CellC vs iBurst

Hate to say it guys but latency on IBurst is going to be awesome as everyone is going to move to the big C and the network is gonna be pretty much idle except for gamers. Will be a great couple of months till bankruptcy hits.
 
Shayd said:
Hate to say it guys but latency on IBurst is going to be awesome as everyone is going to move to the big C and the network is gonna be pretty much idle except for gamers. Will be a great couple of months till bankruptcy hits.
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I'll catch that moment. :twisted:
 
Ok scrap that Idea Cell C's latency is VERY BAD, Like BEE bad! I checked this one guys ping from JHB to NYC, and it was like 500!!!! I nearly died of heart attack, I mean I ping about 254 and thats in the afternoons!!!!

for a 27MB line its latency is disturbingly lacking performance ... And thats not even on half of the country connected!
 
Wolfy said:
Ok scrap that Idea Cell C's latency is VERY BAD, Like BEE bad! I checked this one guys ping from JHB to NYC, and it was like 500!!!! I nearly died of heart attack, I mean I ping about 254 and thats in the afternoons!!!!

for a 27MB line its latency is disturbingly lacking performance ... And thats not even on half of the country connected!
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Did you manage to see what local latencies look like?
 
Wolfy said:
Ok scrap that Idea Cell C's latency is VERY BAD, Like BEE bad! I checked this one guys ping from JHB to NYC, and it was like 500!!!! I nearly died of heart attack, I mean I ping about 254 and thats in the afternoons!!!!

for a 27MB line its latency is disturbingly lacking performance ... And thats not even on half of the country connected!
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http://www.pingtest.net/result/25649140.png
500ms you say?
 
there is a good chance I'm missing something here, but from what I could see on the CellC website the only offerings are 2GB and 5GB per month.

If you exceed your 5GB per month, as i often do, then i calculated the price of another gig of data to be R326 (out of bundle rate), which would totally blow this solution out of the water for me.
 
Markd said:
there is a good chance I'm missing something here, but from what I could see on the CellC website the only offerings are 2GB and 5GB per month.

If you exceed your 5GB per month, as i often do, then i calculated the price of another gig of data to be R326 (out of bundle rate), which would totally blow this solution out of the water for me.
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Get a 5 and a 2?
 
thusfar i've heard only good things from the "4G" / CellC 21mbit modems. (for the area's with 21mbit / fullspeed capability)


Nice special
 
Man you justed tested it on a bad day. My Iburst is about 80 Ping Local, and about 254 Ping Jhb to London, zero package loss
 
I'm sorry to say to iBurst, but i will be one of the people moving over to Cell-C.

I have a prepaid 2gig connection with them at R200p.m, 4gig counting the after-hours half-price, since i'm due for a work R300p.m data contract upgrade requiring that i have a static IP, iBurst provides this at extra mula, it make sense that i cancel i-Burst and get the Cell-C 5gig solution which my work will pay for, that would mean my personal(4gig) and work connectivity(1gig) is covered and i save myself R200p.m.
 
Wolfy said:
Man you justed tested it on a bad day. My Iburst is about 80 Ping Local, and about 254 Ping Jhb to London, zero package loss
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I tested on a Saturday, lets try this during the day and during the week:

JHB:

London:

It's even worse during the week.

Like I said before, it all depends on location.

If you get good results with iBurst, stick with iBurst.

If Cell C gives you better results at your location, buy a dongle.
 
I dunno man, I never Pinged above 100 local before , was this in the morning, middle of the day, or during the night?
 
I think IBurst themsekves should move over to CellC and dump that old technology of theirs.
1mbps vs 21mbps? They should be embarrassed!!

I've had IBurst...now I've got Cell C
 
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ginggs said:
Are you getting 21Mbps?
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At most up to 10Mbps. 1Mbps vs 10Mbps is still significant difference. Even if it is 4Mbps, that's will be a large difference. Plus, 1Mbps is not actual speed, unlike Cell C.
 
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