DigiChilli January Status and feedback

[blaaislaai]

Skype is a NIGHTMARE on DC at the moment!!! Dammit!

Delayed messages? Same here

 

[absk300]

http browsing slow, downloads slow. hope they sort it soon

 

[BlooDBatH]

Delayed messages? Same here

Yes! It's driving me crazy!!! Send a message and wait 10+ min for a reply... AI

 

[Techrat]

That's some quality "Guaranteed" Speeds you got there! SERIOUSLY can anybody tell me what their Guaranteed speeds are?

I'm pretty sure no ISP guarantees any speed.

 

[MonTage]

I'm pretty sure no ISP guarantees any speed.

Really, then why in their FAQ's does it say?

How DigiChilli’s burst speed work?

We're guaranteeing a minimum service but you'll probably get full speed out

What is classified as a minimum service? a connection, and maybe faster than dialup?

Oh and what is "Burst speed"? why would you need a burst speed, if:

1. You are able to get up to 256kbs on a 384kbps line. (128kbs extra is bursting?)

...Up to speed of 256 kbps...

2. Why would you need to even have bursting if you didn't expect people with higher line capacity, ie. 4Mb Lines, to use this service. They would be happy with it not being 256kbps or slower ALL the time!


Sorry, thats my last rant, for the day i think.

 

[amarjits]

gr8 thank god i was out for last two days...

i cannot stand the slow speeds...

 

[Soulsmith]

great, now my international browsing is so slow its pointless, anybody else having the same issue?

 

[Stillie]

i think its time for a February Status and Feedback thread

 

[blaaislaai]

i think its time for a February Status and Feedback thread

Wait till sunday! or Monday

 

[BlooDBatH]

Wait till sunday! or Monday

Yeah!

 

[Stillie]

Wait till sunday! or Monday

LOL it mite take time to upload the thread if he is running DC so start now

 

[Lightscribe]

Delayed messages? Same here

Yes! It's driving me crazy!!! Send a message and wait 10+ min for a reply... AI

Same in Secondlife. The IMs are often "lost in the void of cyberspace" or are up to a few minutes late, which creates weird and irritating conversation interruptions or misunderstandings, when the text suddenly finally appears and is completely out of context, with the present group conversation.

I'm pretty sure no ISP guarantees any speed.

They don't. The words "best effort service" is standard. DC merely made a mistake to mention "guaranteed". I'm sure they will proof read their site and fix the last wording now.

 

[bullfrog]

Keep at it guys. If you keep supporting them, they won't die an instant death that their network deserves. Later on the rest of us sane people can enjoy the fruits of your suffering...if they ever sort out their network

 

[Lightscribe]

Sessions//Online Time (Seconds)//Upload (Bytes)//Download (Bytes)//Combined (Bytes)

139//1208683//1 567 209 791//19 852 733 506//21 419 943 297
http://userstats.adsl.saix.net/

21 gigs for Jan. 6 gigs more than I ever did in a month, with capped, at R50-R70/GB


My PC is busy updating windoze at the same time.

198 kbps down (~0.2 Mbps, 24 KB/s) ↓
82 kbps up (~0.08 Mbps, 10 KB/s) ↑

Details:
250 KB downloaded in 10.328 seconds
100 KB uploaded in 10.046 seconds
Speed @ 268% of the average for digichilli.co.za
4 times faster than 56k dialup
Tested on: 2010.01.29 08:48 EST
Tested from: clowder.ca

184 kbps down (~0.18 Mbps, 22 KB/s) ↓
86 kbps up (~0.09 Mbps, 10 KB/s) ↑

Details:
500 KB downloaded in 22.281 seconds
100 KB uploaded in 9.546 seconds
Speed @ 249% of the average for digichilli.co.za
3 times faster than 56k dialup
Tested on: 2010.01.29 08:50 EST
Tested from: clowder.ca

227 kbps down (~0.23 Mbps, 28 KB/s) ↓
86 kbps up (~0.09 Mbps, 10 KB/s) ↑

Details:
500 KB downloaded in 18.032 seconds
100 KB uploaded in 9.578 seconds
4 times faster than 56k dialup
Tested on: 2010.01.29 08:52 EST
Tested from: clowder.ca
www.speedguide.net/speedtest/

 

[Lightscribe]

Windoze updates are done, so the tests show a slight improvement.

241 kbps down (~0.24 Mbps, 29 KB/s) ↓
88 kbps up (~0.09 Mbps, 11 KB/s) ↑

Details:
500 KB downloaded in 17.031 seconds
100 KB uploaded in 9.328 seconds
Speed @ 326% of the average for digichilli.co.za
5 times faster than 56k dialup
Tested on: 2010.01.29 09:00 EST
Tested from: clowder.ca

233 kbps down (~0.23 Mbps, 28 KB/s) ↓
88 kbps up (~0.09 Mbps, 11 KB/s) ↑

Details:
500 KB downloaded in 17.609 seconds
100 KB uploaded in 9.312 seconds
Speed @ 315% of the average for digichilli.co.za
4 times faster than 56k dialup
Tested on: 2010.01.29 09:01 EST
Tested from: clowder.ca

239 kbps down (~0.24 Mbps, 29 KB/s) ↓
88 kbps up (~0.09 Mbps, 11 KB/s) ↑

Details:
500 KB downloaded in 17.141 seconds
100 KB uploaded in 9.344 seconds
Speed @ 323% of the average for digichilli.co.za
5 times faster than 56k dialup
Tested on: 2010.01.29 09:02 EST
Tested from: clowder.ca

 

[s0lar]

Windoze updates are done, so the tests show a slight improvement.

Surely DC have a WSUS server on their local network? If not, ouch!

 

[ToxicBunny]

Nope they don't..... no ISPs in SA do that I know of... it would be too much of a ballache.
BUT Windows updates to some degree are distributed via Akamai, which is hosted locally by Telscum.

 

[kimbo]

110 kbps down (~0.11 Mbps, 13 KB/s) ↓
32 kbps up (~0.03 Mbps, 4 KB/s) ↑

Details:
250 KB downloaded in 18.585 seconds
100 KB uploaded in 25.817 seconds
Speed @ 149% of the average for digichilli.co.za
2 times faster than 56k dialup
Tested on: 2010.01.29 10:14 EST
Tested from: layeredtech.com
Test ID: 2769694
Browser/OS: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
IP Address: 41.66.72.13
Provider: digichilli.co.za
Location: ZA

 

[Natedogg]

So what is the story with bursting? Is it still being implemented? Could Andre please comment on this, as I have not seen bursting for the past 1 and a half weeks.

 

[Prophet112]

My connection just died, Anybody else?

Edit: finally connected again. What's with these interruptions, my connection just dies and then 4-5minutes later it's working again. This about the 5th time in 2 days it's happened.