iburst for Mac

[bobski]

Having issues sending out files especially attachments in Mail. Thought it may have something to do with MTU sizing etc... but really dont know how to pin point this issue?

Any help mac aficionados?

 

[sihen]

try changing your MTU size to 1432, use smtp.wbs.co.za or smtp.uunet.co.za

 

[Phillip]

Oh dear.

The MTU size will make no difference, nor will using the WBS SMTP. Nor will changing your transmit or receive windows, rolling back to OS 10.3.5, doing a clean install, using iBurst on ethernet or USB, reinstalling the drivers, uninstalling the drivers, using a different DNS server, manually setting your IP, using Eudora, using a SOCKS proxy, dancing naked around your machine or blowing sage smoke on it.

I have tried all of these under the influence of WBS, which promised me it was my problem but wasn't prepared to help me solve it because, as it turns out, that whole thing about Mac support was bull****.

The problem is your non-existent uplink. You can send HTTP requests but nothing else. See the FTP thread you started.

I just hope you didn't waste 2.5 weeks (and counting) of your time to figure out the same things.

 

[anakin]

Phillip

We are experiencing upload speed issues on some base stations - these are being resolved. These should nevertheless still be bearable, besides Northcliff which is still experiencing extremely critical degraded upload performance.

Which area are you in?

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[Phillip]

I'm in Midrand, Glen Austin AH, and I put it to you that you have critical degraded upload performance there too. I've seen a maximum of 50 bits (no, not kilobits) and that has not changed as of 2 minutes ago.

 

[anakin]

Bobski

Mind emailing me through the forum with your contact details please? I'll try to look into your problem.

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[gaza]

Philip,
Been through pretty much the same process with the Mac as you , tried al the oiptions , tricks and tweaks , same result , I can still time this iSlow with a calendar.
I am in Lonehill area .
I am ready to burn this thing....or give in and live with it.

 

[slimothy]

yeah I just thought I would mention that if someone from WBS tells you to set your MTU, don't listen to them, it doesn't do jack basically, it just makes the packet sizes smaller and is completly irrelavant unless you personally set your MTU to something way way too high, which nobody ever does. I have a solution for you all though.. buy a PC

 

[Jerry]

Well, I hate to do a Slimothy here, but I'm on a Mac, and after changing the MTU to 1352, finding the 'sweet spot' & running a permanent background ping, I've got no problems uploading. That's from Randburg AND Lonehill. Sometimes the upload speeds actually seems to overtake the download speeds!

 

[Jerry]

"...buy a pc.."

Slimothy, I wouldn't wish that solution on my worst enemy!

 

[slimothy]

Well, I hate to do a Slimothy here, but I'm on a Mac, and after changing the MTU to 1352, finding the 'sweet spot' & running a permanent background ping, I've got no problems uploading. That's from Randburg AND Lonehill. Sometimes the upload speeds actually seems to overtake the download speeds!

I would have to say that finding your sweet spot was the contributing factor