8ta int. is crap

[Xarog]

Local.



International.

But the funny thing is, I don't recall signing up for 8ta dialup?

 

[themba990]

Yup it sure is. If only it was not so crap but consistent. Now it fluctuates wildly but 99% of the time, it's crap

 

[HOLY MAnIAC]

now if i could only keep mine connected, have been having troubles getting it to connect even though it shows full signal

 

[ahf]

Yip international crappy speeds, but see below test done this morning not bad wish it could be like this allday

INTERNATIONAL
Test conducted on 04 February 2012 04:47:03

Download Speed: 2690 kbps (336.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 654 kbps (81.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 377 ms

 

[Lurking]

By far the best local latency for me but international is pathetic. Lets see that ping drop under 300ms and download speeds over 3Mbps please...atleast

 

[Xarog]

Yip international crappy speeds, but see below test done this morning not bad wish it could be like this allday

INTERNATIONAL
Test conducted on 04 February 2012 04:47:03

Download Speed: 2690 kbps (336.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 654 kbps (81.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 377 ms

Test conducted on 04 February 2012 06:48:13 AM

Download Speed: 170 kbps (21.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 482 kbps (60.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 386 ms

This is what I got. Which part of SA do you stay?

 

[BGE]

Check this out... excellent latency with pathetic download/upload speeds:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1751278548.png

 

[RichardG]

Remember that 8ta uses telkom infrastructure. So if they congested with plenty of users you will experience such degraded services.

I will give 8ta a bash this coming week and see for myself how it performs - by reading the forum and seeing many people complain seems like the service is terrible.

 

[sajunky]

I will give 8ta a bash this coming week and see for myself how it performs - by reading the forum and seeing many people complain seems like the service is terrible.

Not true. It was few problems in the past, corrected promptly, a recent one started on Feb 1st, the second day it has been fixed (after midday), but it came back. Since yesterday afternoon network is running smooth.

 

[Stokstert]

International:

Test1

Test conducted on 04 February 2012 16:28:59

Download Speed: 6575 kbps (821.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 461 kbps (57.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 370 ms


Test 2:

Test conducted on 04 February 2012 16:30:23

Download Speed: 8326 kbps (1040.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 558 kbps (69.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 373 ms


Nice speeds here.

 

[Lurking]

Why is the local latency brilliant for wireless, say 40-50ms but over 370ms for international? I'm sure with vodacom I got about 300ms international and around 90-100ms local -excluding cape town servers. I know international will always be a high latency but 370ms is a joke and unplayable.

 

[Hogrod]

When this happened late last year, we all agreed to spam hellopeter. A few days later it came right as they rolled back the changes they made to the network that caused the degradation in service.
Suggest you log a complaint on there.

 

[Telkom]

Local.



International.

But the funny thing is, I don't recall signing up for 8ta dialup?

Hi
We would like to investigate.
Please email your 8ta number, contact details and physical address to [email protected].
Please refer to this thread and mention your username (and MyBroadband) in the subject line.
Thank you
8ta

 

[Telkom]

Yup it sure is. If only it was not so crap but consistent. Now it fluctuates wildly but 99% of the time, it's crap

now if i could only keep mine connected, have been having troubles getting it to connect even though it shows full signal

Yip international crappy speeds, but see below test done this morning not bad wish it could be like this allday

INTERNATIONAL
Test conducted on 04 February 2012 04:47:03

Download Speed: 2690 kbps (336.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 654 kbps (81.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 377 ms

By far the best local latency for me but international is pathetic. Lets see that ping drop under 300ms and download speeds over 3Mbps please...atleast

Check this out... excellent latency with pathetic download/upload speeds:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1751278548.png

Hi
We would like to investigate.
Please email your 8ta number, contact details and physical address to [email protected].
Please refer to this thread and mention your username (and MyBroadband) in the subject line.
Thank you
8ta

 

[ahf]

Ah! 8ta Rep back

 

[ahf]

Not sure what the 8ta Rep did but hell check my int speed

Thanks 8ta!

Test conducted on 06 February 2012 18:32:40

Download Speed: 3404 kbps (425.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 1202 kbps (150.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 388 ms

 

[Effjh]

Well my international ping has been very erratic tonight. Doing a ping to yahoo.co.uk it jumps between 200ms and over 500ms. Thats a massive amount of jitter! I can't game online because of this, it's a horrible experience. Kinda getting fed up now tbh.....too many problems and glitches and inconsistent latency/speeds the last couple of weeks. Everyone have had issues, obviously their network in general is in need of some major overhauling.

 

[Lurking]

Im getting 300ms and 5Mbps international @ 2:30am. Will test later today

 

[Necrotic]

AI tog!.. When it works its great!, but Those times are few and far between...Local pings always 50-60ms..now its 50ms then suddenly 140+ms...international pings on good day to bbc.co.uk 198-220ms... now its anything from 400-600 or even 1000ms.
Sure something on 8ta tower i connected too is Foooked. Friend of mine also on 8Ta (different tower) is cruising on int.pings of 200 to bbc.co.uk.

signal strength -85bd.... How can I solve this other that getting a Cell C Sim ?
Port Elizabeth!

 

[sajunky]

AI tog!.. When it works its great!, but Those times are few and far between...Local pings always 50-60ms..now its 50ms then suddenly 140+ms...

The same in JHB from Feb 1st. Cel C had different problems, but once connected feed was more stable and wake up from idle was instant.

ping mybroadband.co.za

Pinging mybroadband.co.za [41.203.21.137] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 41.203.21.137: bytes=32 time=47ms TTL=53
Reply from 41.203.21.137: bytes=32 time=45ms TTL=53
Reply from 41.203.21.137: bytes=32 time=43ms TTL=53
Reply from 41.203.21.137: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=53

Ping statistics for 41.203.21.137:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 42ms, Maximum = 47ms, Average = 44ms;