WebAfrica - a little feedback

[Fulton17]

Yep they do - news.wa.co.za
No logon required, but you need to be connected with a WA account. Set GrabIt or whatever you're using to 5 connections and you should get full speeds.

It used to work great for me, but now it does not work at all. I have tried with and without login details and never get past timing out. Very annoying as for a while it worked perfectly at 200kbps but only with 2 connections.

Hope it works for you and if anyone has any suggestions, would love to hear them

 

[hgiddy]

Thanks Zombie, Tried is with my client on mac - no joy on port 119 or 563/ssl - what port are you using?

 

[Tinuva]

Still works for me.

root@heaven-htpc:~# telnet news.wa.co.za 119
Trying 196.220.59.30...
Connected to news.wa.co.za.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 wa-cpt-news NNTPCache server V3.0.2 [see www.nntpcache.com]  (c) 1996-2002 Julian Assange <[email protected]> Nov 17 2009 ready (posting ok, 110947 groups available).
quit
205 bye.
Connection closed by foreign host.

 

[HavocXphere]

Up until recently YouTube has been great, but now every other video just doesn't load at all. It takes a minute to buffer perhaps the first 3s of the vid, then it gets stuck. So some vids perform as expected

I bet 10 respect points that the deciding factor here is whether the video is in the (afaik incomplete) ZA GGC or not. And another 10 points says the traceroutes won't help diagnose it since its redirected on a video by video basis.

I suppose 720p is asking too much from a 4MBit connection though.

Haven't done the calculations, but I think if you fix your hosts file & its mirrored on the ZA GGC then it should stream cleanly even on 720. Gonna be close though...