15:1 or 30:1 or 1:4 Im confused now?!?!?

[Deon]

Talked to Casper Cassidy today....

His words were

Local is 1:4
International is 30:1

Whats this now about 15:1


Its a case of the blind(sentech) leading the blind(us) because they dont know what the hell is going on so what can they tell us about their product..... they dont even know whats happening in their own company.

The contention on ADSL is 100:1 and they get 70KB/s on a reasonable day
The contention on ISDN 40:1 and they get 20KB/s on a reasonable day

The contention on our "broadband" 15-30:1 we get 6 on 256 and 11 on 512 when the wind blows your way and the sun is shining not too hot and not too cold.

I See a problem.... There is a dry joint somewhere!!!

 

[guest2013-1]

I THINK he means that we're on 15:1 local, and he would like it to go down to 4:1

international I reckon would stay 30:1

Hell, my gran on a scooter with a memory stick is faster than Sentech's MyWireless!

 

[Inevitable]

ok then, would all 29 ppl on Bedfordview tower find another tower so i can have decent download speeds please! PLEASE!!!!!

Glory Glory Man United!

 

[Deon]

We can speculate but what they say and what they do is 2 diff things. this much we KNOW for fact.

 

[loosecannon]

for comparision international providers are 50:1 and publish speeds of 10x 56k on a 512k package ... it is possible unless you have under provisioned that speeds will go higher than 75% on 5 minute average and i fully support a shaping of p2p and smtp traffic to make browsing more responsive and FTP more efficient ... but they dont have enough bandwidth ... endofstory.com

 

[bHOLDher]

This 5k limit is very fixed, it does not really change during the day. I think someone took out a calculator and scribbled a few numbers on a piece of paper and said, we have x amount of users online, and we have y amount of bandwidth. Lets limit everyone to y/x kilobytes per second. If this is even remotely true, we will never be able to use all the bandwidth that we are paying for.

 

[gripen]

that my friend is the problem. we are paying foe shared bandwidth not capped bandwidth.

anyways I couldnt care. We can assume that not everybody will use their 10GB so the 10GB is an average. Thus if I go over 10GB and they call me then I will explain how our contention works. They will need to prove that the average is over 10GB per user before I care. That, my friends, is contention.

<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">

 

[Inevitable]

hell i cant even get there in one month if i try......maybe on local i could but there aint enough local stuff to go around

Glory Glory Man United!

 

[gripen]

thats why we have to go to lengths to share all incoming traffic. I mean there will be common stuff (latest tv shows for example) downloaded (im not promoting piracy.. just an example) that if shared locally will cut down on international traffic.

Well im going to suggest opening up 3Mbps within the mywi network on saturday.

If they can limit our traffic to 10GB then that should at least be on an open uncapped connection. Whatever happened to 2GB a day??

<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">

 

[Deon]

Okay they have bandwidth, they want to force us not to use the bandwidth the hard way.....

X amount of bandwidth, shared between xxx amount of users, to make sure it lasts we will force you all with maximum allowed connection speeds so that you cant possibly mess with our forward planning and bandwidth purchasing.

The loop hole in this is to find others with the same problem......

ADSL users have the same problem when they reach their CAP right, EXCEPT local is always FAST with CAP or no CAP.....

Do we NOT have a few South African NODES for Download for the things we want as the internal links are faster, WORKAROUND to a problem.... I have 300 GB to fill and not alot of time to do it... then I buy another HDD and fill that one, and another, and another, and another......

I get hard drives so cheap I can fill RACKS with em faster than Sentech can buy bandwidth.... IF they want to SOFT CAP "unlimited internet" then we have to find a way around a bandwidth problem....... with so much local free bandwidth around, I propose using it create a SENTECH NODE and let SENTECH USERS get their DOWNLOADS from that, this means 1 user international 1700 users get it local FAST...

Sentech wants to crew us in getting international, then we dont... we keep it local....

 

[JacoD]

But... but... but... but that would give them the impression that we accept their poor intl bandwidth management and they won't give a fsck in trying to make it work because we, the users, have found a very suitable "work-around" (in their opinion)

 

[Deon]

I dont like Windblows XP but with enough whining you get what you want

I dont like Sentech and what they doing but I can make them change with ALOT of other peoples help but until then

Make the best of a crap situation