Just doing a little troubleshooting. We're both on a vuma line at the moment (trenched vs aerial though) and working from home levels that playing field - no fancy dedicated office line to test on. Today's issue was a wonky router in JHB (basically it was dropping packets instead of passing them on to the correct edges) - it may have even started mis-behaving earlier. Now that it's out of the equation, things *look* back to normal. Packet loss is gone and speeds and latencies to our usual metric servers (all offnet, none peering, all reputable cloud providers that aren't Microsoft, Google and AWS) are looking good. We can't test to every server in the world, so we need a little feedback to see if and where the issues are.
That said, a good test of RD performance is HTTP downloads - when that loads well, it follows that streaming does too, because they're fed from the same servers. If streaming drops but downloads are good, it's usually a TCP/MSS issue. But if HTTP is bad for you, and great for me - chances are it's something between the AEX NNI and your Vumatel Trenched line.
