kyalami tower answers and some questions

Well I am sure you all know about my probs with iburst... but this isnt an iburst bashing thread cuz i promised i wouldnt do those anymore.

I have a couple of questions and answers.

Firstly I stayed home one morning during the week and found my iBurst connection doing remarkably well... around about 50-60KB/s average on telkom speed test. Even international was doing well.

This maintains even during the day even during the week. However at night come dusk the connection starts getting degraded.

I want to ask if you think this might have anything to do with the cold and night time. I know RF signals do weird things at night compared to the day... or am i sucking crap outta my thumb?

I did eventually get a second level support person from Iburst to come to my house to help resolve a couple of issues. He was a great help in determining where to put my antenna for the best results. So kudo's to 2nd level.

I havent done this yet... but will be in the future.

He also informed me that Kyalami Tower is in fact one of Ibursts busiests towers in Gauteng and they are making plans to sort this out.

Thanks Iburst... you have restored faith where i thought i might not ever have again.

to determine your rf signal ping the first terminating point of the iBurst netwrok. For CPT its 172.17.0.100, for Jozi, just do a tracert and the first IP is your entry point.. check your pings to this server, if the time becomes larger, the the tower is conjested, or, there might be something else at fault... eg RF

Well speeds for everyone are usually much better during the night time, dont see why your would degrade.

Pretty strange.. cant help with RF signal im afraid..

halicon said:

I want to ask if you think this might have anything to do with the cold and night time. I know RF signals do weird things at night compared to the day... or am i sucking crap outta my thumb?

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From my experience the slowdowns on Kyalami have nothing to do with RF. My signal strength always remains pretty constant, so I would assume the problems have to do with simple load/congestion. Time for iBurst to increase its capacity.

PS was at the Castle for lunch today & went to check out the setup ... besides the iBurst 'crown of thorns' antenna, there is tons of other RF (& possibly laser) equip on their roofs. They must be making a tidy sum renting 'high site' space.