Download speeds just shot up!

[MrGray]

Ahh - Rodent is using sentech-mtnns peer - why does it take so many hops for the sentech connection even to reach the peer, though? 9 hops through their network seems like a lot??

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

 

[guest2013-1]

no no, the magic fairies and their flippen dust is causing the bandwidth to be "drowned" out and father x-mas is enjoying the benefit of boosted peering services!

Sentech, 99% downtime guarunteed!

 

[Inevitable]

what is this new peering thing every1 is talking about?

Glory Glory Man United!

 

[guest2013-1]

dunno, but I already shot two birdies with my 9mm, don't trust anyone!

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

 

[arf9999]

Well P2p is back for me...10KB/s on Gnutella....no, hold that thought...dying off to an incredibly fast 7KB/s. Still faster than last week though.

Browsing seems a bit faster, I went out the room and made a cup of coffee and when I returned, the forums page had loaded. So definitely I can say that, using the coffee test, things look better.

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

Edit: I spoke too soon. Speeds are k@k again.

 

[nonroker]

It seems browsing intl sites is about as fun as watching paint dry atm.
Local is FAST.

Sentech, as stupid as they are, were probably routing all traffic via their intl lines.

Peering will increase speed to local sites and take the load off the main bandwidth pipe.

If that's the case, then we should actually blame IS for the screw up and not Sentech. Since IS set up the system in the first place.

Anyways...myadsl is slow cause it sits overseas.

On a side note. Seems like us 256ers are now hardcapped at 128K looking at my SRT graph....

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256k with 64k-hard-cap(tm) technology

 

[mrbob]

See, when I say p2p is going well I seriously mean I'm getting like 3K a sec, I can have 16 downloads running at the moment and I won't cross 1.5K/s , however.. I won't be able to surf the net , talk on MSN/IRC ... it just KILLS everything else. BitTorrent is the same, my bittorrent download speeds max at about 0.8Kb/s , I can download a file with a ****ing zillion seeds , it won't make a difference ... anyways

I've ordered the C4 plastique, getting a good price on it. Like I said, Sentech towers will fall one by one if my speeds aren't fixed

WOO HA HA HA

WOO HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Oh yeah , and has anyone tried gaming over this connection? LOL WHAT A JOKE! I tried playing UT2003 , it takes about 45 seconds after I've picked up a weapon for it to pop into my hand, it's like 3 frames per 15 seconds , on dial-up it is soooooooooooooooo much faster

Peace

 

[bHOLDher]

MrBob, or is it DrEvil?

How many files are you sharing? - I'm wondering if there might be an overload of file requests streaming in killing TCP/IP?

 

[arf9999]

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Local is FAST.


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hmmm...I'm not convinced. still seems slower than dialup to me.

 

[gripen]

why are traceroutes suddenly going through 9 hops where previously it was 2 or 3. This cannot be better..

 

[guest2013-1]

Bwhahaha

This is funny.... I never thought that Sentech would route ALL their bandwidth via their international links, hence why it was as dog slow, still experiencing *** speeds atm on international, and apparently they've upgraded the microwaves to 100 meg (from 49meg) links...

lets see what rabbits they pull out their hat

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

 

[guest2013-1]

Note, this post has trace routes in them, one international and one local, spot the difference

Tracing route to hn-06.cozahost.co.za [64.119.181.5]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 518 ms 117 ms 501 ms 66.18.87.50
2 165 ms 79 ms 239 ms 66.18.67.106
3 143 ms 235 ms 198 ms 66.18.67.105
4 216 ms 342 ms 118 ms 66.18.67.25
5 254 ms 418 ms * 66.18.87.249
6 139 ms 137 ms 161 ms 66.18.87.241
7 160 ms 166 ms 152 ms 66.18.87.233
8 973 ms * * 66.18.87.225
9 206 ms 270 ms 384 ms 168.209.18.61
10 * 464 ms 202 ms 196.26.0.11
11 443 ms 397 ms 637 ms 168.209.0.142
12 855 ms 564 ms 456 ms core1b-ny.nmszone.is.co.za [168.209.244.3]
13 352 ms 480 ms 458 ms POS1-2.IG2.NYC4.ALTER.NET [208.192.177.205]
14 355 ms * 391 ms 589.at-6-0-0.XR3.NYC4.ALTER.NET [152.63.22.2]
15 811 ms 518 ms 378 ms 0.so-2-0-0.XL1.NYC4.ALTER.NET [152.63.17.29]
16 422 ms 359 ms 331 ms 0.so-4-0-0.TL1.NYC9.ALTER.NET [152.63.0.173]
17 416 ms 753 ms 457 ms 0.so-5-0-0.TL1.STL3.ALTER.NET [152.63.1.94]
18 596 ms 479 ms 439 ms 0.so-3-0-0.CL1.DEN4.ALTER.NET [152.63.89.158]
19 500 ms 818 ms 385 ms 177.ATM7-0.GW3.DEN4.ALTER.NET [152.63.72.77]
20 648 ms 453 ms 437 ms internap-gw.customer.ALTER.NET [157.130.162.54]

