Krapi Cable Congestion?

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#1392556 23-Sep-2015 10:15

My cable node in Christchurch (Hillmorton C135 I think) has been upgraded about a week ago. I'm seeing 95+mbps almost all of the time, even during peak, with the occasional speed test dropping down to 80 or so, but 5 mins later it's usually back to 95+. When I bothered to do a test a few days ago at 8:30 pm I was seeing 81mbps to LA, 97 to Sydney and 101 to NZ. Seat of the pants wise this connection is really fast now. Torrenting at 11MB/s in the evenings is nice.

I still get the occasional time certain sites won't load though, which I've seen on cable connections since forever (transparent proxy/cache issues I assume).

I'm still set on going to fibre as soon as I can, Vodafone need to be punished for charging me the same amount for such a crappy connection unusable connection for the last 6 months.

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#1392574 23-Sep-2015 10:31

It would be a huge load (Khandallah, Broadmeadows, Johnsonville) on a single node and some in Khandallah seemed to have different results so I assumed not. But never know...

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#1392584 23-Sep-2015 10:44

freitasm: It would be a huge load (Khandallah, Broadmeadows, Johnsonville) on a single node and some in Khandallah seemed to have different results so I assumed not. But never know...

I'd assume that Burma might have various nodes within it - just like Kapiti does. But as you say, you never really know - be nice to have a map showing location of all the nodes :)

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#1392917 23-Sep-2015 17:20

r2b2:
freitasm: It would be a huge load (Khandallah, Broadmeadows, Johnsonville) on a single node and some in Khandallah seemed to have different results so I assumed not. But never know...

I'd assume that Burma might have various nodes within it - just like Kapiti does. But as you say, you never really know - be nice to have a map showing location of all the nodes :)

Good idea, having some sort of tool would be useful. A few "expansions"...

What about having a node checker instead? A bit like the address checker, however instead of telling you what services you can get at an address, the node checker tells you what node you're connected to.

Or having a map version of the node checker? Buildings in cable internet zones [is that the correct term?] would be colour coded, with a key matching colours to nodes. And then the key states what (if any) nodes are down/under maintenance with an ETA for the node to be back up/have their maintenance finished.

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#1393177 24-Sep-2015 00:49

Woahhh. First time over 100Mbps in months

Sorry, didn't test 6pm - midnight as I was doing a fresh install on my laptop. Will test tomorrow.

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#1393183 24-Sep-2015 03:29

The connection here has been awful tonight. My flatmates were complaining quite a bit about it, and I heard one of them loudly shout expletives at its worst.

It's 3 AM now, and even with a few reboots over several hours, it's still behaving terribly. :(

Pinging google.co.nz [203.97.26.31] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 203.97.26.31: bytes=32 time=720ms TTL=60
Reply from 203.97.26.31: bytes=32 time=163ms TTL=60
Request timed out.
Reply from 203.97.26.31: bytes=32 time=823ms TTL=60

Pinging 8.8.8.8 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=46ms TTL=52
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=68ms TTL=52
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=82ms TTL=52
Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=607ms TTL=52

There really isn't much left to comment on. At this point, the results are simply continuing to speak for themselves...

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#1393198 24-Sep-2015 07:19

http://www.vodafone.co.nz/cableupgrades/ still showing 22nd September. So nothing got upgraded yesterday? Hope they get through twice as many today then.

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#1393207 24-Sep-2015 07:50

gbwelly: http://www.vodafone.co.nz/cableupgrades/ still showing 22nd September. So nothing got upgraded yesterday? Hope they get through twice as many today then.

Was major planned work early hours the morning before hand and nope not twice as much work is going to be done today it's just not possible

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#1393614 24-Sep-2015 14:27

Very strange. Not 130 Mbps like yesterday but not bad either. On the other hand the upload which has been not affected during this whole time is now way below the 10 Mbps

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#1393618 24-Sep-2015 14:36

I can only imagine that making major capacity upgrades in real time and slip streaming into existing chaotic traffic will take some time for nodes to balance and become efficient.

Vodafone is taking people out ring by ring - but as soon as the service is available, a large population will all reconnect and absolutely hammer the recovered service leading surges and peaks in traffic. It's not like it can all be turned off, cache flushed and everything coming back on slowly and predictably.

It's still a complete farce that any consumer facing product like this was allowed to degrade and fall apart to such a horrendous level, and it's a complete Telecom response to say 'no SLA's and Best Efforts' - that's as arrogant and dismissive of your customers as you can get.

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#1393723 24-Sep-2015 16:56

freitasm: Very strange. Not 130 Mbps like yesterday but not bad either. On the other hand the upload which has been not affected during this whole time is now way below the 10 Mbps

That's exactly what happened to me, last night it appeared to come right with upload speeds back up to 10 (although, I didn't get to test it until pretty late)... I'm hoping it remains that way, as 10Mbps is about the least I can deal with if anyone is grabbing data from me (such as my daughter streaming things from my server when she's with her mother).

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#1393751 24-Sep-2015 17:43

I'm wondering if I should log a separate fault or something. This connection has been horrifically underperforming for the last >24 hours. Even at non-peak hours it's struggling.

There's not even one week left in the month. ADSL is starting to look mighty tempting...

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#1393755 24-Sep-2015 17:48

Kodiack: I'm wondering if I should log a separate fault or something. This connection has been horrifically underperforming for the last >24 hours. Even at non-peak hours it's struggling.
[speedtest results]
There's not even one week left in the month. ADSL is starting to look mighty tempting...

Sure - there could definitely be an unrelated issue. Please of course try the obvious things (reboot router, try another device, try another speedtest server, network cable instead of wifi etc..) and if no luck then get in touch and the team will look into it further.

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#1393758 24-Sep-2015 17:54

We tried rebooting the modem and router several times. We even switched over to a separate router with no luck. The modem's power levels are in a really good spot, so it's likely not line quality at least.

We'll likely log a fault tomorrow if the issues persist overnight. Cheers for the quick reply, by the way, Dylan. I imagine that many of us would have left long ago if we didn't have you and John providing occasional updates. While we'd always appreciate more information, it's understandable that there's only so much that you can either say or know at any point. :P

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#1393780 24-Sep-2015 19:21

It's looking like my terrible upload problem has gone away a few days after the work was done on my node...

and everything is ok as long as I only want to do speed tests to Vodafone in the same city ;)

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