About Luke7777

Yip, neither one of mine has shown any movement. Luckily Netflix works.... ... View more

@Optimist wrote: @Luke7777 wrote: @Optimist wrote:   Now I get the same CU-being-loaded message sometimes that others have reported, when trying to enter the CU sections Been having the same from time to time. Will do it, 5 min later it's fine, then 5 min later it's screwed again I've had my Remote Recording setting off again, haven't seen this problem since...     I tend to use that functionality every now and then :) ... View more

@Optimist wrote:   Now I get the same CU-being-loaded message sometimes that others have reported, when trying to enter the CU sections Been having the same from time to time. Will do it, 5 min later it's fine, then 5 min later it's screwed again ... View more

I hope all the useful info in this thread alone will end up in a sticky somewhere.... ... View more

I just use my own :D :) :(  ... View more

@Grace_DStv1 wrote: @Luke7777- we are, and have all the departments involved working on a fix.    if you say so... and btw... you've been fixing this for years. As I've mentioned, you're not communicating with us...  "working on a fix" week in , week out  just doesn't cut it any more   Sorry ... View more

@andrewgerm wrote: My downloads yesterday afternoon went okay, and I was able to watch them last night. Hopefully MC will / have / are taking note of this thread, and will finally sort this! Wait for the weekend :)  What's sad is that there has been no interaction from any of the MC staff this week in any of the CU problem threads :( ... View more

@GeoffD wrote: In fact it focusses the attention firmly on MCs internal setups and poor configurations.   This is what they don't seem to (or don't want to) understand. We're not sitting on dial-up modems any more....  ... View more

Just a note.. when I still had ADSL and could test multiple ISPs,  explora.dstvcdn.com resolved differently between Mweb and AH. Some changes were made middle of last year in the handling of traffic from AH and there was a huge improvement ... View more

@Geoff   -  Your IP tracert 143.204.165.142 is incorrect, should be 143.204.65.142   Btw, here is my stats to the 2ms server :)  So ... getting close .. Tracing route to server-143-204-19-231.jnb50.r.cloudfront.net [143.204.19.231] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms dlinkrouter [192.168.0.1] 2 * * * Request timed out. 3 5 ms 4 ms 4 ms jhb-up1.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.5] 4 5 ms 4 ms 4 ms 169-1-5-202.ip.afrihost.co.za [169.1.5.202] 5 13 ms 20 ms 4 ms jhb-net1.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.52] 6 4 ms 3 ms 4 ms 169-1-5-74.ip.afrihost.co.za [169.1.5.74] 7 4 ms 5 ms 4 ms 196-60-9-105.ixp.joburg [196.60.9.105] 8 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 52.93.56.72 9 5 ms 4 ms 4 ms 52.93.56.83 10 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 52.93.56.251 11 * * * Request timed out. 12 * * * Request timed out. 13 * * * Request timed out. 14 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms server-143-204-19-231.jnb50.r.cloudfront.net [143.204.19.231] Trace complete.   ... View more

Interesting how AfrihostOpenserve resolves differently from Vox ... View more

Just tried one of the Vault titles .. Dogfights..  Downloaded about 280MB , then disconnected with Server Error   Tracing route to explora.dstvcdn.com [143.204.65.142] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms dlinkrouter [192.168.0.1] 2 * * * Request timed out. 3 7 ms 4 ms 4 ms jhb-up1.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.5] 4 6 ms 5 ms 4 ms jhb-rx1.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.18] 5 6 ms 4 ms 4 ms jhb-net1.ip.adsl.co.za [169.1.5.52] 6 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 169-1-5-74.ip.afrihost.co.za [169.1.5.74] 7 4 ms 4 ms 4 ms 41.169.57.218 8 5 ms 5 ms 5 ms be5.lza-pe2-jhb.liquidtelecom.net [77.246.56.248] 9 24 ms 24 ms 24 ms Bundle-Ether20-p4-jhb.liquidtelecom.net [41.60.135.92] 10 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms tengig0-3-0-7-pe1-cpt.liquidtelecom.net [41.60.135.95] 11 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms 77.246.57.155 12 24 ms 24 ms 24 ms 52.93.57.104 13 23 ms 23 ms 23 ms 52.93.57.115 14 23 ms 22 ms 23 ms 52.93.57.187 15 * * * Request timed out. 16 * * * Request timed out. 17 * * * Request timed out. 18 24 ms 23 ms 24 ms explora.dstvcdn.com [143.204.65.142] Trace complete.   This started well at over 10Mbps..  and died http://explora.dstvcdn.com/test.bin 0 B/s - 274 MB of 9.5 GB   and again.. same start// http://explora.dstvcdn.com/test.bin 0 B/s - 272 MB of 9.5 GB    After this , test.bin not downloading any more... tired I guess ... View more

