Fantastic IS speeds ... again

[Glipsie]

Anyone got any news from IS? I can barely download my mail. Normally local is fast, today I don't even want to attempt international ...

Pinging www.mybroadband.co.za [196.7.147.165] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 196.7.147.165: bytes=32 time=104ms TTL=243
Request timed out.
Reply from 196.7.147.165: bytes=32 time=109ms TTL=243
Reply from 196.7.147.165: bytes=32 time=234ms TTL=243

Ping statistics for 196.7.147.165:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 104ms, Maximum = 234ms, Average = 149ms

When is the pain going to end?

 

[titanium]

Bad weather = packet loss. IS should investigate alternative methods of connectivity to compensate for this situation, even if it means using SAIX!

And on that note, 2 more days till my IS subscription expires, which I won't be renewing.

 

[Glipsie]

Yeah, I could understand if this was international problems ... but this is local! What did the fibre connections get flooded and they're now refracting light at different angles causing packet loss?

 

[ant1b0dy]

Yep, IS local and international are both crawling.... bloody frustrating.

The gamco (http://www4.gam.co.za/connectivity/bandwidth.php) IS based speed test tells me my local speed is 101.4kbps (on a 512kbps line). Bah.

 

[stix]

mmmh hasn't been to bad in Cape Town today

 

[Moederloos]

IS sucks as usual.

The most amazing thing though, is P2P is better than normal, and I am soft-capped. Everything else is a bloody disaster.

 

[stoke]

Wooo hooo ... 581.00kbps on a 1024 line ... LOOOOL.
Such quality !

 

[Highflyer_GP]

yay im sitting at an amazing 42kbps on a 384 connection, which places me between 33.6 & 57.6 dial-up

 

[HaltAndCatchFire]

My is fine today:

Pinging mybroadband.co.za [196.7.147.165] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 196.7.147.165: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=242
Reply from 196.7.147.165: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=242
Reply from 196.7.147.165: bytes=32 time=42ms TTL=242
Reply from 196.7.147.165: bytes=32 time=40ms TTL=242

Ping statistics for 196.7.147.165:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 40ms, Maximum = 42ms, Average = 41ms

Hope it stays this way!

 

[Icaris]

Good Speeds from IS

A couple of days ago I was getting 15kB/s international on a capped (eg only local + very slow international) account. It went on the whole weekend.


I have actually had quite a pleasant experience experience using IS.