HelterSkelter
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How is shaping in Jozi these days? My line got upped to 4Mbps, thinking of moving from 2Mbps Business to 4Mbps Gold uncapped.
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HapticSimian
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Shyte, still. Pretty much a solid 18.8/6.25 during daylight hours in the week, and weekends dropping to 50/25 often and for extended periods.
HelterSkelter
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Thanks will stick to the 2Mbps Business then.
Still too much than what we'd like to ideally see - it is easing more at night now that what it was though
Welcome to MyBB, that's a pretty awesome first post you have right there
Thanks for the kudos!
Are you watching the same streams?
We've seen very mixed reports about Twitch - some of their channels are very bandwidth hungryEven 10Mbps accounts battle to stream certain streams as it seems to want to use 900KB/s.
I would understand that if my line was maxing out and it still stuttered. The problem is my line is using a quarter of its speed and the streams are lagging. i.e. On my 4mb line the streams never go above 120kbps (monitoring using performance monitor [dunno how accurate that is]) where I would expect them to get to 300-400kbps like my downloads and torrents do (the things that are shaped are going faster then the realtime
).Perhaps it is just an issue with twitch. But as stated I never used to have this problem till these capacity issues etc. May just be a coincidence, In which case I apologise for all vitriol spewed so far
I would understand that if my line was maxing out and it still stuttered. The problem is my line is using a quarter of its speed and the streams are lagging. i.e. On my 4mb line the streams never go above 120kbps (monitoring using performance monitor [dunno how accurate that is]) where I would expect them to get to 300-400kbps like my downloads and torrents do (the things that are shaped are going faster then the realtime
Perhaps it is just an issue with twitch. But as stated I never used to have this problem till these capacity issues etc. May just be a coincidence, In which case I apologise for all vitriol spewed so far
Are you able to replicate the buffering on other streaming services?
Ive tried testing now on Ustream.com 720p (+-200kbps)
new.livestream.com 720p (+-180kbps)
streaming speedtest at http://streamingmediahosting.com/support/speed_test (+-60kbps)
twitch.tv 720p (+-120kbps)
Normal speedtests and downloads show (380-390kbps).
Updating Java as I read there was an issue with twitch and old java versions. Will update.
Update: Updated Java to latest version and twitch performance has improved drastically. up to 200kbps from 100 as soon as I refreshed after update.
If anyone else is having twitch issues and havent updated their java give it a try. Ill see how it performs at the 6pm-12pm timeframe when it normally has a major issue.
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Hey Guys, does anyone know if telkoms adsl availability checker is working correct? Coz i just checked my current area and it says it's unable to determine speed. And two other places close by which say Service: Not available in green text, and max speeds in those areas are 10mbps. Any ideas?
It can be a bit of a hit and miss at times.
Drop me a PM with your number and I'll see what your line can sync to
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Very useful, but the local speedtest does not seem to work for me.
It can be a bit of a hit and miss at times.
Drop me a PM with your number and I'll see what your line can sync to
Hi AfriGuy, my line is fine. I just want to know if the area i'm moving to has available ADSL.
Capped
International Speedtest
Downloaded 5120.0 kilobytes in 5 seconds. (919.71 KB/s)
Local Speedtest
Downloaded 8775.2 kilobytes in 12 seconds. (706.76 KB/s)
Uncapped
International Speedtest
Downloaded 5120.0 kilobytes in 28 seconds. (177.84 KB/s)
Local Speedtest
Downloaded 8775.2 kilobytes in 11 seconds. (761.47 KB/s)
No shaping applied - strange? Once again its doing this?
International Speedtest
Downloaded 5120.0 kilobytes in 5 seconds. (919.71 KB/s)
Local Speedtest
Downloaded 8775.2 kilobytes in 12 seconds. (706.76 KB/s)
Uncapped
International Speedtest
Downloaded 5120.0 kilobytes in 28 seconds. (177.84 KB/s)
Local Speedtest
Downloaded 8775.2 kilobytes in 11 seconds. (761.47 KB/s)
No shaping applied - strange? Once again its doing this?
Nope, but I am at work. Might be a firewall somewhere. Will try again when I get home.
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