I think they've started testing the speed cap

[slimothy]

My clients are in europe and north america so on occasion I have to work in thier timezones, which for the last 2 days has meant working nights. So when it came to quitting time on the first night (about 3:15 AM) I noticed something funny happening with the connection, the line speed slowed to isdn speeds and the ping time went up to about 1096ms or there abouts. I figured it was just some iBurst problem untill the same thing happened about an hour ago (3:15 AM), so this time I stayed up to see what was happening, at first the line speed was bouncing and my test download had speeds of 8 - 20KB/s, I went to make some tea and when I came back.. the line speed was stuck fast at 64kbit, it hardly budged at all and the ping time to www.iburst.co.za was around 800 - 900ms. then a coupel minutes ago (4:15 AM) it was back to normal. It seems too much of a coincidence for it to be a normal iBurst problem. So could this be WBS testing the speed cap? anyone else noticed anything?

 

[limnos]

Hey slimothy, since around 4am till now (6am) ive eperienced the EXACT same thing. Any download wouldn't pull thru over 15kb/s. If i were lucky it would go to 20kb/s but for a short time only.

 

[asmith]

Probably someone sending a huge backup file somewhere and hogging all the bandwidth. (Possibly not even on the iBurst side of things, but their upstream ISP)

 

[koffiejunkie]

Hey guys, sorry it was my fault. I had a torrent running at 50kB/s....

 

[martin]

Hey guys, sorry it was my fault. I had a torrent running at 50kB/s....

lol

 

[Gatecrasher]

I was also getting intermittant degradation last night. I still think something is not quite right with Sandton BS since Tuesday, but it did seem to be network related rather than signal related. Maybe some testing in progress.

 

[DFantom]

I was also getting intermittant degradation last night.

I didn't notice anything....but that may have been because I was at the Keg getting degradated

 

[DaveBuchanan1337]

speed cap? why would they want to cap me? I never get more than 2KB/s anyways...

 

[slimothy]

then why do you pay for it. I mean call me crazy but if my download was that bad I would use something else

 

[Shaun Green]

Dial Up Modem Required Cheap

If on Iburst you cannot get more than 2 KB/s speak to someone..

Why suffer for weeks in silence.

This does not make (logical) sense.

Get a dial up connection. Call someone. Buy extra stamps.

dont just sit suffering.

My numbers are available.

Shaun Green