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Well I was looking forward to 1mbit adsl for some time, because I expected it would provide me with the speeds I have come to expect on iburst but give me better pings and allow me to get a package with a higher monthly bandwidth allocation (30GB). I got to test adsl 1mbit today and was considering getting it for a month or two to sit alongside my iburst connection... well I'm not anymore.
I was a but dissappointed to be honest, the fastest speed I got was 109KB/s off a download and it took time to build up to that speed, pages for local seemed to peak at 80KB/s and pages from international peaked at about 70KB/s, the time between typing a url in firefox and pressing enter and an actual page showing up was a bit alow, actually I thought thats one area the adsl would kill iburst, I expected it to be fast like iburst was before the cache proxy was installed, needless to say it wasnt. I made a simple php test, I had a php script that started a timer and stopped it once the first page data (not http headers) was recieved, I used the URL www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net and iburst was 1/3rd faster than 1mbit adsl, which MUST be due to the ADSL cache proxy because it has better latency so should have been faster. Ibursts final time was 0.8 seconds and 1mbit adsl was 1.2seconds
that might not seem like much but thats a basic test, and what it means is if you happen to multithread in firefox you will have a slower page draw with adsl 1mbit than iburst by about 3 seconds (thats assuming pipelining is set to true and that you have set it to use at least 4 threads)
Pings... ah the pings, they are better, i'll give adsl 1mbit that hands down, but its not better by much and not better enough for what I do. I pinged for 10 minutes on 2 connections, the adsl and the iburst connections. I got 0% loss on both and the average time for adsl was 40ms with a peak of 58ms and the fastest ping was 38ms, with iburst the average was 59ms with a peak of 100ms and the fastest being 55ms.
Its a good connection but I wouldn't call it 1mbit, not with the speeds i've become used to over the last 10 months on iburst, i was even able to download from my server at 132KB/s at 9AM this morning, but adsl never cleared 110KB/s,
So in the end 1mbit adsl is far from superior to iburst BUT you can get a bigger cap with it, which is fantastic if you arent one of the iburst users than seems to do more than 30GB a month anyway. Even if I was to take speed out of the equation there are a few MAJOR worrying factors about 1mbit telkom adsl, first of all ITS TELKOM, then theres the fact that they will hard cap in november, then the price rise in november, then the waiting period... my final verdict is if you have a stable, fast iburst connection barring any major policy changes at WBS iburst beats it hands down unless you're a gamer...
Oh and one thing that pissed me off is that adsl recconects every day, and did so while I was playing around with it... for me, when i think of broadband, staying connected for days/weeks at a tme kinda goes with the image, but maybe thats just me.
Well I was looking forward to 1mbit adsl for some time, because I expected it would provide me with the speeds I have come to expect on iburst but give me better pings and allow me to get a package with a higher monthly bandwidth allocation (30GB). I got to test adsl 1mbit today and was considering getting it for a month or two to sit alongside my iburst connection... well I'm not anymore.
I was a but dissappointed to be honest, the fastest speed I got was 109KB/s off a download and it took time to build up to that speed, pages for local seemed to peak at 80KB/s and pages from international peaked at about 70KB/s, the time between typing a url in firefox and pressing enter and an actual page showing up was a bit alow, actually I thought thats one area the adsl would kill iburst, I expected it to be fast like iburst was before the cache proxy was installed, needless to say it wasnt. I made a simple php test, I had a php script that started a timer and stopped it once the first page data (not http headers) was recieved, I used the URL www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net and iburst was 1/3rd faster than 1mbit adsl, which MUST be due to the ADSL cache proxy because it has better latency so should have been faster. Ibursts final time was 0.8 seconds and 1mbit adsl was 1.2seconds
that might not seem like much but thats a basic test, and what it means is if you happen to multithread in firefox you will have a slower page draw with adsl 1mbit than iburst by about 3 seconds (thats assuming pipelining is set to true and that you have set it to use at least 4 threads)
Pings... ah the pings, they are better, i'll give adsl 1mbit that hands down, but its not better by much and not better enough for what I do. I pinged for 10 minutes on 2 connections, the adsl and the iburst connections. I got 0% loss on both and the average time for adsl was 40ms with a peak of 58ms and the fastest ping was 38ms, with iburst the average was 59ms with a peak of 100ms and the fastest being 55ms.
Its a good connection but I wouldn't call it 1mbit, not with the speeds i've become used to over the last 10 months on iburst, i was even able to download from my server at 132KB/s at 9AM this morning, but adsl never cleared 110KB/s,
So in the end 1mbit adsl is far from superior to iburst BUT you can get a bigger cap with it, which is fantastic if you arent one of the iburst users than seems to do more than 30GB a month anyway. Even if I was to take speed out of the equation there are a few MAJOR worrying factors about 1mbit telkom adsl, first of all ITS TELKOM, then theres the fact that they will hard cap in november, then the price rise in november, then the waiting period... my final verdict is if you have a stable, fast iburst connection barring any major policy changes at WBS iburst beats it hands down unless you're a gamer...
Oh and one thing that pissed me off is that adsl recconects every day, and did so while I was playing around with it... for me, when i think of broadband, staying connected for days/weeks at a tme kinda goes with the image, but maybe thats just me.
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