Excellent service from iBurst... so far

[andrieso]

I switched to iBurst last week as I was no longer prepared to pay Telkom's huge bills. I must add that the ISDN 64k link I had was excellent. But then even my 56k analogue line was good. I live in an area which is relatively new (Montana Park) and I guess the Telkom infrastructure is probably newer / better in this area. My move to iBurst was made for economical reasons (cheaper than my ISDN costs) and political (sick of Telkom's monopoly). I had even asked Telkom to install ADSL, had an appointment but then cancelled as I decided if I break with Telkom I do so completely. I will keep the Telkom line because I still need to make the odd landline call and send / receive faxes.

I contacted Jaco Greyling at Nanonet and asked for a home demonstration. This was done with no fuss at all and once I saw the connection speed and played for two days (using their equipment) I signed up immediately, bought the modem, paid for the registration fees and that was that. Got my own login details within an hour and got going. My closest tower is Wonderboom, less than 6km from my place.

Since then I have no had a single dropped connection, except when I did so myself by loggin off. Upload and download speeds vary but are mostly way above ISDN 128k (using InternetFrog to test) and both upload and download hover around the 400kbps area.

The only gremlin so far was to get the other PC on the network to sing along. ICS worked great on ISDN but has a few quirks on iBurst. Guess I need to set it up properly, have read all I could on the forum here and will give it a bash this afternoon.

Am I just very lucky or will reality still hit me on the head?

Regards

Andries O

 

[jmn]

Wonderboom is one of the better towers to be on for now, very low load but it will increase. Had a problem of max 6.8 kbps in Pretoria a while back for a couple of users, but that has been resolved. My upload speeds are however about 40 kbps most of the time.

 

[bb_matt]

Ok, how much are they paying you ?

Am I just very lucky or will reality still hit me on the head?

Your very lucky and reality will hit you on the head.

 

[slimothy]

ignore bb_matt he doesnt even have iburst, I say good for you, its not unheard of, they do get it right sometimes and you know what when you get the speed its well worth it, no adsl package can stand near it... but if it does go bad, and it might not but if it does you'll switch pretty fast

interesting thing to note is that in the #myadsl channel so far adsl users ping out more often than we do, they ping out on average 10 times to every 1 iburst user, another thing is adsl reconnects every day, which i think is crap personally, but whatever. and the funny thing is some users were dissing iburst till w1z4rd and I started having a speed contest to see who was fastest and they shut up real quick.

heres a fact for everyone, if you get your speed with iburst NOTHING in this country right now can touch it, if you dont get your speed, its probably up there with sentech for being sh1tty

 

[MrH]

Andries, the moaning and whining you must have read here are not about iBurst itself as it is a good system, the complaints are about WBS who are a totally useless company who offer no real support or help when needed, and on top of that they do not seem to know what they are doing.

It's good to hear that you have a good experience so far, lets just hope it remains that way.

My speeds in general are good and I hit 1mbps most the time, I notice that you are not even getting 1/2 that speed, but then comming from a 64k connection to 400kbps will seem fast, wait till you reach 1mbps then you'll really be impressed.

 

[andrieso]

iBurst service

Nah, these guys don't pay me anything. I just thought I'd comment that there are cases where the service is good. I am a web developer and spend a lot of time online and FTP'ing data. I am not into gaming at all and so the capping problem does not affect me. For me the internet and associated connections are a business tool that I can't do without. And after 16 years in IT, I suffer from brain drain nowadays. I ignore stats and figures and rather focus on the ability of an ISP to allow me to be effecive and financially viable in my business. While Telkom's ISDN line was effective, it was not financially viable. So far iBurst has been both and I look forward to the first month where I don't have to pay about R2000.00+ on a Telkom bill.

Andries

 

[Glipsie]

I've been an IBurst subscriber since December last year. I must say the experience up until about March was fantastic. 1mb full time, anytime. Unfortunately they have since then oversold my tower (Northcliff) by quite some margin. Now, I've been trying to connect to ANY of the speed test sites for about 10 minutes so that I could show you what things might become . I still have my ISDN line which is useful when you need to fix that critical error on someones site/server. If you won't ever come across something like that then I suppose you won't have to worry. If you will, I suggest you get yourself a 56k modem just in case. Until then, good luck and hope you get better service than me. I've been waiting for more than 3 months for them to upgrade this tower! (Actually I've secretly been hoping that everyong else on this tower gets fed up and cancels )

Cheers
Marnitz

[Edit]
Hey, the speed test finally went through!
* Download time: 408.619 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 10 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 1.2 (kiloBytes/second)
[/Edit]

 

[andrieso]

Glipsie, Yep, I will get an el cheapo 56k modem just in case threre's a problem. Luckily with iBurst the possibility of having your PC fried to KFC standards because of lightning is now also reduced!

