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At the MyBB conference rpm gave iBurst a hard time about 1 Mb/s and the rage was all about Telkom's 10 Mb/s DSLAMs.

However, the major ADSL product being sold is still 384 kb/s?

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Saw this today when I dropped off my lawnmower for repair.
 
Naughty telkom they aren't allowed to call their 384k fast internet anymore. That should be taken down according to the ASA ruling should it not?
 
ok, so is technically impossible for iburst to deliver a faster speed or is just cost of new equipment that prohibits it?
 
Two maybe three years ago whispers from inside the company had it that Iburst was going to upgrade to 2Mbit/s. That would mean new hardware. I don't think the Iburst technology can go any faster than 2Mbits/s even if upgraded.
 
1024Kbps should be the absolute minimum....
 
This pic misses something... I'll take it for an edit.
 
nevstarwader said:
Two maybe three years ago whispers from inside the company had it that Iburst was going to upgrade to 2Mbit/s. That would mean new hardware. I don't think the Iburst technology can go any faster than 2Mbits/s even if upgraded.
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acording to wikipedia its maximum could be 5Mbps :) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iburst
Apparently there will be future firmware upgrade possibilities to increase these speeds up to 5 Mbit/s, consistent with HC-SDMA protocol.
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imagine, if that were posible or just proof that wikipedia can be Bs sometimes?
 
So the iBurst *can* deliver a higher speed than the majority of ADSL lines actually sold (presuming 384k & 512k lines on average) ..ok, that's fair. So what answer do they have to how ADSL has, to all intents and purposes, gone uncapped: what differentiator ..and by that I mean MEANINGFUL differentiator.. do iBurst bring?
 
bdt said:
So the iBurst *can* deliver a higher speed than the majority of ADSL lines actually sold (presuming 384k & 512k lines on average) ..ok, that's fair. So what answer do they have to how ADSL has, to all intents and purposes, gone uncapped: what differentiator ..and by that I mean MEANINGFUL differentiator.. do iBurst bring?
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iBurst is wireless after all, it is incredibly limited resource. Why iBurst is outperformed/more popular than ADSL:
1) Gamers. High latency. ADSL can get sub 20ms (with nearly no jitter -- both local and international), while iBurst is above 40ms (with jitter about 10ms local and 50ms-100ms on international). Gamers won't touch wireless. It's technological limit!
2) Reliability. Speed is same mostly, without dropping in middle and constant speeds. I cannot stream videos for that reason, even bitrate is smaller than It's technological limit over distance "coverage dependant". Much worse that line attenuation (I have very unstable dial-up speeds), currently, it is same distance from exchange and tower, yet I could have 512k instead of dial-up.
3) Downloaders. Can work on any protocols without limits, no "current IP downloading already" junk from rapidshare-like services and no limit on streams with P2P. It's technological limit or rather provider limit, other wireless providers don't do that, even if they are uncapped.

Even is iBurst was uncapped, I would not touch it -- I cannot use it to full. Unless for browsing, wireless has no future. Fixed line is the future.
 
bdt said:
So the iBurst *can* deliver a higher speed than the majority of ADSL lines actually sold (presuming 384k & 512k lines on average) ..ok, that's fair. So what answer do they have to how ADSL has, to all intents and purposes, gone uncapped: what differentiator ..and by that I mean MEANINGFUL differentiator.. do iBurst bring?
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iBurst has had uncapped since inception. http://www.iburst.co.za/neuvo.aspx?link=get_addons_uncapped (In a few months another speed will be added to the mix)

Uncapped provides a poor network experience for the subscriber base as it congests the access medium. In a correctly demand managed network the price of this service needs to be higher to prevent what is happening currently with the ADSL network which is suffering (and ISPs then conveniently blame Telkom)

We are providing better value on capped services including a better rollover (currently up to a maximum of 3 x the base allocation which will also be increased going forward) A capped service with a good rollover deal will become a better price option. What rollover do the other guys have?
 
Jagtiger said:
iBurst is wireless after all, it is incredibly limited resource. Why iBurst is outperformed/more popular than ADSL:
1) Gamers. High latency. ADSL can get sub 20ms (with nearly no jitter -- both local and international), while iBurst is above 40ms (with jitter about 10ms local and 50ms-100ms on international). Gamers won't touch wireless. It's technological limit!
2) Reliability. Speed is same mostly, without dropping in middle and constant speeds. I cannot stream videos for that reason, even bitrate is smaller than It's technological limit over distance "coverage dependant". Much worse that line attenuation (I have very unstable dial-up speeds), currently, it is same distance from exchange and tower, yet I could have 512k instead of dial-up.
3) Downloaders. Can work on any protocols without limits, no "current IP downloading already" junk from rapidshare-like services and no limit on streams with P2P. It's technological limit or rather provider limit, other wireless providers don't do that, even if they are uncapped.

Even is iBurst was uncapped, I would not touch it -- I cannot use it to full. Unless for browsing, wireless has no future. Fixed line is the future.
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ADSL is copper after all. It is stolen and klapped by lightning so it becomes limited and unreliable. Never mind that in some areas installation is not possible or waiting times extremely long.

There are 10k gamers active on iBurst Wireless and VoIP works like a charm.
 
r00igev@@r said:
ADSL is copper after all. It is stolen and klapped by lightning so it becomes limited and unreliable. Never mind that in some areas installation is not possible or waiting times extremely long.

There are 10k gamers active on iBurst Wireless and VoIP works like a charm.
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VoIP works like charm even on GPRS, it's checked, but jittery on iBurst with weird space sounds -- not fan of industrial space music.

Gaming? Serious? My house test says that it is fail. If anyone touches iBurst connection on same shared network, it lags and gaming becomes useless. And if I'm alone on network, it still lags and spikes a lot, maybe not during night when I'm supposed to sleep.
 
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Jagtiger said:
VoIP works like charm even on GPRS, it's checked, but jittery on iBurst with weird space sounds -- not fan of industrial space music.

Gaming? Serious? My house test says that it is fail. If anyone touches iBurst connection on same shared network, it lags and gaming becomes useless. And if I'm alone on network, it still lags and spikes a lot, maybe not during night when I'm supposed to sleep.
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VoIP is crystal clear on not jittery on iBurst. I suspect there is a problem on your rig.

If your are on the edge of coverage then you'll have issues but within that area there are 299 people closer to the tower without issues.

What do your ping and speed tests look like?

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1134010565.png
http://www.pingtest.net/result/33403904.png
 
It looks like that, on weekdays it looks much worse. Not mentioning international. :sick:



What coverage range in km?
 
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