Wierda Park ext2 is super slow

[VMS]

Uncapped 4Mbit line, ISP: Telkom.

I know it is end of the month and everybody wants to use up their data but this is ridiculous.
Here are some of the speed tests I did last night. Edenvale street, Wierda Park ext 2, Centurion.

DL UL Ping
0.07 0.09 410ms
0.13 0.12 480ms
0.06 0.17 598ms
0.01 0.01 48ms

I did these tests with all other devices blocked, except the one I was testing on.

At the start of the new month my speed usually comes back at full 4bit/s, so I know that the line is 100%.
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Today (Monday) I find myself at a friend's place with the exact same 4M ADSL connection. In Silverton.

DL UL Ping
3.5M 0.38 30ms ( 3 other people are currently on the connection with one listening to streaming music)


Why the hell am I at sub dial-up speeds and the other connection is still nearing maximum download capacity? I also know I cannot be near any form of soft cap. Again, my friend up the street @2mbit/s, has full speed access.

Can it be that the pool my 4Mbit/s is connected to a group that gets depleted by other users and then I am penalized along with them all?

If I drop Telkom as ISP and use e.g. Afrihost will it be better or will I still be throttled to death?

VMS

 

[Rickster]

Dont think its throttling, could be exchange congestion.

 

[VMS]

My ADSL is now basically unusable. Last night I had pings of 1051ms, long stretches of zero data (up and down), with a blip here and there. But by tomorrow (1st of month) it should be full 4mbit/s again. Will report back on that. I think Telkom has just run out of available bandwidth. Maybe everybody is trying to use up their caps and are getting higher priority than me?

In general we never use more than 100GB (in most cases much, much less due to slow speed). So it cannot be a soft cap, just an overloaded network with Telkom trying to bill for every cent they can.

 

[VMS]

New month and Telkom blooms again. This morning the first speed test gave 43ms ping, 3.5mbit/s download and more than 1mbit/s upload. So my line is OK. It is just Telkom basically cutting most service from the 20th of each month.

Diagnosis:... Don't use Telkom as ISP.