WTF?

[Schickelgruber]

You understand nothing of how the internet works here. You just saw uncapped offers and blamed it on them... Try do some research before you make statements like that, else you just end up looking like a fool to all. enough said.

As for the afrihost speedtest ask telkom to resync your line, that helped me once with my afrihost connection and try to a pingtest to find out more.

What exactly should I research and what is the point? Honestly, what other reason can you give me for the network being slow other than the Uncapped packages have increased internet traffic and thus causing latency on the lines? Who gives a Rat's - A about your wonderful internet history. Fact is fact now move on.

 

[ReubenL]

My connection: 4MB Shaped uncapped, directly from IS.

IS Shaped uncapped after hours:

 

[Schickelgruber]

IS Shaped uncapped after hours:

Your ping is quite high. Did you try checking ping over international yet?

 

[D34M0n7]

What exactly should I research and what is the point? Honestly, what other reason can you give me for the network being slow other than the Uncapped packages have increased internet traffic and thus causing latency on the lines? Who gives a Rat's - A about your wonderful internet history. Fact is fact now move on.

Non!

The reason is not the physical network, it has been upgraded and its in the process of being upgraded...

The reason is mainly due to the monopoly known as telkom, they charge insane amounts of money for an ISP to get IPC, the amounts are close to that and in some cases exceeding that of international bandwidth prices.

This causes the ISPs to have to put their uncapped users into a tight connection ratio, my guess is close to 50:1. However capped subscribers won't fall into this connection ratio, they'll have their own, depending on the ISP it may be close to 20:1. If they don't do this then they don't make a profit. there is nothing wrong with the physical network other than the fact that we don't have higher then 4mb/s speeds available to the public at affordable prices.

If telkom charged less and released the LLU all together then we could see connection ratios drop and speed increase, because the ISPs would not be so hard pressed to fit us all in, in tight connection ratios.

Also know that the internet was like this here BEFORE the uncapped was released, hell 1 to 2 years ago I had over 5000ms in WoW and Dl speeds on my 1mb/s connection were going at less than half that.

As you say, facts are facts, perhaps its better if you learn them and not pull them out of... how would you put it, aha, your A - Hole.

Another reason is due to the international cables, there are only 3 (if memory serves), but this thread is on the national bandwidth.

 

[Schickelgruber]

Non!

The reason is not the physical network, it has been upgraded and its in the process of being upgraded...

The reason is mainly due to the monopoly known as telkom, they charge insane amounts of money for an ISP to get IPC, the amounts are close to that and in some cases exceeding that of international bandwidth prices.

This causes the ISPs to have to put their uncapped users into a tight connection ratio, my guess is close to 50:1. However capped subscribers won't fall into this connection ratio, they'll have their own, depending on the ISP it may be close to 20:1. If they don't do this then they don't make a profit. there is nothing wrong with the physical network other than the fact that we don't have higher then 4mb/s speeds available to the public at affordable prices.

If telkom charged less and released the LLU all together then we could see connection ratios drop and speed increase, because the ISPs would not be so hard pressed to fit us all in, in tight connection ratios.

Also know that the internet was like this here BEFORE the uncapped was released, hell 1 to 2 years ago I had over 5000ms in WoW and Dl speeds on my 1mb/s connection were going at less than half that.

As you say, facts are facts, perhaps its better if you learn them and not pull them out of... how would you put it, aha, your A - Hole.

Another reason is due to the international cables, there are only 3 (if memory serves), but this thread is on the national bandwidth.

And you could have avoided all of this by posting this in your first reply! Why do you people tend to make everything so complicated? Thank your for the information.

 

[epeer]

Local on Afrihost is a bit better this morning, but still not up to scratch:



I don't think it's a line fault on my side, since I've seen 3.5 Mbps as recently as yesterday morning (on local).



International has been consistently slow like this for days now. I've only used 13GB so far this month, so I'm well below their throttling thresholds. What is going on?