The timing of the latest 504 errors in the other thread and this is probably related...   ... View more

Here we go again... Lethal Weapon and Vault Prehistoric Humans...  trying to watch both just terminating with a 504 error...    test.bin is failing, etc  .... oh wait, it's probably peak hour   test (1).bin   Failed - Server problem http://explora.dstvcdn.com/test.bin ... View more

Vault actually has some interesting stuff in there...  Nature's Fury Ep1 dealt with tsunamis.. downloaded the rest for further viewing ... View more

  @Optimist wrote: The thing is, will this feedback ever reach the bigger ears that need to hear it, and even if it does will it make the slightest difference to the usual stubborn / hands-tied management involved? I expect it will be the same as usual next week, and the week after that, and...   To quote another Forumite; Winter is coming MC. He said he will give feedback to the powers that be. Whether that will make any diffs , who knows ?   ... View more

@Grace_DStv1 wrote: @Luke7777- frustrating, we understand. Testing will be done, just confirming with the field services dept on that and update you. Checking on that buffering issue. So the field services guy paid me a visit. Very nice guy. He was told that I had constant issues. Nothing about CU+, peak hour, etc etc. So I explained the problem, showed him these threads , showed my setup... and we both smiled about having wasted each other's time :)     To MC, firstly you set up your staff for embarrassment by giving them totally wrong info. Secondly,  stop trying to find the problems with our environments and start believing what we tell you about your cashing servers and peak hours.     Btw, this is what a test should look like, not the miserable 2-300Kb (if you're lucky) during buffering hours.  test.bin http://explora.dstvcdn.com/test.bin 20.0 MB/s - 2.8 GB of 9.5 GB, 6 mins left     Enough said ... View more

@GeoffD wrote: Krugie has indentified the only work around available at the moment..... Switch off reboot, go back to go, do not collect 200...... What is needed, is someone to FIX the core issue ....... Although this was not the 504 error issue, but something equally annoying that pops up from time to time ... View more

@Optimist wrote: In the past MC have moderated for talk like that on their forum, may be best to discuss privately ;-) I thought this is now a community forum... users helping each other :D ... View more

@Uel_M wrote: @Luke7777 any legal suggestions for me to try? I'm already on Netflix and Showmax but any others that are worthwhile for me to explore? Those 2 should keep you busy :)  ... View more

Not bad, will probably keep on watching it on CU. ... View more

@BlueFly wrote: It is becoming clear that the MC infrastructure is not up to the task in peak periods. I sure hope that they start investing that profit in providing a reliable service. At the speed fibre infrastructure is being rolled out, and other, better value for money streaming providers are ALREADY an option, MC is going to be put under a lot of pressure.   Winter is coming... Fixed that for you :) ... View more

@andrewgerm wrote:   @ltshizane_DStv1 any chance we could get a server name / IP to do a trace to, just to eliminate routing issues? See the other 2 threads regarding buffering.... this one in particular.. ... View more

@Uel_M wrote: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children     But again, my original question was not about this specific case but about MCs overall plan to upgrade your infrastructure?     That would mean that they have to acknowledge they have a problem... :)     ... View more

Really ??  Same as cavaliersa, just different titles ... View more

test.bin   Failed - Server problem http://explora.dstvcdn.com/test.bin   update 12:21   Started, got up to 5Mbps at one point, ran for about 2 min, fluctuating between 400Kb and 3Mbps. Then... dead...nothing...nada     ... View more

Same here... multiple 504s on various titles. Even had a Download Server error 10min ago. Still trying to download Code Black eps since last night   Again server download error right now  (after doing more than 1Gb at my normal dl speed) ... I give up ... View more