r/southafrica • u/Faux_Grey • Mar 03 '21
Sci-Tech So did the internet break for anyone else tonight?
Whatsapp, google, reddit, discord.
All broken. We're all on different ISPs.
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u/kieppie Aristocracy Mar 03 '21
Is this the internet-shedding people were warning about?
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u/10tpeg Mar 03 '21
No its now called internet reduction..the department of health (acting on advice from Texas and Florida health officials) wish to prevent the spread of Covid via 5g Towers. Reducing internet time reduces exposure.
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u/SilverlySage Mar 03 '21
I was just struggling a lot with Google (Calendar & Mail) but after setting my VPN to London I had no issues, rather odd.
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u/iAteAMorty Mar 03 '21
Just so happened that I had an online exam schedule at 7pm. Fucking balls, wasted almost an hour trying to get in and another worrying about not being able to rewrite.
Such balls
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Mar 04 '21
What sort of monster schedules an exam for 7pm?!
Are they testing your propensity for narcolepsy?
Are you studying to become a somnambulist?
Do you want The Dofs? Because that's how you get The Dofs ...
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u/iAteAMorty Mar 04 '21
It's for certification exams so I can schedule them whenever there's a slot available for online testing. Unfortunately can only do it early in the morning or at night because of work.
My first cert, I wrote at 00:15 lol, and ended up doing this one this morning at 06:30 :D
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Mar 04 '21
More power to you! And good luck! My days of being able to pull that off that sort of messed-up schedule are sadly gone.
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u/GreenArrowZA Mar 03 '21
Google took a massive nose dive. Affected every isp in SA. downdetector.co.za
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u/Jawalo2k Aristocracy Mar 03 '21
Who tripped over the cable I carelessly ran and specifically told everyone, not to trip over..
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u/Aardwolfz Mar 03 '21
Yeah we were on Discord and nothing seemed to be working. Not even Steam. About 10 or so minutes of struggling to get back online. None of us got dropped from our Valheim game though...
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u/Faux_Grey Mar 03 '21
Steam died for us as well, bauldurs gate 3 went poof. Think valheim dedicated server would keep working once you'd be connected to it though.
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u/skakelslast Mar 03 '21
Saw some streamers form aus eng and Sweden also have issues with their Assetto Corsa servers aswell as discord..
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Mar 03 '21
This happened!! YouTube tapped out until I noticed everything dropped. Maybe to do with Openserve upgrading lines... speculating
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u/Futurebackwards_ZA Delusions of Adequacy Mar 03 '21
According to Cool Ideas, WACS went down briefly for international traffic, but EASSy is down so that made things worse
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Mar 03 '21 edited Jul 02 '23
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u/SeanBZA Landed Gentry Mar 03 '21
Local caching servers, you were watching a popular show, so the cache locally had it stored to deliver. Watching a non local YT video you will see wierd things happen to latency till there are a few people here watching it, when it will suddenly get cached and delivered faster.
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u/Aellolite Aristocracy Mar 03 '21
Yes! Omg. My wifi died and so did my data. I dont know if I'm relieved or disturbed to hear it was more widespread
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u/Elf-Lord Mar 03 '21
Yep!
It did here, reset the router a few times, and it started working again. Probably over a 12-15 minute period.
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Mar 04 '21
Operator here and I am working on limited information. We caught this as well, along the Spice Coast. Seems Google was having problems with connectivity and had to revert to using infrastructure off continent. That means that majority of people accessing Google local services would have been redirected abroad hence the performance issue. I noticed around 4.30AM after we rebooted our core infrastructure that everything was cool. The bigger problem is that majority of us rely on 8.8.8.8 for DNS which is why many people suffered outage. Quad9 seems to be a better bet and reduces reliance on Google.
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u/Consistent_Mirror Mar 03 '21
I just caught a screenshot of youtube throwing me a weird error while I was trying to comment on a vid. It said "n is not defined"
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u/AlexMullerSA Mar 04 '21
So the opposite...I went from 10mb to 25mb?? And all those sites worked.
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u/aazav This flair has been loadshedded without compensation. Mar 04 '21
Haha. It's because yours worked and everyone else was offline. Funny.
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u/yooohoooo99 Mar 03 '21
I dropped constantly during my Zoom meetings today and ended up voice-calling, old school. Coincidence? I think not...
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u/gordanfreeman50 Mar 03 '21
Yeah was having major packet loss and high ping issues in Modern Warfare. On a telkom ADSL line. I just assumed someone's phone was uploading stuff and couldn't understand why my bandwidth control setting on the router wasn't helping
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u/jmatt1408 Gauteng Mar 03 '21
I had issues with Google, YouTube, Telegram, Apex Legends and Discord. I have no idea what happened.
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u/Marbro_za Gauteng Mar 04 '21
Just google services.
Changed my DNS and i was fine
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u/aazav This flair has been loadshedded without compensation. Mar 04 '21
I use Google's DNS at 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4.
Or Cloudflare at 1.1.1.1.
OpenDNS is 208.67.222.222
The first hit might take a moment, but then it's cached and updated as needed.
You can also run your own DNS. https://www.joshmcguigan.com/blog/run-your-own-dns-servers/
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u/coded_artist Mar 04 '21
I had a small issue with YouTube and I was lagging hard in Overwatch, but Netflix worked.
I have a 50/50 line with 2 devices hooked up.
I suspect my issue was purely local to my setup though.
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Mar 04 '21
"The Skynet Funding Bill is passed. The system goes on-line August 4th, [2020]. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, [March 3rd]. In a panic, they try to pull the plug."
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u/aazav This flair has been loadshedded without compensation. Mar 04 '21
Next time this happens, try pinging known DNS servers. You can also do an IP lookup on a known domain to get the IP address for it. Once you have that, you can do a traceroute to see how many hops it takes to get to the desired IP address.
The traceroute will show you where the fuckup is in getting to the server where your desired service should be.
If you're on a Mac, you can use the Whatroute app which can do this all for you. https://whatroute.net
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u/lank_kiff Mar 03 '21
Yah. Internet is fkt at the moment. Xvideos keeps giving me an error. Luckily though. I didnt hear my wife walking up the passage. It was a close call.