Browsing becoming slower...

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Comrade Borris

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Has anyone noticed how much slower browsing has become over the last 2 weeks?

It's beginning to approach dial-up speeds (even thou i get bandwidth for downloads between 10-20KB)

V@rk these bastards!

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regardtv

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Not only that but as of 09:00 on 17/08/2004 on the Mintek tower ping times and packet loss has gone for a ball of s*ite ... don't know if other towers are the same ... at the moment I truly hope it is a case of getting worse before it gets better ... not that it could get much worse.
 
TheRoDent

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Yep, an SRT shows that has indeed gotten even worse.

--23:39:09-- http://tucows.is.co.za/files4/DCPlusPlus-0.241.exe
=&gt; `DCPlusPlus-0.241.exe.32'
Resolving tucows.is.co.za... done.
Connecting to tucows.is.co.za[196.4.160.77]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2,044,011 [application/octet-stream]

0% [ ] 15,147 1.10K/s ETA 29:59

Tomorrow, I'm finally cancelling this ****. WBS has offered me a test UT.


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regardtv

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Join the club Rodent ;-) .. at least WBS's gear works ...

I just hope that this time round we don't get burnt ... though I must say I really am impressed with iBurst so far ;-) ...
 
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MrGray

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It is a ridiculous situation when you can download stuff at 200kbps using a download manager but browsing webpages is at the same speed it was ten years ago on a 14.4 modem. Browsing is definitely slow - especially the delay time before a web page starts loading.

How does one become an iburst tester, btw??

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anakin

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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by TheRoDent</i><br />
... Tomorrow, I'm finally cancelling this ****. ...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">I sincerely hope you won't. MyAdsl/MyWireless would have lost a valuable asset. Also, I would look forward to your comparisons.

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Dean_Henstock

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Yup its got worse !,

Rodent, It will be sad to lose you, may Iburst be what your looking for !

Keep Surfing
 
TheRoDent

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Kai

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yep... i'm out too Rodent. I'm getting ADSL... better the devil you know and all that cr@p...

<hr noshade size="1"><font size="1"><i><div align="right"><font color="red">one day we will all look back at this... laugh nervously... and change the subject...</font id="red">
tower82.randparkridge.jhb|13-21% signal|256k package, running at 0.3 - 3k/s :(</div id="right"></i></font id="size1">
 
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GougedEye

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Bah, my problem with ADSL is the port shaping which really screws up MMORPGs for me.

Guess I am going to have to stick with ISDN from now on.

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regardtv

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Just hope we get to keeping testing the iBurst units till just before launch ... otherwise I'll be getting ADSL next month as well.
 
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Kai

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GougedEye - is ADSL not suitable for MMORPGs? People said the same about MyWireless, and I was playing without a problem 'till about two weeks ago... what kind of pings do you get on ADSL?

I was thinking of popping over to a friend of mine's and checking it there, he has ADSL...

<hr noshade size="1"><font size="1"><i><div align="right"><font color="red">one day we will all look back at this... laugh nervously... and change the subject...</font id="red">
tower82.randparkridge.jhb|13-21% signal|256k package, running at 0.3 - 3k/s :(</div id="right"></i></font id="size1">
 
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bHOLDher

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DOH, I think its my fault, yesterday i claimed that the speed was better. Now its slo again. (But i did wait a week to say it.)
 
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Donovan

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Speed is so slow that it takes 12 minutes to open internet banking, and 15 minutes to open a page on WebCT (RAU's edulink thing on the net). I want to ****ing kill someone at sentech.
 
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Torlin

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Just hope and pray that iBurst learns from this Senf*** fiasco. I never want to work on a 56k modem again. But this is worse it's fu***ing Ridiculous. Do you think that they are actually prioritizing this problem, or have they given up. Go to work at 9 and leave at 4 and if they achieved something it's a bonus? Because I don't see anything, only read a lot of promises.

Sentech a perfect example of: “When great ideas go terrible wrong!”
 
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Some more promises on the ST bulletin board for you 256K (the package, not the B/W) ppl.

128K|21%|13SNL|36 Menlopark 2530
 
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Headend

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Yippppeee, I'm waiting in antici-----pation. I just hope I am not one of the users that is receiving unfair/extra bandwidth at the moment...

Headend
Tower: Mintek (82 was 12) - Signal: 19% - Firmware: 4.2.1.8 - 256k - Smoothwall and PPPoE
 
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