128 - international speed "capped" ?

[bb_matt]

For some reason, I now always get 4.7k per second international download speeds - it never goes above this level.

It's been like that for a few weeks. Local speeds have improved (this is confirmed in the brief info so far about this sentech meeting I read about)

So, basically, I'm stuck at 56.6k modem speeds internationally.

I guess Sentech feel that this is fair in the interum until they "maybe" start sharing bandwidth like a real ISP

The mind boggles that a company ends up in a meeting with some of it's power users so those users can tell them what they are doing wrong !

 

[MrJones]

Yeah and Sentech is getting free expert consultation from its power users who would probably charge an arm and a leg in the real world.

Sometime when we are stuck in a support situation and nobody knows whats going on, we send a techie over to put the client at ease. We don't have a clue to how to fix the thing, but ith someone there, we can put the client at ease.

All they are doing is humouring us. We are paying beta testers. Hey that would be a good site payingbetatesters dot com.

Telkom who?

 

[Billy]

I was getting between 10-11kBs this morning at about 07:00 from Mintek on 128. This is the best international speed that I have seen since May. Was this a fluke or are they getting it right?

 

[Light]

I'm on Mintek (I assume, being in Randburg) and I was getting terrible speeds (+/- 3kB/s) on a local connection. Go figure.

 

[arf9999]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Billy</i>
<br />I was getting between 10-11kBs this morning at about 07:00 from Mintek on 128. This is the best international speed that I have seen since May. Was this a fluke or are they getting it right?
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You were probably downloading from Sentech's proxy...



MW128, Tower <b>60</b>(Northpark Plaza), Signal:16%,S-N-L: 7, BER: 45%

 

[Billy]

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You were probably downloading from Sentech's proxy...

Not unless they are have BOINC/Seti files in their proxy

 

[regardtv]

From what I'm seeing with SETI and other very small packages there may be some bursting support on the Sentech links....

 

[arf9999]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by regardtv</i>
<br />From what I'm seeing with SETI and other very small packages there may be some bursting support on the Sentech links....
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Hi Regardt,

Can you explain this? I'm not so sure I understand (and I ain't seen no bursting on international, no way, no how, nowhere!)

 

[regardtv]

It may have been coincidence but I've noticed it twice so far this week. When i try fetch a small file I get a 12-13K spike. It is of such short duration that my BW monitors don't even show it.

But in that moment I get a fair chunk of the data I need. The TCP session is closed; A new one opened; And another very short burst.

I'm busy looking around for some testing tools that could provide additional explanantions

 

[arf9999]

I've often seen a high kB/s number as I start a http download thru Firefox, but i thought that it was just a measurement error by firefox, it always settles after about 3 seconds and does not show up on my graphs.

 

[gripen]

whats happening is that as with IE, the file is already downloading in the background. It takes a few seconds before (TCP?) the speed starts (I guess) halving and slowing down waiting for you to click GO / save. It always spikes in the start for this reason since the calculations are messed up for a short while. I have seen a file half downloaded by the time I clicked save. No spiking on the connection unfortunately. As with package cap there is just no way (without local proxying) to beat the cap.

<font size="1"><center>** still capped at <b>48kbps</b> and who knows for how long ** <font color="green"> proof </font id="green"></center></font id="size1">

 

[regardtv]

Not in the case of SETI and some of the other testing tools I use Greedy.

 

[gripen]

Yip but with the browsers thats typical. It could ba cache somewhere that is also prefetching but I guess you would have guess that [] assuming you were running some kind of caching proxy

<font size="1"><center>** still capped at <b>48kbps</b> and who knows for how long ** <font color="green"> proof </font id="green"></center></font id="size1">

 

[Brolloks]

What I've seen that makes me wonder about the cap is that I can donwload a file on ftp (GetRight) and it will start at 30k/sec and slow down to anything from 0.5k/sec to 20k/sec. This is all on MW128. It does seem then that a cap would limit the maximum, meaning on a graph it would show up as a flat top instead of spikes. Not true?