUBG is back down to 0% so it's possible it was their servers

Drop me a MTR if it returns.. need to see where the bad hop is to fix it.

 

[Zodiak]

Drop me a MTR if it returns.. need to see where the bad hop is to fix it.

Will do for sure, it was very bizarre earlier, literally 85 - 100 percent packet loss

 

[websquadza]

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Something doesn't add up...

It's EA and Blizzard though. Since Uplay/Steam etc is fine

Can you check again when you have a chance? Brought a transit provider back up and Blizzard is preferring that route from their EU servers. Let's see if it helps?

 

[websquadza]

Will do for sure, it was very bizarre earlier, literally 85 - 100 percent packet loss

That's big. Please do. We didn't get any alarms on our JHB-CPT route (checked logs again to be sure). We've migrated AWS Direct Connect to Cape Town (seeing as all their traffic comes in via CT anyway and we can better control our national routes since we upgraded there). So would be good to know where it came from.

 

[Hingisp]

I've got the same issues going on for 3 days now, download speeds are pathetic but Speedtest is relatively ok and getting up to 100% packet loss on upload in PUBG.....

I am also having this. Downloading update system firmware for nvidia Shield, a 114mb file was crawling, like 0.01mb/sec... Turn on vpn to new York server and suddenly downloading at like 5mb/s...

 

[DarkSt0rm]

Microsoft is still slow as all hell

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|                                      WinMTR statistics                                   |
|                       Host              -   %  | Sent | Recv | Best | Avrg | Wrst | Last |
|------------------------------------------------|------|------|------|------|------|------|
|                             192.168.1.1 -    0 |   57 |   57 |    0 |    0 |    0 |    0 |
|       as-vuma.jb-is-pld-01.za.ws.net.za -    0 |   57 |   57 |    1 |    6 |   21 |    1 |
|          core.as-xe-02.jb1.za.ws.net.za -    0 |   57 |   57 |    1 |    1 |    1 |    1 |
|          core.cr-xe-01.jb1.za.ws.net.za -    0 |   57 |   57 |    1 |    1 |    2 |    1 |
|        core.pe-xe-ip01.jb1.za.ws.net.za -    0 |   57 |   57 |    1 |    1 |   15 |    5 |
|        core.pe-xe-ip01.cp1.za.ws.net.za -    0 |   57 |   57 |   18 |   19 |   36 |   19 |
|           165-69-148-197.as37497.za.net -    0 |   57 |   57 |   18 |   19 |   27 |   18 |
|           162-68-148-197.as37497.za.net -    0 |   57 |   57 |  159 |  160 |  175 |  160 |
|            14-71-148-197.as37497.za.net -    0 |   57 |   57 |  159 |  161 |  196 |  159 |
|            37-66-148-197.as37497.za.net -    0 |   57 |   57 |  159 |  160 |  176 |  160 |
|gi0-6-0-10.rcr21.b015533-1.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com -    0 |   56 |   56 |  183 |  214 |  222 |  213 |
|   be2866.ccr21.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com -    0 |   57 |   57 |  179 |  212 |  228 |  215 |
|be12499.rcr21.b023101-0.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com -    0 |   57 |   57 |  179 |  212 |  230 |  214 |
|           gblx.ams04.atlas.cogentco.com -    5 |   49 |   47 |  196 |  217 |  254 |  220 |
|                          152.195.97.131 -    0 |   57 |   57 |  182 |  212 |  227 |  213 |
|                           68.232.34.200 -    5 |   49 |   47 |  189 |  210 |  219 |  214 |
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