Telkom ADSL Rate-Limiting - Panorama Exchange?

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Over the past 7-8 weeks I have noticed that the Telkom Exchange congestion at the Panorama Exchange has all but completely disappeared - Pings have been quite frankly excellent overall with almost 0 packet loss.

What I have started to notice is that ADSL throughput speeds sporadically drop around the typical peak times (after-hours and weekends) to around 50% of your line speed, with occasional bursting to 70-90% of your line speed. I have not really noticed this whilst running on 2Meg but since having my bandwidth bumped back to 4Meg it has become quite noticeable. Pings and the like are unaffected when this rate-limiting happens, it is only throughput. Both me and my neighbor have observed the bandwidth limiting behavior; It is not ISP related as the rate-limiting remains over 5 ISP accounts tested.

Could this be something that was implemented to deal with Exchange congestion issues?
 
get a 46ms ping and good speed on the ookla test but gaming and browsing are up and down. The traceRT either goes through clean or there are crazy hops with high latency of over 999ms
 
GuRu said:
get a 46ms ping and good speed on the ookla test but gaming and browsing are up and down. The traceRT either goes through clean or there are crazy hops with high latency of over 999ms
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When I am experiencing rate limiting I'll do some pingtests and post it here.
 
Ditto - but on Aasvoelkop (the other exchange 1 light year from Weltevredenpark that we must suffer with).

Speeds drop off sharply at 5pm on weekdays, and return around 9. Fine all day otherwise.

In fairness, it may be the ISPS - no way to tell really (also have more than one ISP - but they would all suffer peak times too)
 
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