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2008/08/08 - Slow Internet Access
There seems to be a problem with Rhodes' connection to TENET, which is causing slow access to the Internet from Rhodes. We'll report it and provide any feedback that we receive.
We've received the following explanation from TENET:

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Communication between sites that connect to TENET's gateway in Johannesburg ("Reefhead") and our gateway in Cape Town ("Breehead") has been disrupted by an MTU problem on the Neotel MPLS network. This has effectively segmented the GEN3 [network] into two parts, neither able to communicate effectively with the other. Neotel are working on the resolving the problem.
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