Connection speed perfect - how long will it last?

Inevitable · Aug 28, 2004

Decent speeds.....what is this topic going on about...Intl speed sucks BIG time

Glory Glory Man United!

noswal · Aug 28, 2004

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by freeek
 lol sorry for saying anything on this post. I just meant give them a break they fixed somethings and they are busy fixing international. sorry for saying anything, I don't have MyWireless so I should say anything. bitch all you want

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You just create a "contention ratio" on this forum [V]
Contention - strife, dispute, etc.

Anyhow, I would say my speed is back to where it was when I got mywireloss at the begining of June (not that it is what I expect it to be), so are they fixing (what was then working) or undoing what was messed up.

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Inevitable · Aug 28, 2004

Noswal:R u saying that intl for you is higher than 10Kb/s?

Glory Glory Man United!

noswal · Aug 28, 2004

No, but consistancy of streaming audio is as it was (for me).

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Kai · Aug 28, 2004

the problem is that as SOON as you do anything, like downloading/streaming audio/breathing to loud - browsing dies.

It's getter there, but it's a far shot from fixed...

So - well done Sentech, you're on the way to fixing your enormous cock-up... now... get there faster!

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Turtle · Aug 28, 2004

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by freeek
 You currently getting decent speeds and latency, don't be greedy and moan for more straight away, don't 4get we love in South Africa
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WTF!? Explain to me why we should accept cr*p just because we live in South Africa? That's just the stupidest thing I've read on the forum so far. SA telcos have been pushing this "hey this is Africa" BS excuse for some time now and it looks like some people are actually buying into it.

The first-world portion of SA's economy is MORE than strong (and large) enough to support a world-class bandwidth infrastructure (*) as good as any first-world country - only people like YOU prevent it from happening by continually pushing the viewpoint that we *should* aim to have really low standards.

(*) If you need proof of this, look at Telkom's profits. Then pretend that money was being used to create and expand infrastructure. Heck, the profits from last year alone are almost enough to install ANOTHER SAT-3.

Turtle · Aug 28, 2004

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by mrbob
 things are definately better than they've ever been, but still got a bti of a way to go to get them to where they should be.
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I disagree, things were MUCH better back in March.

gripen · Aug 28, 2004

Definitely. I would say its nowhere near good at all. Im still capped to around 56kbps over the WEEKEND.

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gripen · Aug 28, 2004

At the Pretoria show today there was a Sentech reseller. Ok to be fair he wasnt pushing the 'product' to bad. I say "so what package are you using?" he says "we have R499 and .." Stupid fool. I wanted to check if he was also capped. I said "so what about this cap?" he says "no there is no cap on this system". I walked away. Was hoping for some Sentech official to beat up.. oh well.

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guest2013-1 · Aug 28, 2004

This morning when I woke up international browsing was flying, however, I woke up to find the PPP link protocol error (see other thread)

P2P and downloading (single thread and multithread) was still hell slow, but browsing... haven't seen browsing like that since before these speed problems started... short lived though, got hit by another PPP link protocol error and decided not to reconnect, now browsing is slow again.

Apparently the deadline is the 31st, not the 30th...

Hell, my gran on a scooter with a memory stick is faster than Sentech's MyWireless!

noswal · Aug 29, 2004

Having been "happier" with speed of last few days, this morning it is back to SOS

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zerofive · Aug 29, 2004

Speeds this morning are terrible. I have been connected 6 days 20 hrs 28 mins and counting. Connection is stable, but the speed is terrible. Getting speeds of less than 1KB per second on downloads, where I was in the past getting up to 10KB plus on my 128kb connection.

Goodwood Tower (90)
Signal Strength: 22%

Luke7777 · Aug 29, 2004

Yip, even the (cached) SRT to IS sucks

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

noswal · Aug 29, 2004

SO, if several of us are now experiencing slow speed then there was something undone by seniletech in the last 10 hours.

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dorris · Aug 29, 2004

I'm starting to notice a pattern, sundays, which should be our best days (NO CORPORATES Hogging the presciousssssssssss band), are in fact our worst, this is probably due to the fact that they reserve sundays to do major work/test their silly theories on how to "FIX" the problem.

I wouldn't mind this, if sentech were to post/mail a scheduled maintenance, or even call it a "test run".

If anyones got the logs, take a look, Sunday things have gone down for the last 3 weeks.

arf9999 · Aug 29, 2004

Something has happened once again. What was fixed is now fscked, what wasn't fixed is still fscked.

MW128, Tower 60(Northpark Plaza), Signal:16%,S-N-L: 7, BER: 45%

Wireless2 · Aug 29, 2004

Yup yesterday was better
Today its screwed

loosecannon · Aug 29, 2004

time is running out ... can we assume its not going to be sorted out .... i dont have faith in them wish they will prove me wrong ...

Zefrem23 · Aug 29, 2004

Today (Sunday) I have had a baseline standard speed to local destinations of less than 1 k per second. Yesterday it seemed things were improving, I was at one point getting 10K to international destinations, and an average torrent speed of 5-8K. Local DC++ was cruising at my maximum possible of around 26-28K on the 256 package. So something has either been changed, or whatever they were trying to do has failed.

Once again we cannot help but feel that, if they would only communicate what was happening in more detail, we might even be able to help.

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embittered · Aug 29, 2004

My geekspeed tests for today:

Download Size: 204800 bytes
Time Delta: 141.21693396568 seconds
Download Speed: 1 KBytes/s
Line Speed: 8 kbits/s

Grrrrrrrrrrrr

Two more days then its all over - at least between me and Sucktech

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