<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by dorris</i>
bb_matt, By the sounds of turtles posts, specially the one Posted - 05/08/2004 : 19:03:35, it sounds like we have more users than we think about that are in the know, take said post, and replace sentech/their with we/our.
No hard feelings[:I]
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Nope, I'm definitely not with Sentech (no hard feelings though
.. I did a get a *little* bit of "inside info" from a "someone I know who knows someone in Sentech" type of thing, regarding the ICASA freq. transmission violations, but I have no idea if that's related to the current problems. It's not impossible though, although my gut feel says it's probably something else.
I know some have responded to my posts with "all we want is to know what's going on", and that's fine and valid, but I was more responding to those who had jumped straight to lawsuits and accusations of fraud! I agree fully that Sentech *should* make at least some or other statement regarding the problems, and they're screwing themselves with bad publicity by not doing so. Even if for some reason they're not allowed to disclose what the problems are, they should at least acknowledge that there is a problem, that they're working on it, etc. And IMHO, it is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE for the call center to *lie* to customers. EVER.
OK, I've just done some speed tests myself, and seems my BW is also definitely NOT what it was just several days ago:
Communications 37.3 kilobits per second
Storage 4.6 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 3.7 minutes
Subjective rating Slow
I'm also doing a download now from http://tucows.saix.net/, and I'm averaging about 4 to 5 KBytes/sec, and it's not consistent, i.e. going down sometimes to about 1 or 2 KB, and up to about 8 or 9 KB sometimes. (This is at 3 a.m. when things should normally be pretty quiet).
If I stop downloading and only ping, the pings are also going 'up and down' a bit more than I remember they used to:
Pinging www.sentech.co.za [66.18.65.115] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 66.18.65.115: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=252
Reply from 66.18.65.115: bytes=32 time=141ms TTL=252
Reply from 66.18.65.115: bytes=32 time=125ms TTL=252
Reply from 66.18.65.115: bytes=32 time=188ms TTL=252
Reply from 66.18.65.115: bytes=32 time=141ms TTL=252
Reply from 66.18.65.115: bytes=32 time=141ms TTL=252
Reply from 66.18.65.115: bytes=32 time=125ms TTL=252
Reply from 66.18.65.115: bytes=32 time=63ms TTL=252
Reply from 66.18.65.115: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=252
Reply from 66.18.65.115: bytes=32 time=78ms TTL=252
Request timed out.
Reply from 66.18.65.115: bytes=32 time=94ms TTL=252
Reply from 66.18.65.115: bytes=32 time=110ms TTL=252
Web pages though don't "feel" very slow, but do feel a bit slower than usual (it was hard for me to tell earlier today because I was wget'ing a website in the background). I'm definitely not "waiting 10 minutes" for pages to load though. It does still seem that my BW is better than some other people's still. I wonder if it has anything to do with me not having disconnected/reconnected to the network for almost 13 days now, e.g. new settings getting applied when a person connects. Although that seems unlikely.
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