Iburst on Speed

[seburn]

The entire week we have had great iburst experience with acceptable speeds of 500+Kbits/sec and disconnections reduced extremely. We now have a record connect time still going today of 14h 10m 55s. Is it going to snow? Is this going to last?

 

[P0tenc]

My iburst experience has been great for the last 4 weeks or so....and now 0.8kb/s.

 

[Ares]

Speed seems to come and go but disconnections still problem here, specially in the mornings between 8-11, gets as bad as 6-10 disconnection in the hour.

 

[seburn]

Bad? Thats not bad! Try what we used to get up to 18hr disconnections and on avergage 6hrs per day (during business hours maily) disconnection.

 

[swordfish1]

I see, there is one thread of people saying how great iBurst has been for the last few days/weeks, and there is another thread saying how crap it got last few days/weeks ... so it looks to me that WBS has a rotating scheme, few days some subscribers got a service and the others suck crap, then switch around ... and make it a bit random so it is not that obvious ... so they can feed 1000 iBurst users from a single uncapped ADSL account for R1500 or so

my theory is that WBS want to get rid of all people that actually actively use their internet .. they want to have bunch of grannies that check their email once a week, and read the e-news and pay for that R600 per month ...

Only problem I have with that, is that this should be stated clearly in their advertising, but it isn't! So they are misadvertising, or in other words they lie !!!

 

[jmn]

my theory is that WBS want to get rid of all people that actually actively use their internet .. they want to have bunch of grannies that check their email once a week, and read the e-news and pay for that R600 per month ...

Which may be in contrast with or actually supporting alternatives, as per WitWolf's post http://www.mybroadband.co.za/vb/showpost.php?p=242742&postcount=1

 

[seburn]

Maybe not so good today just had 02:07:50 disconnection from 14:29:29 - 16:37:19

 

[slimothy]

my connection is pretty fast, so its all good this side, who cares anymore anyway, its like if you can't take the poking WBS do just leave, you know they wont change cuz you say they should, ADSL is cheap now and you can get a 192kbit connection like swordfish and all of them

 

[Roman4604]

I'm on Kyalami BS ... only had one disconnect (Tue 11h05) for 3 min since Sun morning. Download speed ave. 105 KB/Sec.

Maybe you got some local problems seburn.

 

[rastracmx]

Well, seems to be the same this end, Elarduspark. I am really frustrated, especially after paying and being offered a static ip i their advertisements.
Liars, thugs? I dont' really care but these fools are laughable

 

[slimothy]

why on earth did you pay for a static Ip

 

[rastracmx]

Nope, did not pay. I decided on i^%$# simply because the offered this at a reasonable rate, R190.00/ month, and the application I wish to run requires a static ip. Got connected and then requesting the static ip was told, sorry, we do not offer the service at this stage! Seems ICASA and ASA will be receiving a legitimate complaint soon. Any suggestions on the static ip? My little business is failing because of their crap service.

 

[slimothy]

tell us more about the service? why dont you use a dynamic IP service to resolve a domain or subdomain to whatever your IP is, like www.dyndns.org and others

 

[Alter]

There are free ways to do the static IP thing, even with ADSL. And much more stable.

 

[rastracmx]

slimothy, the application does not support ddns and this has been confirmed with the developer in the US. Basically, fleet management with some really cool features such as supporting a multitude of communications platforms, ie. Inmarsat, CDPD, GSM/GPRS, Conventional Two-Way radio etc.

 

[Alter]

Sorry I'm a bit slow here, what Slim said.

 

[rastracmx]

Alter, slow you say? Well, I think I am a bit slower where it relates to IT. My game; Comms.
The i$%&^ has been set up and running and I am only now starting to experience problems. Been watching and reading the forums but did not want my luck changed. Now it has happened and I will voice my unhappiness!

 

[nocilah]

my iburst experience thus far is like a yo yo. iburst is certainly not as stable as adsl... but for now it works and does what i need... i dont think i will renew with wbs though.

 

[slimothy]

slimothy, the application does not support ddns and this has been confirmed with the developer in the US. Basically, fleet management with some really cool features such as supporting a multitude of communications platforms, ie. Inmarsat, CDPD, GSM/GPRS, Conventional Two-Way radio etc.

sounds awesome, but not sure why it wouldnt work with a domain instead of an IP? does it perhaps only take IP formatted input in a box or soemthing?

 

[rastracmx]

Slimothy, I have asked the developer who was quite clear that I needed a static ip or had to have a processor program running on a server with static ip.
Will need to get a little more info, but these guys sometimes can be frustrating to work with, especially with my IT knowledge.