Guys this is it.... :mad:

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This is the trail of my results since my first connection on Thursday(18 August 2005)

Friday 19 August 2005 evening ~19H00
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Your download speed is: 5.44 KBps, or 43.54 Kbps
The test took 98.296 seconds to complete

Sunday 21 August 2005 afternoon 16H40
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Your download speed is: 10.23 KBps, or 81.87 Kbps
The test took 52.281 seconds to complete


Tuesday 23 August 2005 night 22H48
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Your download speed is: 4.17 KBps, or 33.33 Kbps
The test took 128.406 seconds to complete



I'm also located in Cape Town(Claremont to be more specific) and on the 256k package.

Guys , if we dont make serious noise about this , we won't see this problem go away anytime soon.I just spoke to one of the support guys there and he did acknowledge that they're aware of the problem in CT and their technicians are working on it.He did however said he doesn't know anything about the 17th of August or when the problem will be sorted.Anyway I asked him to point me to the right person to vent out my frustration and he gave me the call center manager.His name is Vernon and he's only in during office hours.Lets all call him tomorrow and ask him to give us a commitment on when this problem will be solved..Other than that , we should all , block the contract debit orders until they deliver what they promise on their website. We cannot be treated like Sentech are doing us a favour.We're their clients and they should treat us with a little more respect.If they don't commit to getting this sorted out then , I'm willing to talk to a contact at the Sunday Times and get this out so that people know , before they choose to become Sentech clients.ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!

This is just unnacceptable.Period!

:mad:

jeff
 
I suggest you return your modem, tomorrow being the end of the 7 day cool off period (if it still exists). Or, alternatively, ask Sentech to suspend your account until you're happy that CT has been sorted out. As you can see from the majority of current posts, Dbn,Jhb, Pta "seems" fine (touch wood).

You might do well providing more detail about your connection (signal, snl, have you *ever* seen package related speeds, etc)
 
The sentech 1MB speed test
Your download speed is: 11.38 KBps, or 91.06 Kbps
The test took 89.96 seconds to complete

Using Wget shows a slightly quicker speed. However, there seems to be a few 9's appearing

--23:33:19-- http://www.proasm.com/files/MySignal57.zip
=> `C:/Downloads/MySignal57.zip'
Resolving www.proasm.com... 216.219.94.41
Connecting to www.proasm.com[216.219.94.41]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 951,825 [application/x-zip-compressed]

0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 5% 21.70 KB/s
50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 10% 16.16 KB/s
100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 16% 19.50 KB/s
150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 21% 13.39 KB/s
200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 26% 13.17 KB/s
250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 32% 11.72 KB/s
300K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 37% 16.70 KB/s
350K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 43% 20.13 KB/s
400K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 48% 19.06 KB/s
450K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 53% 9.44 KB/s
500K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 59% 9.33 KB/s
550K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 64% 10.65 KB/s
600K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 69% 14.68 KB/s
650K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 75% 18.63 KB/s
700K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 80% 17.83 KB/s
750K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 86% 13.42 KB/s
800K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 91% 9.15 KB/s
850K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 96% 13.03 KB/s
900K .......... .......... ......... 100% 12.44 KB/s

23:34:28 (13.77 KB/s) - `C:/Downloads/MySignal57.zip' saved [951825/951825]
 
ProASM , I sent you a private message about using MySignal.I'm getting an error message saying "Unable to opn com port(win error code :32 )" when I try to do any measurement.However I can use MySignal to ping the MyWireless site.
 
Most downloads / browsing is of overseas content.

Running a test to SAIX shows that local is worse than international at the moment...
--23:56:00-- http://www.saix.net/accelerator/download/TelkomSAIX_Installer.exe
=> `C:/Downloads/TelkomSAIX_Installer.exe'
Resolving www.saix.net... 196.25.1.200
Connecting to www.saix.net[196.25.1.200]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1,092,239 [application/octet-stream]

0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 4% 13.46 KB/s
50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 9% 8.95 KB/s
100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 14% 7.39 KB/s
150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 18% 7.77 KB/s
200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 23% 13.21 KB/s
250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 28% 8.70 KB/s
300K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 32% 15.32 KB/s
350K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 37% 10.15 KB/s
400K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 42% 15.41 KB/s
450K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 46% 10.56 KB/s
500K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 51% 14.77 KB/s
550K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 56% 13.32 KB/s
600K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 60% 13.31 KB/s
650K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 65% 16.81 KB/s
700K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 70% 9.95 KB/s
750K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 75% 10.74 KB/s
800K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 79% 10.90 KB/s
850K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 84% 13.68 KB/s
900K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 89% 9.83 KB/s
950K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 93% 14.60 KB/s
1000K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 98% 20.13 KB/s
1050K .......... ...... 100% 17.50 KB/s

23:57:32 (11.60 KB/s) - `C:/Downloads/TelkomSAIX_Installer.exe' saved [1092239/1092239]
 
Oops sorry about that, did not see it as this forum does not give any indication if you have a PM.
If its unable to open a Comport with error 32, then you need to manually select the comport.
On the Network Tab there is a Comport Configure button, click it and select the last comport that shows there.
Once done exit MySignal so that it forces it to save the info and restart it.
If you are however using Win98 then you may have other problems and the only way around that one is to set it up manually in the ini file where it says Comport=

If you do not have any joy, download version 5.6 and try that.
Its just the MySignal.exe so backup your current one.

http://www.proasm.com/files/MySignal56.zip

Let me know how it goes as in 5.7 I did quite a big change as far as detecting the comports is concerned as this was necessary when changing modems.
 
Thanx ProAsm...I tried clicking on the "Configure Port" button under the Network tab and nothing happens(i.e no popup or dropdown , or config window appears)

I'm running v5.7 on XP (SP2).
Any ideas?
 
Ok I tried 6 and managed to connect , but couldn't produce any SNL measurements.I got the following output
2408 - 01:55:26 AM - Connecting to Tower - Information not found!
2408 - 01:55:26 AM - Connected to Server from <my_allocated_ip_address>

Clicking on the Signal and Tower button did nothing(no popup , no logs, etc)
I then switched to the "MySignal" tab and clicked on the phone icon and still nothing.No S-N-L values , etc.

Could it be because I have the newer modem(the one without a pointing antenna?)?
 
CT seems to have come alive again, or am i just imagining things?
It's not yet as good as before, but at least it's back up to 50%...
 
So ejb, what signal and SNL you're getting ? BTW, had a lot of disconnections here since yesterday and probs reconnecting. Don't know whether it's my router playing tricks or what. Switching to usb connects first time
 
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I'm on the Woodmead tower in Jhb, and for the last week I've suddenly been having 3 to 4 disconnections per day, with about a 10 minute wait between disconnections.

Uh oh...

However, speed (when connected) is normal.
 
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