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Question of the Day: What's the most interesting small town you've visited in South Africa?
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asilva said:
Same here.I thought it was me.
bdt
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Naah, it's y'all - mine's open and accessible, no worries. 
..but more to the point, mine's open in Firefox that's got a performance enhancing extension or few running; what're y'all running?
-bdt
..but more to the point, mine's open in Firefox that's got a performance enhancing extension or few running; what're y'all running?-bdt
of course im running firefox, is there any other browser worth having?
hehehehe
it's taking a long time to open gmail, sometimes can't even do it!
dunno what's wrong, i'll check my settings...
thx for the reply though,
cheers,
AS
hehehehe
it's taking a long time to open gmail, sometimes can't even do it!
dunno what's wrong, i'll check my settings...
thx for the reply though,
cheers,
AS
no wonder there, look at this:
Tracing route to googlemail.l.google.com [64.233.185.19]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 274 ms 319 ms 339 ms 66.18.87.50
2 261 ms 699 ms 295 ms 66.18.65.105
3 350 ms 218 ms 282 ms gige-0-0-102.rtr-core5-stp.infosat.net [66.18.65
.106]
4 373 ms 261 ms 178 ms 66.18.87.253
5 397 ms 421 ms 417 ms 66.18.87.241
6 437 ms 337 ms 443 ms 10.16.6.43
7 239 ms 240 ms 435 ms 66.18.87.233
8 412 ms 261 ms 135 ms 66.18.87.225
9 357 ms 202 ms 315 ms 168.209.18.61
10 1054 ms 299 ms 761 ms core2b-rba-gi8-0-0.rtr.isnet.net [196.26.0.9]
11 646 ms 500 ms 820 ms 168.209.0.94
12 678 ms 519 ms 442 ms 168.209.244.7
13 * 613 ms 538 ms core1-0-2-0.lga.net.google.com [198.32.160.130]
14 692 ms 581 ms 578 ms 216.239.49.34
15 3476 ms 3778 ms 3801 ms 66.249.94.235
16 3041 ms 2982 ms 3336 ms 72.14.238.232
17 * 3155 ms 2898 ms 72.14.238.235
18 3117 ms 3400 ms * 72.14.232.147
19 3115 ms 3355 ms 3256 ms 72.14.238.194
20 3058 ms 3139 ms 2934 ms 64.233.185.19
Trace complete.
so, there is an explanation.
cheers,
AS
Tracing route to googlemail.l.google.com [64.233.185.19]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 274 ms 319 ms 339 ms 66.18.87.50
2 261 ms 699 ms 295 ms 66.18.65.105
3 350 ms 218 ms 282 ms gige-0-0-102.rtr-core5-stp.infosat.net [66.18.65
.106]
4 373 ms 261 ms 178 ms 66.18.87.253
5 397 ms 421 ms 417 ms 66.18.87.241
6 437 ms 337 ms 443 ms 10.16.6.43
7 239 ms 240 ms 435 ms 66.18.87.233
8 412 ms 261 ms 135 ms 66.18.87.225
9 357 ms 202 ms 315 ms 168.209.18.61
10 1054 ms 299 ms 761 ms core2b-rba-gi8-0-0.rtr.isnet.net [196.26.0.9]
11 646 ms 500 ms 820 ms 168.209.0.94
12 678 ms 519 ms 442 ms 168.209.244.7
13 * 613 ms 538 ms core1-0-2-0.lga.net.google.com [198.32.160.130]
14 692 ms 581 ms 578 ms 216.239.49.34
15 3476 ms 3778 ms 3801 ms 66.249.94.235
16 3041 ms 2982 ms 3336 ms 72.14.238.232
17 * 3155 ms 2898 ms 72.14.238.235
18 3117 ms 3400 ms * 72.14.232.147
19 3115 ms 3355 ms 3256 ms 72.14.238.194
20 3058 ms 3139 ms 2934 ms 64.233.185.19
Trace complete.
so, there is an explanation.
cheers,
AS
Noble_Nanobot
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...uhm...I've got the same problem here...not sure what the problem is ...I can howver confirm that I don't have this problem at all on Nokia 7710 ... ...
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ettubrute
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No problem here... 
Reptile2025
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same here, gmail takes ages to load
qdada
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same experience here, i thot the p2p client was doing it, restarted the pc, ran nothing else, still no joy.
