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A two day old iburst user and taking note from the help desk the person there said my RWIN should be 300,000 (though I always read that is hould be a multiple of MTU,

so speed yesterday was
dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-09-05 07:34:00 EST:
104 / 17
Your download speed : 104 kbps or 13 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 17 kbps or 2.2 KB/sec

Today, with changing modem to other side of house I get
dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-09-06 07:35:08 EST:
248 / 68
Your download speed : 248 kbps or 31.1 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 68 kbps or 8.5 KB/sec.

From the dslreports archive http://www.dslreports.com/archive/co.za?s=248&r=153 it seems ok.

The iburst speed test says I get 157kbps which is somewhere between the two.


This is much better as a once off speed test - is it within acceptable speed for iburst?
 
I get above 900kbps (1Mbit) on Iburst speed test and i get speed of 100KB/sec on Bittorrent on good seeded torrents and i am on the G9 option
 
Noswal, that sounds very weird, as you are getting higher speeds for international than local there.

I sugest you run the Iburst or Telkom speed test a few more times.

Also, I dont think you should listen to that RWIN setting, you can try the settings in Seburn's (I think) sig, they are : (using DrTCP) MTU: 1352, RWIN: 255555, wscale: on, tstamp: off, select Acks: yes, mtu path disc: yes, black hole: no, max dupl Ack: 1, ttl: 64

I use those, it doesnt make a huge amount of differance, they most important thing is that you set the MTU on your router or Iburst connection to 1352.

I currently have 3-4 lights signal and get 400kb+ during the day, around 600-700 night time. You might also want to try those test a bit later than 7pm, it only starts getting better around then and keeps increaseing till early morning.
 
Hmm, well moved the modem up to eyelevel, it has LOS to Linksfield and signal is 100% Multithread download of an international 1mb file gave about 40KB/s average speed, far better than sucktech's mywireloss.
 
Finding the sweet spot is a pain in the butt, but it helps enormously. Unfortunately for me it happend to be 30 meters away from my study. So I ran ethernet cable up and through the roof. The modem sits under the eave in a weatherproof container on the opposite side of the house.

noswel, sounds like you could really benefit from using software like Utracestar (if you have .NET) or Eyeburst (if you have Java). It turns finding the best spot for your modem from an art to a sicence.
 
Ja, 40kb still sint much, especially for 100% signal. you should try some more tricks and check the load on that tower. You could also try an antenna, but doesnt sound like you need one at all.

Btw, OT, did you know that evene when a Iburst modem has apparently no signal (i.e. the starus light is red and no green ones) you can still be connected. I unplugged my antenna today and got that.. ping times werent THAT bad.. speeds were though.
 
i dont look at speed tests anymore cuz i have noticed if i download a file my speed steadily increases to about 60-70KB/s where as speed tests seldom reflect the capabilities of my connection.

moving an antenna about defintly helps... invest in an external antenna, find out where your local iburst antenna sits and mout it so they can talk to each other.
 
I see the same with halicon. The speedtests seldom reflect what I actually download at. I'm guessing it has to do with multi-thread.
 
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