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Sure. I'm on Smile Tanzania atm, a 4G carrier (though slower than 4G in the US or Europe). This isn't the carrier I'll use for web app tests. http://dpaste.com
by thebenedict 12y ago
Sure. I'm on Smile Tanzania atm, a 4G carrier (though slower than 4G in the US or Europe). This isn't the carrier I'll use for web app tests.
http://dpaste.com/129AKD2 http://dpaste.com/129AKD2
http://dpaste.com/37YE2VY http://dpaste.com/37YE2VY
- nitinics 12y agoLooks like your provider is traversing through TATA Communications (AS6453) on both of those. Wonder what your latency would be with a SEACOM(AS37100) traversal, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Tanzania http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Tanzania Here are your downstream carrier options : http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS37100&v=4&view=2.0 http://www.cidr-report.org/cgi-bin/as-report?as=AS37100&v=4&...
- thebenedict 12y agoNeat. My rough understanding is that carriers here route traffic through SEACOM, EASSy (and likely others) to minimize cost and traffic. I don't think I can choose SEACOM specifically -- but I'm always up to test Cunningham's Law.
- nitinics 12y agoYour traffic traversed through SMILE>Zantel>Tata .. You may not be able to influence the best path to reach Google through Smile even though Zantel might be multihomed (unless the best path changes). I'd recommend testing from other providers such as SPICE-NET-TZ, TZ or simbanet-tz,TZ etc. [ Look above at the Seacom's downstream adjacent AS link I provided to find if you can use any of those carrier instead ] # whois -h whois.cymru.com 41.138.222.196 AS | IP | AS Name 327692 | 41.138.222.196 | SMILECOMMS,UG # whois -h whois.cymru.com 41.73.194.97 AS | IP | AS Name 36930 | 41.73.194.97 | Zantel-AS,TZ
- mhogomchungu 12y agoTanzanian here writing this from dar es salaam,Tanzania. I have never hear of this "smile" company so i looked them up and their prices[1] seem ridiculous. I use vodacom and i pay 20,000 shillings a month for unlimited internet.This company charges 17,500 a month for 1GB. vodacom,like other companies also have more options[2]. Why do you use this company? ps: 1USD is equivalent to about 1500 shillings so 20000 shillings is about 13USD [1] http://smile.co.tz/products-services/ http://smile.co.tz/products-services/ [2] https://www.vodacom.co.tz/internetservices/prepaid_packages/cheka-internet https://www.vodacom.co.tz/internetservices/prepaid_packages/...
- jordanthoms 12y agoLooks like smile has 4G LTE, so is probably significantly faster.
- craigds 12y agoHow fast is it? To my NZ ears these prices sound fantastic, as we usually pay about 5-6 times that for unlimited internet (if unlimited is even an option; it only is in certain urban areas). But presumably it's quite slow?
- mhogomchungu 12y agoi just updated by linux box using apt-get and it reported: "Fetched 47.0MB in 2m3s (381kB/s)". Thats 3Mbps. This kind of speeds happen from time to time but long downloads or streams are usually capped at around 300kbps( around 40kBps). The speed is decent enough during normal web surfing.
- xai3luGi 12y agoYou should come to the Debian conference in Cape Town next year :) https://jonathancarter.org/2015/02/13/debconf-2016-to-be-hosted-in-cape-town/ https://jonathancarter.org/2015/02/13/debconf-2016-to-be-hos...
- thebenedict 12y ago
- evanb 12y agoHI MIKE! I think you're the only other person I know who reads HN. Neat idea.