iBurst 1Mb Wireless crap speeds... [SOLVED - MTU]

|3ash3r said:
That's crazy speed at 4 to 5 times faster than mine! Do you also have the USB Only modem? If so, then that is unacceptable from iBurst to have such a vast difference in speeds on the same connection and the same modem!
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yes i just have the usb modem that has the small little ruler size antenna that plugs into it with like a half metre cable and thats the speeds i get. another word of advice, if u download torrents, stay far away from afrihost, i use the iburst connection at my business, i have the afrihost R297 bundle at home, torrents are terrible. for the last week it hasnt gone over 5kbps download speed. rather go with openweb. slightly more but much better connection. i actually get much better download speeds with my iburst connection than with afrihost
 
Over-Dose said:
I would also be part of the group that has no confidence in iBurst. Have been in an area that has had "Fair" signal, but was kept hoping that one day things will become better, due to iBurst explaining that they are always putting up new towers for signal. So signal should get better over time. The connection (without any external hardware) was fine up until 2 to 3 years down the line, out of the blue it started degrading in signal quality. I had to add a panel outside, which improved things for a few months, but then things went back to "worse". I then went and sourced an omni antennae, which improved performance slightly, but not that much.

Ended up deciding to stop with the irate phone calls to people at technical support, and just quit the service. Have been on ADSL for over a year now, and have not regretted a single day with fixed line.

iBurst have great data pricing, but their wireless service in some areas, is not worth the effort it would take to get any assistance.

I say leave them. Your money is better off elsewhere.
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Yeah, that's the thing, they had a decent price for when I was in varsity and it was great since I would mostly use the varsity's network, then come home and use the iBurst network to do email stuff, check for references (*cough* wikipedia *cough*) and play a few games online at decent pings (maybe around 200ms to 300ms on CoD MW2 on UK/US servers). I've recently renewed my contract with iBurst and I've heard they have ridiculous cancellation fees, so will most likely have to stick it out a while.
 
Fiza said:
yes i just have the usb modem that has the small little ruler size antenna that plugs into it with like a half metre cable and thats the speeds i get. another word of advice, if u download torrents, stay far away from afrihost, i use the iburst connection at my business, i have the afrihost R297 bundle at home, torrents are terrible. for the last week it hasnt gone over 5kbps download speed. rather go with openweb. slightly more but much better connection. i actually get much better download speeds with my iburst connection than with afrihost
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Yeah, that's what frightens me. You pay for a service, they want you to use the service to do what you want with it but then they say, "Hey, you can't download that, so we're throttling you. Oh you're downloading illegally, we're throttling you... blah, blah blah." A mate of mine got a warning email from MWeb about a download he did of a particular series. I don't want to go too much into that but essentially he's moved to another ISP to get away from that type of crap.

All I want is to be able to download whatever crap I want since I am paying for a service, not a mother! :p
 
Fiza said:
yes i just have the usb modem that has the small little ruler size antenna that plugs into it with like a half metre cable and thats the speeds i get. another word of advice, if u download torrents, stay far away from afrihost, i use the iburst connection at my business, i have the afrihost R297 bundle at home, torrents are terrible. for the last week it hasnt gone over 5kbps download speed. rather go with openweb. slightly more but much better connection. i actually get much better download speeds with my iburst connection than with afrihost
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@ Fiza - then you're doing something wrong mate. I'm on a 2MB line (line rental with Telkom & the same Data Uncapped package you're on with Afrihost) and have only noticed dips in speeds during the day. Now there are many reasons why there are dips in speeds where torrents are concerned. Could be your peers and their upload settings. Could be your ISP throttling you to kingdom come during peak hours. However with me, I get up to and over 200kbps in the evenings, from torrents that have a decent amount of peers.

And I just switched to Afrihost last month after the 20th, and I used over 60GB last month. And this month I'm already nearing 50GB already. And it's a variety of sources where I download. Not just torrents. So consider that when using torrents.

|3ash3r said:
Yeah, that's what frightens me. You pay for a service, they want you to use the service to do what you want with it but then they say, "Hey, you can't download that, so we're throttling you. Oh you're downloading illegally, we're throttling you... blah, blah blah." A mate of mine got a warning email from MWeb about a download he did of a particular series. I don't want to go too much into that but essentially he's moved to another ISP to get away from that type of crap.

All I want is to be able to download whatever crap I want since I am paying for a service, not a mother! :p
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@ |3ash3r - hope that sheds some light on a different perspective with Afrihost. Can't comment on MWEB, but I have a mate who was with them, using a 4MB line, and he was download chunks of files, and never received a single e-mail from MWEB. Go figure.
 
