TCPIQ Test Results

[torgo]

Hi All;

Thought I'd start a thread for tcpiq test results link page, so that people can report their area here with a link to their results page:

Area: Sandton
link: http://www.tcpiq.com/tcpIQ/LineSpeed/Results/TestStats/?CountryId=196&ConnectionId=11302&UserId=148899

[Edinetz]

Area Cape Town CBD
http://www.tcpiq.com/tcpIQ/LineSpeed/Results/TestStats/?CountryId=196&ConnectionId=11302&UserId=147461

[ic]

Area: Bryanston
http://www.tcpiq.com/tcpIQ/LineSpeed/Results/TestStats/?CountryId=196&ConnectionId=11302&UserId=146561

[stepper]

Anybody has an idea how to get the software to work on linux, since my XP is f@*ked up?

[ic]

Anybody has an idea how to get the software to work on linux, since my XP is f@*ked up?LOL - welcome to team derail-a-thread ;)

Been struggling with SWe2 myself - must get back into that today so I can get rid of this awful iBurst s/w for W2KP that spits out silly error messages at me everytime it fails to connect.

Stepper, why not ask that on a Linux thread in this forum, also what distro?

PS: Interesting signature - what happened to your other one about science & stuff, can you add it back in again?

[ghostim]

OK as far as I know the TCPIQ software is only M$ based.
Linux : Smoothwall Express 2 is only firewall nothing else
ic : swe2 admin interface is on http://?.?.?.?:81 the ip address is whatever u assigned to green interface .( When u install it in setup u have to choose green/red not green/red is modem)
Suse 9.x use yast to create a dsl connection.
SWe2 and Suse auto adjust the MTU to 1400.
Knoppix : made a pppoe connection but cant remember how.

[ic]

...ic : swe2 admin interface is on http://?.?.?.?:81 the ip address is whatever u assigned to green interface .( When u install it in setup u have to choose green/red not green/red is modem)Yep, I opted for Green==192.168.1.1 bcos my Windoze is still setup for ICS on 192.168.0.1, so I didn't want to dup 192.168.0.1 on both boxes. Also, I setup my SWe2 for Green+Orange (192.168.2.1 DMZ)+Red (PPPoE). I have tried getting into admin using:
http://192.168.1.1:81 and
http://smoothwall:81 and
https://192.168.1.1:441
Each time I get a connection refused in Fifi and similar in IE6. I've tried from a different Windoze PC, I've disabled firewall s/w on the Windoze PCs (obviously not while connected to the net).

Initially I setup SWe2 DHCP, then I figured disable that in case of Windoze ICS DHCP interference or something, made no diff.

I will run Ethereal & capture the packets & try finding out whats going on.

[ghostim]

Sorry to ask : but u can ping it ?
try to ssh to 192.168.1.1 port 222 (Putty for windoze)

[ghostim]

just remembered 1 thing : swe2 can get tricky with multiple nic's. could be that the nic u think is green aint

[torgo]

Check this out, Cape town user is getting speeds of 400kbps and JHB usere under 200kbps!!!!!

We used to get those speeds in December, ... my gut feel is we now have more users and not enough bandwidth....bu WBS says they have enough???? Why is CT getting those speeds?

Sihen could surely comment on this?????

[slimothy]

ok firstly, lets not read too much into these linespeed tests,

you see if I have a fast connection and I know its a month or less before a cap comes, what will I be doing? thats right downloading 24/7.. now by default linespeed from tcpiq tests your connection 12 times a day at 2 hour intervals. So i might be maxing out my connection on some file i'm downloading and then in the back linespeed starts a test, but its only able to get a mere 20KBps since the file download is hogging all the available bandwith.

reason 2, its not multithread (i love that word), so lets say it uses some sa webserver that only gives out 400kbps per request, I could have a 10mbit connection and I would end up having reported speeds of 400kbps, where as if it let me multithread i could max my connection with multiple requests at the same time.

And cape town only has iBurst in the city center i believe.. which would mean less customers, less customers = less saturation on the tower(s)

[ic]

Yes well I am not downloading all the time - the last downloads I did were on Friday&Saturday combined total of ~180MB; I never run p2p.

Right now my connection is only good for browsing & mostly it stalls on that too (although LSM started to show a slight improvement then a rapid decline again).

You can configure LSM by editing TestResources.txt, which as I understand it is updated during calibration - if you permit calibration.

[ghostim]

Anybody has an idea how to get the software to work on linux, since my XP is f@*ked up?

I'll try and see if it will run under Wine on Linux, but I doubt it

[ic]

[In theory] all you need to get it going under Linux is PPPoE support (AFAIK Stepper has a UTD), unless it's UTC in which case I believe there's an issue with Kernel version 2.6.*, but should work under 2.4.*

[Gary Waterworth]

Where can I get the drivers for Linux ? Mayeb I can work on the prob then and see what can be done.

[ic]

There is an existing Linux PCMCIA drivers thread in this forum, Google for:
+site:mybroadband.co.za +linux +iburst +pcmcia

[stepper]

ic, Distro=Mandrake 9.1 & Ubuntu 4.10
and yes I have a UTD...
Gary W, for me no drivers required UTD connected to Realtek eth0 and uses kppp for Mandrake and pppoeconf for Ubuntu (if u interested heres the link (ftp://mirror.isp.net.au/pub/iburst))

[rabbiddog]

I ran 3 tests today. The last being the fastest on down loads (every one is on there way home). This needs to be taken into considiration.
http://www.tcpiq.com/tcpIQ/LineSpeed/Results/TestStats/?CountryId=196&ConnectionId=11653&UserId=149002

[JL1]

Pretoria Waeverly Connected probably to Sunnypark
http://www.tcpiq.com/tcpIQ/LineSpeed/Results/TestStats/?CountryId=196&ConnectionId=11302&UserId=149344

[rabbiddog]

SA sleeps I can down load. I think Telkom is F*****g us.