 

[MrH]

Mine right now as you can see it's pretty fast

* Download time: 3.735 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 1092.4 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 133.9 (kiloBytes/second)

 

[JasonH]

Just wait until you become capped, 64k is not exsistant more like 0.2kb with high 500ms pings to www.iburst.co.za and pages not loading. fsking bulls#1t

 

[MrH]

Yeah JasonH, thats whats worrying me since I still do not get BW email reports, and the webpage BW report is still where it was 5 days ago.

Can't be very far from been capped right now going by what I figured out, so taking it easy with downloading.

 

[GuRu]

Welcome and good luck.

 

[P0tenc]

Andries, the moaning and whining you must have read here are not about iBurst itself as it is a good system, the complaints are about WBS who are a totally useless company who offer no real support or help when needed, and on top of that they do not seem to know what they are doing.

Well said! For some reason my mirc and messanger always use to disconnect when I download once capped. So far capped speed and pings have been good and no mirc or messanger disconnects. Could it be that they actually fixed something by mistake

O yes and I do love that 1mbps when it comes through Which seems to be less often this month.

 

[P0tenc]

I've been an IBurst subscriber since December last year. I must say the experience up until about March was fantastic. 1mb full time, anytime. Unfortunately they have since then oversold my tower (Northcliff) by quite some margin. Now, I've been trying to connect to ANY of the speed test sites for about 10 minutes so that I could show you what things might become . I still have my ISDN line which is useful when you need to fix that critical error on someones site/server. If you won't ever come across something like that then I suppose you won't have to worry. If you will, I suggest you get yourself a 56k modem just in case. Until then, good luck and hope you get better service than me. I've been waiting for more than 3 months for them to upgrade this tower! (Actually I've secretly been hoping that everyong else on this tower gets fed up and cancels )

Cheers
Marnitz

[Edit]
Hey, the speed test finally went through!
* Download time: 408.619 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 10 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 1.2 (kiloBytes/second)
[/Edit]

Just try reconnect a few times testing speed after each reconnect. I still get that problem from the 6th of this month, although some ppl seem to not be getting it any more. Some times I have to reconnect up to 10 times before I get good speeds. So when I do get good speed I don't disconnect

 

[andrieso]

ICS probem solved

I started this thread and reported that the only thing I still had a gremlin with was ICS. However, thanks to the help given elsewhere on the forum (iBurst Technical Help) I was able to sort out the gremlin this afternoon.

Thanks guys! The help is appreciated.

 

[Roman4604]

Yep I gotta concur (come from 64K ISDN & cant get ADSL). I've only had iBurst for almost a month & so far its been great. Thats while un-capped (ave. 100+ KB/Sec) & capped (ave. 6.5 KB/Sec).

Time will tell if my luck/opinion will hold out for the long run?

 

[bb_matt]

ignore bb_matt he doesnt even have iburst, I say good for you, its not unheard of, they do get it right sometimes and you know what when you get the speed its well worth it, no adsl package can stand near it... but if it does go bad, and it might not but if it does you'll switch pretty fast

interesting thing to note is that in the #myadsl channel so far adsl users ping out more often than we do, they ping out on average 10 times to every 1 iburst user, another thing is adsl reconnects every day, which i think is crap personally, but whatever. and the funny thing is some users were dissing iburst till w1z4rd and I started having a speed contest to see who was fastest and they shut up real quick.

heres a fact for everyone, if you get your speed with iburst NOTHING in this country right now can touch it, if you dont get your speed, its probably up there with sentech for being sh1tty

You are such a total d1ckhead, it's laughable.

It boggles my brain. I can only assume that you have a split-personality, a really bad memory or a very selective one - in that it always works in your favour.

Should I dig up some of the posts where you finally diss iBurst into the ground or not ?

Why bother, you really are a waste of space because you change your tune when it suits you, so there's simply no point in bothering with anything you say. That greasemonkey extension is about to come in real handy ...

 

[Glipsie]

Just try reconnect a few times testing speed after each reconnect. I still get that problem from the 6th of this month, although some ppl seem to not be getting it any more. Some times I have to reconnect up to 10 times before I get good speeds. So when I do get good speed I don't disconnect

Nah it's def a contention thing. For instance, I haven't yet disconnected. However, my speeds are now:
* Download time: 21.712 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 187.9 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 23 (kiloBytes/second)

Not quite 100kB but a lot better than during the day

 

[MrH]

Speed is a little faster now than earlier in the day, but can't complain as long as I don't reach my cap...

* Download time: 2.938 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 1388.7 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 170.2 (kiloBytes/second)

Forgot to add the tower went down for about 30min so I guess they were playing around with it, then since it's been back speeds went up.