Has everyone deserted iBurst?

Interesting.... Still shaped to death for me at home. Load same torrents onto the ADSL line, with same client, router and configuration at the office and they run full line speed.

iBurps = weakest link!
 
I find that hard to believe, quite frankly. And before you lot get on your high horse and tell me I dunno what I am doing, guess what? I hauled my PC to work, including my router and plugged it in here at the office. hallelujah, torrents that are DEAD FOR WEEKS on iBurst SUDDENLY STARTED DOWNLOADING and finished within 30-50 minutes. Therefore I am canning iBurps and getting ADSL. Sick and tired of their **** and their helping themselves to my bank account.

The problem is that these people who claim torrents work on iBurst are either using some sort of VPN or a proxy of some kind. Neither I, or several contacts and customers I once had, could get torrents to run without Clipse's PayVPN. So when he kicked the bucket, so did our torrent downloading abilities.
 
Turiko said:
I find that hard to believe, quite frankly. And before you lot get on your high horse and tell me I dunno what I am doing, guess what? I hauled my PC to work, including my router and plugged it in here at the office. hallelujah, torrents that are DEAD FOR WEEKS on iBurst SUDDENLY STARTED DOWNLOADING and finished within 30-50 minutes. Therefore I am canning iBurps and getting ADSL. Sick and tired of their **** and their helping themselves to my bank account.
Click to expand...

Interesting.

Hope they leave your bank account well alone :)
 
We are waiting for the ADSL to be installed, When it is up and running we will cancel iBurps and the bank account will be closed aswell.. Have got a new one lined up just to make sure iBurps don't try and steal money from me.
 
Turiko said:
We are waiting for the ADSL to be installed, When it is up and running we will cancel iBurps and the bank account will be closed aswell.. Have got a new one lined up just to make sure iBurps don't try and steal money from me.
Click to expand...

:D:D:D

I am sure iburps must employ some method of subliminal messaging as I always get the desire to buy one of their R49 (or R89) specials... :sick:
 
Honestly, the lowest contract which gives you 64k uncapped post-cap
is very economical when compared to ISP cost and Dial-Up, plus
there is that 1GB of 1Mb/sec internet, that ISP+DialUp don't offer.
 
PeterCH said:
Honestly, the lowest contract which gives you 64k uncapped post-cap
is very economical when compared to ISP cost and Dial-Up, plus
there is that 1GB of 1Mb/sec internet, that ISP+DialUp don't offer.
Click to expand...

True - but I don't think it's worth the hassle with their accounts department...
 
Your point exactly PeterCH?

A lot of people don't want anything to do with iBurps for two key reasons:

1) The Accounts Department and billing f-ups and the fact that they INSIST on a
debit order and then can deduct various monies at will
2) The Shaping to death of any protocol outside of plain vanilla HTTP and POP3.

The fact that I was a reseller and that I am now gatvol, what does THAT tell you?
 
I'm sorry to say, I'm ashamed to still be using iburst :(
 
Also when I am not capped, I download active torrents (50+ seeders) At 100KB/s to 111KB/s on Iburst
 
Turiko said:
Your point exactly PeterCH?

The fact that I was a reseller and that I am now gatvol, what does THAT tell you?
Click to expand...

I'm saying that I know of many people on dialup or those who don't even have internet who are not interested in torrents or Limewire and only
want to do web browsing and email. The cheapest iBurst account
which allows the softcap is therefore a decent deal to me, especially
if you don't already have a telkom line or if you do, its a great alternative to
Dialup.

Now I'm not attacking your reasoning but keeping the 24/7 64kbit iBurps
connection open for whatever it is, seems cheaper than dialing in at
56kbit speeds. :)

Going through a reseller means you avoid iBurst accounting department
morons.

Now I don't know if MWEB or Tradepage or Nashua are gatvol of Iburst or
if iburst treats them differently but you have to admit, that it is a cost
effective always on alternative to the old dialup.

From my side, I'm ditching iBurst once something more affordable
comes along, even the Uncapped Neotel Prime thing. I'll take
it EVEN if it works at 1Mb/sec speeds (and not 2.6x iBurps speed).
 
Last edited:
Whoever wants my doorstops can have them... when my ADSL line goes in that is. I might be keeping one to reverse engineer but ja, if you are willing to pay a small amount or donate some computer hardware they're yours. Actually you can already get your paws on my spare modem. All you need to do is donate something (even if it is in your opinion, rubbish you'd throw out) to my research. PM me for details of what I am looking for.
 
How good (or should i say bad) is iburst recently? I am signing up for month-to-month (already got a desktop modem) and am wondering what the service is gonna be like.
 
xp007 said:
How good (or should i say bad) is iburst recently? I am signing up for month-to-month (already got a desktop modem) and am wondering what the service is gonna be like.
Click to expand...

It depends on the tower load in your area, a directional antenna is advised to achieve full download speeds in areas where towers are heavily saturated by user connections.

In general, iBurst has been experiencing more than the usual connectivity issues with DNS and Email server issues, compounded by the lack of stable and ample backhaul bandwidth...

Currently email and other commonly used ports are heavily shaped - browsing seems to be reasonable in the Cape Town area, but judging from the past three years - this can change in an instant without any form of notification.

Regards

Mike
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X