Free iBurst bandwidth after midnight

Vis1/0N said:
My connection gets broken every morning between 6 & 8pm. Since I don't have scheduled downloads for RS I can't say what happens at 2am to 6am. My torrents and RS from 12-2 are about 500Kbs ( no more 1016Kbs sob) but lift a bit to about 700Kbs till 6am. Which is when I am awake to try RS, and get all broken downloads. Sadly even the 200MB file from this morning - it went to 134Mb and then broke my spirit.
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Too add to all of the other users notes on this : Definite pattern, I mangaged a 200Mb file in the midnight period, and got broken downloads between 6.30 and 8am and managed a smooth 200Mb again at lunch time. So for many mornings RS is a no go for anything larger than moderate.
 
BacchusZA said:
I also experience frequent disconnects during the 0000 - 0800 period, starting from around 0020 or so. The modem reconnects, & my torrent downloads resume just fine, but http? I've given up on those, as I have on trying to update my BFBC2. As has been said, it's a trial, and you can expect some teething problems while they test the service, but the disconnect issue is not a new one, it's been going on since the very start of the service. And it only happens during the free period. I have more DC's between midnight and eight in one night than I do during the rest of the day for anything up to two weeks.
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Please remember that there is a change window on Thursday mornings.
 
RS links not working is definitely Iburst doing something, me thinks. My download stopped at 4am so I decided to switch over to my 3G and the same file I was trying to dl with Iburst started immediately. So I then switched back to my Iburst connection and the file didn't want to download. Since 4am I was not able to download anything from RS. And this has been going on now for about a week.

I though Iburst was doing the trail to see if the network can handle the high traffic load.. But if they are blocking rs now then how will they know they can handle uncapped when this becomes a paid service? Then again if they are blocking rs at certain times they probably can't give uncapped just yet. It's probably already taking a strain on the network.

Can't really complain too much as this is a still free service :)

Can anyone from Iburst comment on this pls and shed some light as to why we can't dl from rs anymore? Thx!
 
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MvanHeerden said:
I never had any trouble downloading from RS but for the last week or so my RS links stops downloading every morning at about 2am or so. I have a premium account. During the day it's working fine again.
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I've noticed dips in the transfer rate on my router graphs every night this week around 01:30-02:00, except for last night.

I don't use RapidShare.
 
Well, last night (on a USB laptop modem) 130MB RS downloaded at 11KB/s. uTorrent scheduled to start after that completed went at 50KB/s.

Om my Desktop modem i was getting 16KB/s from another share site. Previously i could get 40-50KB/s from this share service (Megashares).

I am using a portable USB and a Desktop modem on the same account (attached to different PC's). Would the two Modems be sharing the 1Mbps link, they are practically in the same area, hence connecting to the same tower?
 
X-Gamer said:
Well, last night (on a USB laptop modem) 130MB RS downloaded at 11KB/s. uTorrent scheduled to start after that completed went at 50KB/s.

Om my Desktop modem i was getting 16KB/s from another share site. Previously i could get 40-50KB/s from this share service (Megashares).

I am using a portable USB and a Desktop modem on the same account (attached to different PC's). Would the two Modems be sharing the 1Mbps link, they are practically in the same area, hence connecting to the same tower?
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Nope, they have separate provisioning. Desktop will perform better than USB the further you go away from the tower.
 
Rooigevaar, any word on what the pricing for this service will be after the provisional trial period? Would be cool if it stayed as is. :whistle: :p
 
I'm also interested in what the pricing will be

+1 for it to stay as it is. Maybe more votes will get iBurst to keep it the same
 
When the bandwidth is NOT free, I get no timeouts but when its "free", I get timeouts all the time. I need to log into my router, go to status, select disconnect & the connect again. Only then will it continue to download.

Does iBurst do this to stop people from downloading a lot of free bandwidth?
 
D3x said:
When the bandwidth is NOT free, I get no timeouts but when its "free", I get timeouts all the time. I need to log into my router, go to status, select disconnect & the connect again. Only then will it continue to download.

Does iBurst do this to stop people from downloading a lot of free bandwidth?
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I get timeouts in both sections... :-(
 
divv said:
I get timeouts in both sections... :-(
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Thats farking ZEF if you ask me.

The complex I live in is under survey at the moment. Telkom are asking everyone who wants lines & data access. I cannot wait, I really cannot. I am so sick of inconsistent (between sh|t & terrible) internet that its just not funny anymore.
 
D3x said:
When the bandwidth is NOT free, I get no timeouts but when its "free", I get timeouts all the time. I need to log into my router, go to status, select disconnect & the connect again. Only then will it continue to download.

Does iBurst do this to stop people from downloading a lot of free bandwidth?
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I also noticed that.



Well, back to crap downloads on Rapidshare. Keeps showing "lost connection" or timeouts . Did about 400MB last night and the night before.

PS. I use two different programs to download and both are not working.
 
D3x said:
When the bandwidth is NOT free, I get no timeouts but when its "free", I get timeouts all the time. I need to log into my router, go to status, select disconnect & the connect again. Only then will it continue to download.

Does iBurst do this to stop people from downloading a lot of free bandwidth?
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I don't have this problem. Could it just be that your tower is highly congested during this period?
 
I downloaded about 2GB this morning using Orbit.

Didn't get disconnects. I am sure it's congestion on the towers that causes disconnects.
 
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