Gardens Centre Tower Degraded?

[who.is.michael]

Hi there

Is anyone else that is currently connecting to the Gardens Centre Tower experiencing a degradation of access speeds and a loss of signal strength?

Please advise.

 

[Tjorriemorrie]

nope. but post the tower number. thanks.

 

[who.is.michael]

Gardens Tower Speed Fluctuating

Surely there must be someone on the forum that is connecting to the Gardens tower? Please let me know if you are experiencing a fluctuation of speed / access.

Thanks

 

[Bishop_01]

I am connected to that tower , all seems well. did 3 speeds test and the avg is about 780kbps

 

[who.is.michael]

Thanks

Mine fluctuates one moment good the next down in the dumps?

 

[seburn]

Michael try upgrading your firmware if you haven't already regardless of when you bought the modem. Firmware upgrade fixed all the problems you mentioned for me.

 

[who.is.michael]

Thanks for the assistance...

Thanks for the assistance, but I have tried just about everything. Firmware is updated, 18db flat panel antenna, optimised NIC's for the iBurst service. Signal -72, less than 1.5 km away from the tower, LOS, etc.

Have changed my UTD, moved my antenna, used a different PC, however the moment the tower is starting to experience the slightest degradation in service I get affected severely, my access speeds plummet.

It takes iBurst at best two to three days to pay attention to the fault and it’s been happening for the last 5 weeks!

I'm fed-up with them.

 

[seburn]

Try running a continual ping on www.iburst.co.za
ping www.iburst.co.za -t -l 1

Or open your iburst connection click status and get the server ip and replace www.iburst.co.za with this

-t for continual pings
-l 1 so set the size of the ping as small as possible to save bw (even though the normal 32bytes will only take about 10mb a month)

 

[who.is.michael]

Never thought of that...

Thanks have started ping, will let you know of the outcome.

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Well there wont be an outcome so to speak if its continual. You can also run it using the "-n" command.

You write -n followed by how many pings you want. You could just make it -n 400 and then you will be able to copy the results here and see if there are any lost packets without watching it all the time.

BTW, www.myadsl.co.za is a much better ping for cape town based iBursters. I just mean better in thats its lower and usually more stable, doesnt actually matter what you ping really.

 

[seburn]

The idea is not for an outcome (which btw can be acheived by running in a cmd window and hiting ctrl c)

The idea is to increase the modem's presence to the tower by continually sending and receiving information.

 

[GreatBigMouth]

The network status on the Iburst website reports no issues. This is probably a problem on your side. Is your MTU set to 1352?

 

[seburn]

Your name is appropriate to say the least

 

[who.is.michael]

...and the outcome is positive.

Hi seburn

Thanks, it seems to do the trick, haven’t lost connectivity at all. My signal reports -58 to -64 via EyeBurst and when there is no congestion on the tower, I receive speeds as reflected below via the Telkom site. (Doubt its accuracy) However, between the weekday hours of 10 am to 4:30 pm my internet connectivity grinds to a complete halt.

Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:
• Download time: 2.724 seconds
• Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
• Estimated line speed: 1497.8 (kilobits/second)
• Estimated line speed: 183.6 (kiloBytes/second)