Internet Speed slow today?

[Marq]

I have to keep looking to see if I am connected today.,

Seems sum ting wong with overseas connection as all international traffic for me is running at 2% speed.

Anybody know what is going on out there today?

[twinscythe12332]

I'm running fine, so Internet solutions is still going strong...

[Dave A]

I'm struggling with international on Telkom ADSL. But then I have been all week.
Over V3G it hasn't been a problem.

ps - Internet Solutions is local hosting

[Marq]

Back to normal this evening.
Dont know what that was about.

[tec0]

If you are running with Virgin Mobile “be lucky that you have a connection” I am suffering horribly no info from Virgin Mobile yet...

[twinscythe12332]

I'm struggling with international on Telkom ADSL. But then I have been all week.
Over V3G it hasn't been a problem.

ps - Internet Solutions is local hosting

it's also the source of our internet at the mo. normally they're having difficulties in this regard when international is having issues.

[Dave A]

Well, V3G was simply not working at 6.00am this morning. Ping test were fine, but no page loads.

Right now Telkom ADSL is flying for me, though.

[tec0]

Sometimes I envy you...

[Marq]

I only use the telkom adsl - working great today.

When are the new cables due to be hooked up for us sheeple?

[tec0]

My Virgin Mobile is still dropping my downloads... It is frustrating!

[Dave A]

When are the new cables due to be hooked up for us sheeple?

Good question. I was hoping the mess around was due to the system being reconfigured to tap into the Seacom cable.

When are we going to get this blindingly fast international connectivity?

[tec0]

I think the Telkom’s hardware infrastructure may not be able to handle the speeds demanded. Secondly they are still expensive! The sad truth is there are places that still don’t have ADSL capabilities! I think they are too small to handle the demands and they don’t want proper competitors so we get crappy expensive lines.

[Dave A]

Vodacom 3G is down. Has been since yesterday morning and they've no idea when they'll be back up and running again. Sounds fairly serious.

EDIT: I just shot over to mybroadband.co.za to see what was going on in the Vodacom 3G forum. Very, very quiet in there. Obviously not everyone has an alternative means to connect.

[tec0]

Being with Virgin Mobile is like having an Enema done by Freddy Krueger!

[popayetwo]

Telkom ADSL was very slow today but seems better this evening. I was updating a local Joomla site and each page took two minutes to load iso just a few seconds.

At one point the connection dropped out.