Antenna

[tanka]

Recently I got fed up with all the lag when playing online with iBurst so I saw in this forum with people talking about antennas.
This is was my readings:

I decided to contact radient antennas and the recommended the Ray 1800/17

So I bought it. I placed it on my roof and the first place I put it I get these readings

I didn't even know utTrace Star had green couloring
I will do signal testing tomorrow to see if I can get this even better.
My I recorded a ping of 25 in Battlefield 2142

I would recommend these for any one who is looking for an antenna!

 

[who.is.michael]

Poynting's Yagi, works just as well...

Welcome to the Forum!

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

With a load of 1 and distance 2 km, it looks good.

25ms... a bit hard to believe but well done.

 

[tanka]

Thanks

Trust me I was surprised to see that as well but that was on the local server as night.

 

[prc66]

hi , Where did you get that measuring software?

 

[bdt]

hi , Where did you get that measuring software?

That's utTraceStar ..dl link on page.

 

[BlackWasp]

My settings are more or less as follows:

Signal Strength: -73
Load: 3
Distance: 2km
Rating 8/10 - 9/10

Iburst Bandwith test: +/- 500 kbps down

Would I still benefit from getting one of these antennas? If so, What price range are we looking at?

Regards

 

[who.is.michael]

BlackWasp - Only if you connect to a different tower, Load 3 = overloaded tower... Cost = R600 - R700

tanka, reduce your MTU to 1324, see what your latency does when playing, it should reduce the lag even further, depending on the tower settings...

To test for the best value, ping your first hop – gateway, with the appropriate MTU value.

How to:

Do a trace route to any site: i.e. tracert iburst.co.za

Tracing route to iburst.co.za [196.30.31.120] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 3 ms 66 ms 59 ms wbs-41-208-224-1.wbs.co.za [41.208.224.1]

Then ping to your first hop gateway, starting with a packet size of 576 (Gaming) or 1200 (Browsing / VPN) i.e. ping 41.208.224.1 -l 1200 and increase the packet size with a value of 50 each time till you achieve the lowest latency to your tower.

Then use that value - 40 as your MTU value, however read this first... http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=111

Ping local
*******
Pinging 10.8.0.1 with 1000 bytes of data:Average = 129ms
Pinging 10.8.0.1 with 1100 bytes of data:Average = 133ms
Pinging 10.8.0.1 with 1200 bytes of data:Average = 133ms
Pinging 10.8.0.1 with 1300 bytes of data:Average = 136ms
Pinging 10.8.0.1 with 1324 bytes of data:Average = 149ms
Pinging 10.8.0.1 with 1352 bytes of data:Average = 179ms
Pinging 10.8.0.1 with 1400 bytes of data:Average = 151ms
Pinging 10.8.0.1 with 1492 bytes of data:Average = 158ms
Pinging 10.8.0.1 with 1500 bytes of data:Average = 159ms
Pinging 10.8.0.1 with 1600 bytes of data:Average = 161ms
Pinging 10.8.0.1 with 1700 bytes of data:Average = 153ms

Ping Intl
******
Pinging netgear.com [206.82.202.46] with 1000 bytes of data:Average = 557ms
Pinging netgear.com [206.82.202.46] with 1200 bytes of data:Average = 538ms
Pinging netgear.com [206.82.202.46] with 1250 bytes of data:Average = 568ms
Pinging netgear.com [206.82.202.46] with 1259 bytes of data:Average = 543ms
Pinging netgear.com [206.82.202.46] with 1300 bytes of data:Average = 562ms
Pinging netgear.com [206.82.202.46] with 1324 bytes of data:Average = 551ms
Pinging netgear.com [206.82.202.46] with 1352 bytes of data:Average = 585ms
Pinging netgear.com [206.82.202.46] with 1492 bytes of data:Average = 561ms

With my tower the best MTU would be 1324 - Be sure to connect directly to the UTD when performing these setting, also check the MTU settings of WinXP's NIC & (W)Router, best to use http://www.speedguide.net/files/TCPOptimizer.exe

Although iBurst recommends a MTU value of 1352, as they also recommend Omni antennas, I would suggest you try different values, as I have found each tower is unique and some of the recommended values do deliver poorer results.

Try 1324 this value seems to provide the most consistent lower latency.

If you would like to increase your browsing speed use the standard MTU value for PPPoE which is 1492, but be aware that the MTU values are dependant on your tower, the backhaul ISP settings (IS/UUNet) and that packets are not being fragmented, you are not experiencing any packet loss and that there is minimal congestion on the route.