Bad speed lately

[JayT]

FDM still downloads at 26K/sec so it doesnt really bother me. Just speed tests and checking mail are slow.

 

[Jhbgirl]

Done at 4.25am, will do one during business hours later :

dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-06-13 22:26:12 EST:
196 / 93
Your download speed : 196 kbps or 24.5 KB/sec.

Your upload speed : 93 kbps or 11.7 KB/sec.

and at 10.20am or so...

dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-06-14 04:19:47 EST:
39 / 25
Your download speed : 39 kbps or 4.9 KB/sec.

Your upload speed : 25 kbps or 3.2 KB/sec.

 

[thewanted_]

I'll try out some xbox live downloads later. That's the real test for me!

Still as **** as before.

/seriously pondering ISDN128

 

[bdt]

../seriously pondering ISDN128

As part of that pondering take a long, hard look at what your off-hook time would cost you. I'm sure prices have changed (up!) by now, but I remember call charges as being R30/hr daytime and R10/hr 'callmore', i.e. 7pm-7am ..and you'd be surprised how fast daytime call charges get breathtakingly interesting!

 

[thewanted_]

As part of that pondering take a long, hard look at what your off-hook time would cost you. I'm sure prices have changed (up!) by now, but I remember call charges as being R30/hr daytime and R10/hr 'callmore', i.e. 7pm-7am ..and you'd be surprised how fast daytime call charges get breathtakingly interesting!

I work 12 hours a day so I'm not home to dial-up during the day

Infinitcall would solve my callmore charges. I would get ADSL but they can't provide me with it.

 

[bdt]

I work 12 hours a day so I'm not home to dial-up during the day

Then you stand a fair chance for this kind of change to work for you: it's the people who've become accustomed to being at least connected all the time (irrespective of throughput and the like) who face the frightening Telskum bill at the end of the (first!) month ..you can bet pounds to peanuts they'll learn their lesson for the second month!

 

[thewanted_]

Don't get me wrong, on the odd occasion that I am home early I'm going to miss that 24/7 connectivity. Guess I'll just use the company SIM card and EDGE

My company installed an ISDN line in my house 2 years back and I used it over the past weekend with a SAIX 128kbit account because I'd finally had enough of Sentech.

OMG. You cannot imagine how much better it is. It's night and day difference! Xbox Live downloads max it out and you can still browse at the same time.

It's sad that the more we go forward, the further we fall behind

 

[bHOLDher]

By the way, MTU of 1480 is definitely too high. I keep my MTU at 1458. I forgot that I had this problem before. Everything works fine, but for some strange reason the MTU cannot be calculated to our office server, and then the connection times out. I can send small emails, but cannot receive larger emails. Until I open a web page to the server, then it works. Pretty strange.

I changed my MTU back down to 1458 and all is fine again.

Last time I chatted to Sentech support (about 2 years ago) and they told me their routers are setup at about 1458 maybe 1460.

Changing the settings did not really make much difference with me either.

Actually I do not understand why their router's MTUs are so low, isnt that going to cause practically ALL packets to be split up, nearly doubling the load on the network? --- What do I know?

 

[bHOLDher]

Ohhh, and I have logged a call about the speed, it took me 3 weeks to convince them that its not because of my address or signal strength or whatever. Meanwhile I am waiting for something to happen.

And I should add that it is better now than on the weekend, I got 88kbps to sentech an hour ago. But thats early in the morning.