iBurst Cap Query - From When to When?

[RatX]

After two months of being painfully offline at home, my iBurst desktop UTD finally arrived on Friday. So far, I'm happy with the service, especially since I'm not (directly) putting anything in Telkom's coffers. As many posters to this forum have warned, access during the day on Friday was a bit slower than expected.

However, as soon as the evening and weekend rolled around it picked up nicely and I was getting a steady 100KB/s+ from various well sorted sites. I get a steady 95-100% signal, without external antenna (within 5km of Cape Town CBD). Latency has been erratic, but acceptable for my purposes and expectations (not much need for VoIP, P2P or online gaming - mainly web surfing and VPN into my office). Right now it's good - averaging under 300ms to www.google.com.

My question regards the cap - I've done some scouting around on the iBurst site and this forum, but haven't been able to find out over what duration it runs. Is it calendar-month to calendar-month, or does it run for a month from when you sign up? Naturally I've been using the connection quite heavilly as I put it through its paces, so I don't want the fun to end early in December, when I plan to be on leave from work. If anybody can explain how the timing on the cap works, it be will be much appreciated.

Thanks for any info,

RatX

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

It's calender month to calendar month, so you can have fun for the remainding 10 days in this month. You will recieve another full 3 gigs (or 1 or 6 etc.) on 1 december. I had the same situation when i signed up. Pretty good latency though, I dont usually get under 300 to google.com as an average, you should be pretty happy as I'm geussing performance is good as well.

 

[RatX]

Thanks for the quick reply, ekhaatvensters. Busy downloading .NET 1.1 so I can try out utTraceStar, although I think the CBD tower is the only one in my vicinity. Getting 40KB/s and latency remains in the 300ms range, so I guess I'm quite lucky.

 

[alchamy]

You should be getting 120 down with sub 100 pings locally

You can get an idea of decent performance here

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

300ms international (goog.com) isn't bad, i'm shure sub 100ms local is close if you get sub 300 int.
40kb/s isn't much, but 1.5mb isn't really supposed to happen. I've got 1028kb on the Telkom speed test and I'm 7km from my base station also with an antenna, RatX is probably just not multithreading. In his first thread he did say that he gets 100kb+ on various servers, so he lookss ok.

 

[alchamy]

Yup, multithreading makes a huge difference on iBurst.