21 536 ms 382 ms 654 ms border9.ge3-1-bbnet1.den.pnap.net [216.52.40.14]

22 533 ms 478 ms 467 ms data393-2.border9.den.pnap.net [63.251.181.210]

23 451 ms 496 ms 582 ms core-a.v21.ge-2-7.Internap-2.edge2.data393.net [
208.42.224.5]
24 544 ms * 489 ms rtr-dc-dist-b.v14.colo.data393.net [208.42.224.3
5]
25 652 ms 476 ms 740 ms 208-42-239-222.unknown.data393.net [208.42.239.2
22]
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * * * Request timed out.

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\AcidRaZor&gt;tracert www.mweb.co.za

Tracing route to www.mweb.co.za [196.2.63.110]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 75 ms 83 ms 197 ms 66.18.87.50
2 236 ms 79 ms 81 ms 66.18.67.106
3 477 ms 105 ms 238 ms 66.18.67.105
4 114 ms 198 ms * 66.18.67.25
5 143 ms * 243 ms 66.18.87.249
6 160 ms 298 ms 142 ms 66.18.87.241
7 359 ms 437 ms 181 ms 66.18.87.233
8 159 ms 299 ms 137 ms 66.18.87.225
9 198 ms 166 ms * 168.209.18.61
10 * 108 ms 561 ms 196.26.0.253
11 403 ms 87 ms 92 ms fe5-0.br1.jnb7.alter.net [196.30.228.241]
12 110 ms 179 ms * fe3-0.cr1.jnb7.alter.net [196.31.17.161]
13 182 ms 122 ms 174 ms fe0-0.gw2.cpt2.alter.net [196.30.205.4]
14 382 ms 220 ms 169 ms mweb-cpt2-1.cust-gw.cpt2.alter.net [196.31.167.1
10]
15 228 ms 159 ms 199 ms www.mweb.co.za [196.2.63.110]

Trace complete.

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

 

[arf9999]

my gran doesn't need the scooter

 

[guest2013-1]

mine does, JHB traffic sucks


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

 

[nonroker]

Well. One thing's for sure. 256K is now hardcapped at 16KB/s

Check speed on: http://geek.sh/speed.php - This box sits on 100mbit at IS.
I get 16KB/s

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256k with 64k-hard-cap(tm) technology

 

[aborg]

nonroker - what is this SRT you talk about and where can I get it. I would like to report my speeds as well since we are on the same tower. Longing for the days of 25KB/s dl's. []

 

[passif]

Well, just finished downloading the latest NVidia driver and it was flying - haven't seen speeds averaging between 18KBPS and 32KBPS for some time now. This whilst surfing as well. Sigh, guess I jinxed it by talking about it, considering it is Mintek of all towers.

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Sentech and Telkom: The pupil surpassing the master

 

[aborg]

Start Time: 21:08:49
End time: 21:08:03
Download Size: 204800 bytes
Time Delta: 13.776334047318 seconds
Download Speed: 15 KBytes/s
Line Speed: 120 kbits/s

Local looks a bit faster

International still sucks Marcel's balls though - still 1 KB/s.

 

[kickass72za]

My German Shephard is currently in training
Have made a CD case pouch around his neck that holds 4DVD's...... he is fully fit to do 20 km a day everyday (yeh he is a speed merchant)

Just have one problem which i think i will overcome (prior to the SH!TWIRELESS being fixed) and thats to get him to read a ROAD MAP.....

His other bad habit is ..... well being a MALE as we all know..... YIP he gets distracted....

BUT hell i have more confidence in him than SENTECH on getting with the plot and hey he costs R300 rand a month in food and can deliver just under 20 gigs a day......

Gonna get him to chat to his mates on his routes and see if he cant set up the latest and greatest WOOF NETWORK..... the next best thing!!!!!

Oh yeh he does follow standard operating procedure..... he P!SSES only on TELKOM BOXES... just to let their technies know that the COMPETITION is around

YEHAAAAAA

 

[nonroker]

aborg, SRT = Standard Rodent Test
It's basically a download from http://tucows.is.co.za/

I set up a cron job that runs the test every 10 mins to see when speeds are fixed (local atleast)

The download I use is http://tucows.is.co.za/files2/osl2000.zip

It's nice a small so it doesn't take a year to download every run.

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256k with 64k-hard-cap(tm) technology