Continues Survey to be undertaken Mywireless

[Robone]

I have started keeping a log of speed tests done. 6 in 24 hours. I am on Tower 50 Northcliff and on Broadband128so they say

The intention is that we have one person from each tower and on each service level (128, 256, 512) keeping a log, thus giving us a record to show, both Sentech and the public,as to what the real level of service that we are getting is, and hopefully, if the service improves, we continue monitoring to ensure that it does not start getting bad again. It is the intention that we will post this up on a web site. ( I was thinking of mine run on my server through mywireless and dyndns, but maybe it won't be fast enough, or maybe I will get closed down)

It also gives potential Sentech customers an unbiased view of what they will actually be getting.

To make this statisically correct, we will all have to use one signal testing service, and I have chosen TCP/IQ as it can be left unattended, and every 4 hours it automatically tests the speed. And it is reliable as the cache does not get used.

I am asking for volunteers to undertake this service for all of us and for all new Sentech customers.

Last week, I threatened to go to the small claims court, and if the level of service continues, I still intend to, however, I and we need some ammunition. I would have shot myself in the proverbial foot if I had taken this further without been able to substantiate my claims.

If you are interested I need one volunteer from each tower and each level of service. Contact me at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MywirelessService. I need to know your tower and your package

 

[guest2013-1]

Well, I'm not signing up to that group just to join you, which I am able to do, so sign me up 512k package on tower 82 radiokop, just tell me where to download this thing and where to send the reports

Help save the bandwidth. Decent download speeds for TheRodent! Stop downloading now!!!

 

[TheRoDent]

Rob, I'm going to be making available the software we used on the wardrive shortly. My plan is to exactly do that, gather empirical proof of the actual TCP speed characteristics of the MyWireless network. We went a great distance this weekend by taking TCP dumps, parts of the analysis is available on poopband.co.za

I intend this to become the definitive speed and diagnostics tool in .za

I'm busy sorting out the interface, the mechanisms, and the rest of the analysis tools to go with it. I'm not so sure that automated tests will do the job, since people tend to leave their software running overnight. This will naturally affect the performance of any kind of test.

Regardless, watch this space...

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[Robone]

I look forward to seeing this, however, based on past experience, the speeds vary so much during a day, so that if you only take one speed test, it is not representative of the day, but just a point in time.

My intention is to log these speeds, provide an average and also the high and low. For instance yesterday, ( i am speaking from memory now ) the speeds varied form 38 Kilobits/sec to 111 Kilobits/sec, with and average of about 80. Now the only way that you are going to convince anyone that they have a bum service is if you actually have a detailed record covering the whole day.

I don't know if you are using the same software that you made available for testing speeds, but when I used it, my speeds varied from about 500kilobits/sec to anything. In fact I wanted to run a competition at one stage to see who could get the highest speed. The same problem exists with the Sentech speed tester, and the Telkom one. I am sure you have corrected that problem by now, but it is better when the speeds are run from software located on your own computer

Now I was looking for volunteers. If anyone wants to participate, you are welcome, but if not then, I will continue and keep detailed records of tower 50 Northcliff 128 service, and periodically make this available, but it would be nice to get every tower covered.

 

[passif]

Hi Robone,

I have daily stats from the 18th June (I have a weekly one for the week preceding that) that shows my throughput. Smoothwall actually generates it for one, and it shows for the 24 hour period what the throughput is. I'll continue monitoring my throughput using that (or use whatever you would suggest).

I'm on Mintek, 256k (hah!) package

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Sentech and Telkom: The pupil surpassing the master

 

[Robone]

The results of 1 week survey Tower 50 Node 2 128k package. 6 speed tests done in 24 hours. Low generally happens between 16h00 and 23h00 and high early hours of the morning.

Date, Average,Low,High
18-Jul-04, 43, 31, 63
19-Jul-04, 82, 61, 104
20-Jul-04, 68, 32, 111
21-Jul-04, 90, 55, 109
22-Jul-04, 64, 36, 106
23-Jul-04, 76, 54, 106
24-Jul-04, 88, 72, 106
25-Jul-04, 81, 65, 108

Week Average speed
Average of daily Average = 74
Average of daily Low = 51
Average of daily High = 102

I leave the conclusions to you, but all I know, that is when I need the speed, between 18h00 and 22h00, I am not getting it.

 

[Brolloks]

Passif ... I get my logs from smoothwall as well, but I think it's best if everyone would use the same testing software. It also depends what is running at the time of test. P2P software can make quite a difference to speed testing.

MW128 Tower 12 , but Tower 116 and 82 are actually closer.