Woohoo - Fast mode is back on!

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Andre

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MY DSL went dead for a while, came back on and the pings are back to normal now:

Tracing route to saix.net [196.25.1.200]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 10 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 16 ms 17 ms 15 ms wbs-146-128-01.telkomadsl.co.za [165.146.128.1]

3 17 ms 16 ms 15 ms wbs-ip-er-1-fe-4-0-0-1.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.4
3.23.10]
4 18 ms 19 ms 17 ms wblv-ip-essr-1-atm-2-0-0-2.telkom-ipnet.co.za [1
96.43.11.30]
5 18 ms 18 ms 18 ms wblv-ip-www-1.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.1.200]


Trace complete.
 
What was the point of interleaved mode in the first place?
 
I restarted my router and it still says interleaved. I guess its going to have to trickle down to the local DSLAM?
 
Decotey said:
What was the point of interleaved mode in the first place?
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Interleave offically is supposed to be better since it has better error handling at the cost of a high latency. It was rumoured though it was done to make VOIP calls harder and less audible since the latency was higher.
 
DFantom said:
Any cable system vs. Any wireless system = cable system has better latency
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Not necessarily, depends on the routing.

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Pinging karoo.mweb.co.za [196.2.128.100] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 196.2.128.100: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=114
Reply from 196.2.128.100: bytes=32 time=25ms TTL=114
Reply from 196.2.128.100: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=114
Reply from 196.2.128.100: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=114
Reply from 196.2.128.100: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=114
Reply from 196.2.128.100: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=114
Reply from 196.2.128.100: bytes=32 time=24ms TTL=114
Reply from 196.2.128.100: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=114
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That's at 09:16 in the morning when every man and his dog is checking their email, with a connection half the speed of DSL512.
 
Yes, both radio waves and electrical signals travel at the speed of light. The slow down is due to more errors on wireless (frequent retransmission) and routing inefficiencies like MaD said.
 
Do I have to do something special (threaten, bribe or otherwise cajole) to get fast-mode back?

Cheers

PS For those of you who are worried about slow wifi connections try this out http://j-walk.com/other/wifispray/ ;)
 
I think they are gradually setting everyone back to fast mode over a period of some days or weeks. In fact I'm not sure Telkom got around to putting everyone on interleave mode in the first place.
 
but the latency wil always beat somethign liek iburst since it has an alhorythym build in to manage transparent tower switching, but thats off the topic entirley, fact is those are some hot ping times.
 
yeah i can get around 25 when not maxing my connection, but 10 ms or under... i have never had that
 
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