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Over-Dose said:
@ Fiza - then you're doing something wrong mate. I'm on a 2MB line (line rental with Telkom & the same Data Uncapped package you're on with Afrihost) and have only noticed dips in speeds during the day. Now there are many reasons why there are dips in speeds where torrents are concerned. Could be your peers and their upload settings. Could be your ISP throttling you to kingdom come during peak hours. However with me, I get up to and over 200kbps in the evenings, from torrents that have a decent amount of peers.

And I just switched to Afrihost last month after the 20th, and I used over 60GB last month. And this month I'm already nearing 50GB already. And it's a variety of sources where I download. Not just torrents. So consider that when using torrents.



@ |3ash3r - hope that sheds some light on a different perspective with Afrihost. Can't comment on MWEB, but I have a mate who was with them, using a 4MB line, and he was download chunks of files, and never received a single e-mail from MWEB. Go figure.
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I was getting decent speeds with afrihost. 70-80kb with slower speeds during peak times. but recently its been terrible. getting 5kb download speed on a torrent with 12500 seeders is terrible. i downloaded that same torrent with my iburst connection on the same pc and i got 90kb download speed. so far from what i've heard, openweb is the best option out there. and another thing i have noticed reading through the afrihost forum, it's not everyone that has the bad download speeds from afrihost but many of their users are getting bad speeds. I guess it's just the lucky guys that aren't having problems. afrihost have lost a huge amount of customers due to bad download speeds and very high pings since the move to mtn
 
|3ash3r said:
Quick update to this, I fiddled around with MTU settings and found a good number that was giving me 0.5Mbps down, 0.2Mbps up and 86ms ping. I'm at work atm, so I will test it again tonight to see what happens.
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What's your MTU now?
 
Fiza said:
I was getting decent speeds with afrihost. 70-80kb with slower speeds during peak times. but recently its been terrible. getting 5kb download speed on a torrent with 12500 seeders is terrible. i downloaded that same torrent with my iburst connection on the same pc and i got 90kb download speed. so far from what i've heard, openweb is the best option out there. and another thing i have noticed reading through the afrihost forum, it's not everyone that has the bad download speeds from afrihost but many of their users are getting bad speeds. I guess it's just the lucky guys that aren't having problems. afrihost have lost a huge amount of customers due to bad download speeds and very high pings since the move to mtn
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Well, let me just hope that they stay this way, cos what I noticed is that whenever torrents are at a snails pace, and I do a speedtest on speedtest.net or mybroadband, it reflects exactly what the speeds should be. So I just write it off as them throttling the torrents. Which I get.

But I'll see how they treat me for the next couple of months. If I have issued, I'll just shop around again. Beauty of not having all my eggs in one basket with ADSL.
 
Over-Dose said:
Well, let me just hope that they stay this way, cos what I noticed is that whenever torrents are at a snails pace, and I do a speedtest on speedtest.net or mybroadband, it reflects exactly what the speeds should be. So I just write it off as them throttling the torrents. Which I get.

But I'll see how they treat me for the next couple of months. If I have issued, I'll just shop around again. Beauty of not having all my eggs in one basket with ADSL.
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throttling torrents is not on as they claim they do not throttle AT ALL. and also http downloads were slow as well
 
Fiza said:
throttling torrents is not on as they claim they do not throttle AT ALL. and also http downloads were slow as well
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Where do they claim that?

r00igev@@r said:
Yes, peer to peer is heavily shaped on iBurst, except between 2am and 6am.

The reason it is done is to maintain an overall quality of service for the majority of subscribers who use other services that are less resource intensive than peer to peer and would be adversely affected if it was laissez-faire.
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@ |3ash3r - hope that sheds some light on a different perspective with Afrihost. Can't comment on MWEB, but I have a mate who was with them, using a 4MB line, and he was download chunks of files, and never received a single e-mail from MWEB. Go figure.
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I've heard great things and also bad things about all ISPs regarding ADSL. I guess you just got to pick one and be happy with them.
 
r00igev@@r said:
BTW: The open torrent period is now midnight to 8am - has been like that for over a year.
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I can say that the midnight to 8am flies when downloading but during the day and mostly at night between 7pm and 9pm, I notice drastic dips in speed. I also notice that moving the modem (and ruler like antenna) makes little to no difference in ping, FER% and speed. :(
 
ginggs said:
What's the difference?
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|3ash3r said:
I can say that the midnight to 8am flies when downloading but during the day and mostly at night between 7pm and 9pm, I notice drastic dips in speed. I also notice that moving the modem (and ruler like antenna) makes little to no difference in ping, FER% and speed. :(
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Their network is overloaded during the day and ppl have been struggling with this for that past 5 years and more and iburst did nothing to improve this except give people more bandwith as if that would help. personally stuck it out with iburst for years and finally moved on and all i can say is wow iburst is really like ancient regarding speeds the question I'm asking is why did i stuck it out for so long on a wireless telkom connection cost me about R300 more per month but results are amazing

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2456120602.png

Why would anyone settle for less
 
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