128, woodmead
128, woodmead
bandwidth
Well, it all points to the same thing, bandwidth, or, more precisely, the lack of it. Now, i just wonder, how many users does sentech have in the whole of SA? All of them are at least paying 14400 for a 24 month contract, that is, if all of them were using the 128kbit/s package, sorry, my mistake, the 33-40kbit/s package and we know that is not the case. I just thought the amount of money they make would at least cover the part that makes it all possible, bandwidth. Skyvision is actualy selling 2mbit/s sat for about 24000/month, it may seem a lot to us, users, but for a company that makes millions (or should) this is not a bigdeal. Ofcourse, 2mbit/s is not nearly enough for the users sentech has. So i think they have more, although at the moment, their service really looks like a 2mbit/s service, he he he. Now, what is the ratio they use? in terms of downlink/uplink its allways good policy to have a 3:1 ratio, and if ur rich, 2:1. In terms of bandwidth per user ratio, i have no idea, but it looks like 10kbit/s per user at the moment!
Well, it all points to the same thing, bandwidth, or, more precisely, the lack of it. Now, i just wonder, how many users does sentech have in the whole of SA? All of them are at least paying 14400 for a 24 month contract, that is, if all of them were using the 128kbit/s package, sorry, my mistake, the 33-40kbit/s package and we know that is not the case. I just thought the amount of money they make would at least cover the part that makes it all possible, bandwidth. Skyvision is actualy selling 2mbit/s sat for about 24000/month, it may seem a lot to us, users, but for a company that makes millions (or should) this is not a bigdeal. Ofcourse, 2mbit/s is not nearly enough for the users sentech has. So i think they have more, although at the moment, their service really looks like a 2mbit/s service, he he he. Now, what is the ratio they use? in terms of downlink/uplink its allways good policy to have a 3:1 ratio, and if ur rich, 2:1. In terms of bandwidth per user ratio, i have no idea, but it looks like 10kbit/s per user at the moment!
huh oh!
i just decided to go and read a bit of what is on sentech's website, this bit caught my attention:
“The key to BizNet Xpress is in its logical simplicity,” explains Georg Wenhold, product development manager at Sentech. “Working in a manner much like our broadcasting network, a central high-site sitting on the Sentech backbone connects to any number of antennae placed within the business campuses of client companies. Using non-line of site wireless capabilities, the high-site then provides access up to 2Mbps. It can maintain this over physical ranges of up to 20km – more than enough to cover most cities.”
BizNet Xpress operates in the regulated 3.5GHz frequency band, the most commonly licensed band globally, and meets the ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) technical standards that are required by the majority of regulatory bodies that license the 3.5GHz band. It uses techniques like dynamic bandwidth allocation, high-order modulation schemes and error correction to maximise spectral efficiency, thereby ensuring that the real data rate delivered to customers is more than 80% of the ‘over-the-air’ data rate."
now, what do they mean by data rate delivered to customers (of BizNet Xpress, of course) is more than 80% of the over-the-air data rate?
This service was launched in 1 November 2005.
I believe they didnt have many customers at first, maybe...they...got...some...now? DRAIIIIINNNN!
lol
maybe im just beeing paranoid!
cheers,
AS
i just decided to go and read a bit of what is on sentech's website, this bit caught my attention:
“The key to BizNet Xpress is in its logical simplicity,” explains Georg Wenhold, product development manager at Sentech. “Working in a manner much like our broadcasting network, a central high-site sitting on the Sentech backbone connects to any number of antennae placed within the business campuses of client companies. Using non-line of site wireless capabilities, the high-site then provides access up to 2Mbps. It can maintain this over physical ranges of up to 20km – more than enough to cover most cities.”
BizNet Xpress operates in the regulated 3.5GHz frequency band, the most commonly licensed band globally, and meets the ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) technical standards that are required by the majority of regulatory bodies that license the 3.5GHz band. It uses techniques like dynamic bandwidth allocation, high-order modulation schemes and error correction to maximise spectral efficiency, thereby ensuring that the real data rate delivered to customers is more than 80% of the ‘over-the-air’ data rate."
now, what do they mean by data rate delivered to customers (of BizNet Xpress, of course) is more than 80% of the over-the-air data rate?
This service was launched in 1 November 2005.
I believe they didnt have many customers at first, maybe...they...got...some...now? DRAIIIIINNNN!
lol
maybe im just beeing paranoid!
cheers,
AS
Reptile2025
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yes, i see downloads in general are fine but surfing's crappy
bekdik
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I saw a post that google had move to a new server farm and that there were probles with it. Maybe that's the cause?
I find surfing quite normal. I'm a strong believer in actually WAITING for the site to load (a little!! not too much!)...I mean, surfing is only as fast as you can surf! ...Does anyone understand that? So what if my connection can browse through 10000 sites per second if i can read only one every ten seconds? And sites you know well from previous browsing are already in your cache and shouldnt take too long to load...
Darth Garth
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bekdik said:
You are probably referring to their "Big Daddy" cutover recently ... not so much new servers but rather new algorithms to index the web (their new bot for example now understands Javascript and flash files).
The SEO (Search Engine Optimization) folks and link spammers are not too pleased though that they have to learn a new set of tricks.