Browsing becoming slower...

[Comrade Borris]

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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[malec]

You get dail-up speeds???
Lucky ass ...

 

[regardtv]

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]

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]

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 ;-) ...

 

[MrGray]

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??

There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of by mere mortal men - Shakespeare

 

[anakin]

<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]

Yup its got worse !,

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

Keep Surfing

 

[TheRoDent]

anakin, I just can't stomach paying R650 a month for a service that I use to test Sentech ****ty speeds with twice a day. For the rest of the time, my modem is OFF, doing nothing but blinkenlichten in the windowsill.


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[Kai]

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

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[TheRoDent]

Kai, you will be very happy with DSL. If I hadn't kept my DSL since signing up for MyWireless I wouldn't have had usable internet at all, over these last <b>107</b> days


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[GougedEye]

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.

Welcome to the 21st centuary, Africa Style.

 

[regardtv]

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

 

[Kai]

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...

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[TheRoDent]

Errr. I play FPS's on my DSL connection to servers in the UK, with relatively good results.


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[bHOLDher]

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.)

 

[Donovan]

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.

 

[Torlin]

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!”

 

[Luke7777]

Some more promises on the ST bulletin board for you 256K (the package, not the B/W) ppl.

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

 

[Headend]

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