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My primary concern is that online business does not have working hours. If someone cannot sleep, they get up at 3:34am and stumble through to their computer, and decide to do some online shopping, I would like my shops to be online and available. Is telkom so oblivious to the fact that there is more to busiess that just SA? While it's dark here, it's light somewhere else, and they will be doing business then, not during our daylight hours!! I would at least like to be able to offer my services for 23h59m at least each day, given that renewing my IP may even take as long as a whole minute. Is this really too much to ask for? I asked someone in the US on a 2mbit line to test my homepage, and he couldn't even connect. Is foreign money not welcome in South Africa?
 
Tuesday 29-07-2003 at 15:20

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your speed is

30.45 kbits/sec

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Tuesday, 23:37-23:47
Still waiting for the result...
My little perfmon graph looks like the Dutch mountains.
Average throughput: 411bytes/sec.
So much for the "slower international link".[V]
 
A whopping 11.36 kbits/sec on my ADSL connection at 13:25 today [:(!]

With my MWEB Broadband Satellite linked to the VPN over the ADSL: 115.05 kbits/sec
 
I'm sure .za'ers will be robbed blind dont matter which terestial telecoms product *jaws tune featuring telkom logo*.

As for mithrandi and proxy ideas... hrm, I wonder how scalable squid would be with say a few hundred parent/sibling cache's with the icp bits in - I wonder if there would be ANY performance gain since it is the saix's transproxy's job to do this anyway??

I'm wondering what clients/us actually want faster though? Yes, intl is slow, but what exactly is everybody doing that they want faster that's available to the mainstream (let's leave online classes, etc out of this ). Surely it boils down to everybody downloading big/lots of files for whichever reason, so 1) either do some proxying or 2) see adsl.za as a huge intranet and use the resources within to get what you want.

I'm hugely against p2p from a network point of view (i hate "multicast " being abused :P) but surely the whole multiple-sources thing on our huge 'intranet' would make life quite a bit easier?

Sad that one has to revert to such tactics in such a age..
 
Hi All

I found this site today and have been reading all your forums. I currently live in the UK and has a home broadband connection of 512kb/s dl and 256kb/s ul, always on full speed (actual connection 576kb/s) and with no limits for £29/m. That is +-R340/m...
You can get up to a 2mb/s home connection nowdays here for not much more than what I am paying now.

I will be returning to SA in a few months and will not be able to live with a 56k dial-up connection so PLEAAAAASE sort out this ADSL speed problem before I get back!!!!

you will be in my thoughts tonight when I surf at home...

posbus24
 
your speed is

0.44 kbits/sec

Thats capped ADSL !!! beat that ppl !!

" Your raw speed was 444.76 bits per second "

QubE
 
1.8.2003, 07:00
your speed is 308.09 kbits/sec.
If it were always like this, I would never complain.
 
Hi, tried for a week to do this test...but nothing happened. Probably, because of the freakin cap.

Anyway... 14:24 , 1 Aug.

your speed is

49.8 kbits/sec
 
Hi guys

15:40 on Friday 1 Aug, and I have the admirable speed of 14.85 kbits/s. This would be disappointing even if I was promised a 33.6 analogue connection!

Thanks for all the postings. It makes great reading for people investigating this issue.

Regards,

RPM


RPM
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How exactly do you check the speed of your connection?

"People demand freedom of speech for the freedom of thought they lack"
 
<b>Oh, my WORD!!</b>

Being the beginning of the month, is it unreasonable for me to expect decent speeds from my now supposedly uncapped account?

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your speed is

0.43 kbits/sec

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Is this truely what we can expect from one of Telkom's premier products and service?
 
Now hold it guys. Fair is fair.
Right now, I'm getting squat from the Bandwidth place too.
But for once, we can't blame Telkom. This is what I get from a different site:
Client Date & Time: 03/08/02 00:50:46
Down- and Upload-Test with: support.cybernet.ch

1.) Download small file (file length of 62 kByte)
Download duration : 1462 ms
Measured download data rate for a small file: 350 kBit/s

2.) Download big file (file length of 500 kByte)
Download duration : 10485 ms
Measured download data rate: 390 kBit/s

Not brilliant - but I'm happy enough.
See http://home.cfl.rr.com/eaa/Bandwidth.htm for other speed test sites.
 
Hi Paf

That is excellent speed. One can definitely not complain if that mostly the case. My speed is currently 303 kbits/s…not bad at all. But then it is 2 am in the morning :-)

Regards,

RPM


RPM
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