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Mine seems to have been upgraded to 500

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Soul Assassin said:
I'm not a client of yours but I like to play with your looking glass all the time and I have to say your latency to Frankfurt is the best of any ISP I've seen and is only beaten by using ExitLAG
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Glad to hear it. We've got direct routing to Paris and onto Frankfurt (rather than via London first), shaves off some ms.
 
Senshi said:
@websquadza having some really weird intermittent international connectivity issues, one second I can browse pages without issue, the next the site is unavailable.

Are there any wider spread issues at the moment that you may be aware of?

Vumatel Areal, Radiokop, Roodepoort.
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Sorry for the late reply here - did you come right or open a ticket so the team could check it out?
 
Interesting stats about South African websites that support IPv6: https://www.vyncke.org/ipv6status/detailed.php?country=za

Less than 50% of the 50 most visited sites in SA support IPv6. Most that do support v6 only do so for CDN content served by Cloudflare - so Cloudflare is making them IPv6 capable. Only a handful of the sites in this list support native IPv6.

There is nothing stopping web hosts and Sysadmins / server admins from enabling IPv6 and setting a AAAA record on their servers. So what's the hold up in making sure content is IPv6 ready?
 
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websquadza said:
Interesting stats about South African websites that support IPv6: https://www.vyncke.org/ipv6status/detailed.php?country=za

Less than 50% of the 50 most visited sites in SA support IPv6. Most that do support v6 only do so for CDN content served by Cloudflare - so Cloudflare is making them IPv6 capable. Only a handful of the sites in this list support native IPv6.

There is nothing stopping web hosts and Sysadmins / server admins from enabling IPv6 and setting a AAAA record on their servers. So what's the hold up in making sure content is IPv6 ready?
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" So what's the hold up in making sure content is IPv6 ready?"


Could not resist only first couple seconds are relevant :)
 
CrypticZA said:
" So what's the hold up in making sure content is IPv6 ready?"


Could not resist only first couple seconds are relevant :)
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On a more serious note though, i worked for a company on that list for a while and have a family member very high up in that same company.

General feedback i witnessed while i was there (i work in finance not IT) and what i know about a few other sites (all online retail stores) is website dev costs etc are extremally high so a lot of companies don't invest the funds they need to due to having to deal with a lot of every day costs e.g. buying stuff in dollars and importing so website development time is not what it should be and thus their websites aren't up to date and often crash under high volumes etc.

The company i worked for have all greens on the link but they have invested A LOT of money into their website, if i recall they went through 3 or 4 different providers locally who just couldn't ensure their website stayed up during their massive sales and were beyond useless at the end of the day.

They started using an overseas company (Cloudflare i think) and pay a lot more but since the switchover have had 0 problems and can handle extreme high volumes of traffic.

So many local providers are just not clued up enough and majority that are all green generally are tending to use international providers?
 
Any updates regarding the potential introduction of a 500 package on Vuma by web squad ? Afrihost seems to be running with it how is that even possible if other ISPs are not? I asked them about their 500 package and they indicated they are in fact offering it now as a choice separate from the promotion. Am I missing something here?
 
JustinB said:
Vuma in North Riding seems to have dropped
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Seeing all Vuma Northriding/Bloubosrand sessions down at the moment. No NWIs announced from Vumatel yet. But we've sent a mail to their NOC for an update.

Update: Vumatel have confirmed a power related NWI
 
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philitoo said:
Any updates regarding the potential introduction of a 500 package on Vuma by web squad ? Afrihost seems to be running with it how is that even possible if other ISPs are not? I asked them about their 500 package and they indicated they are in fact offering it now as a choice separate from the promotion. Am I missing something here?
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Nothing official from Vumatel yet. It would be reasonable to assume that a 500 Mbps package will remain after the upgrade promo is over; but we'd rather make a call based on confirmation from Vumatel to ISPs. At this point, all ISPs order using the same commercials from Vumatel, which means that clients ordering a 200 Mbps are provisioned at 500 Mbps - but there is no 500 Mbps line profile/SKU from Vuma at this point.
 
websquadza said:
Seeing all Vuma Northriding/Bloubosrand sessions down at the moment. No NWIs announced from Vumatel yet. But we've sent a mail to their NOC for an update.
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I am assuming Evotel in North Riding affected too, we are still up but international speed is awful, getting 3 megs on a 100 meg line
 
Zodiak said:
I am assuming Evotel in North Riding affected too, we are still up but international speed is awful, getting 3 megs on a 100 meg line
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Likely related - but always check for packet loss if you're struggling on higher latency connections.
 
My PPPoE dropped and is staying down on Openserve/Fourways
Anybody else?
 
Internet completely died now, Evotel North Riding, router cannot authenticate my account
 
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