iBurst "resets" every 30s or so, even though 100% signal?

[bertvl]

Hi,

I just received my iBurst yesterday. I have a 100% signal where I live (Erasmuskloof,Pretoria), and the access speeds were awesome last night (was getting up to 100kB/s sometimes). However, about every 30 seconds or so, all my signal strength lights go off, and go on again about 2-3 seconds later. This is OK for downloads, but really irritating for interactive ssh shell sessions, since the data stops flowing for a few seconds during which you type blindly.

Is this normal, or is something wrong? I am using the UTD via PPPoE, the UTD is connected to a little SMC broadband router/firewall/NAT box, but I had the same result doing PPPoE direct from linux and windows...

Thanks in advance

 

[Unchained]

I had a similar experience, eventually concluded that it doesn't really reset but switch from one tower to another, in my case it was Wonderboom and Sunnyside, had similar signal strengths from both.

 

[P0tenc]

Try using an antenna or moving your UTD around the house

 

[regardtv]

Yip ... it's simply tower creep.

As much as WBS refuse to admit it the tower selection policy on their firmware sometimes goes fubar ... it actually even selects towers completely out of range...

 

[bertvl]

Try using an antenna or moving your UTD around the house

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately not so easy, the antennas seem to be quite pricey (R500??), and I cannot really move my UTD unless I make a long cable. Will try it perhaps and see. I will maybe also try to plug in via usb in windows and see if my tower keeps changing, I think the only towers within range are elarduspark and centurion. I would've thought 100% signal strength would be a good indication for the UTD not to switch towers, but I guess it depends on a lot of factors (multipath distortion, number of users, etc?)

 

[Crash]

/me harps on his own horn

Use iConnect

 

[bertvl]

I'm too lazy to read the doc, does it work through ethernet or usb? I'm guessing USB right? Unless kyocera/iburst was kind enough to provide that info via some debugging packets on the ethernet...

 

[Jongi]

Yip ... it's simply tower creep.

As much as WBS refuse to admit it the tower selection policy on their firmware sometimes goes fubar ... it actually even selects towers completely out of range...

i can never understand why if my antenna is pointed directly at sandton i pick all sorts of other stations.

 

[DFantom]

does it work through ethernet or usb?

Both. It was actually developed with ethernet so that is the recommended option

 

[bertvl]

Both. It was actually developed with ethernet so that is the recommended option

I'm curious, how does iConnect get the info over ethernet? Does the device implement something like SNMP, or is it a proprietary protocol which crash reverse engineered or got somewhere?

 

[fishfly]

guys how's this... I'm in hyde park area, apprently there was a rumour about some kinda tower being setup here... but hell my modem decides to connect itself between Northcliff, rosebank and hardly sandton area... what's up with this ***?

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Antennas?

i can never understand why if my antenna is pointed directly at sandton i pick all sorts of other stations.

Well the WBS antenna does work with 25 degrees extra range on either side (if that makes sense) so it can pick up towers a little bit too the left or right just as well as ones its pointed directly at. So I'm geussing its connecting to a tower just to the side of Sandton that it can also see, you need a directional antenna i think...

 

[Simple Twist Of Fate]

wbs/iburst

no comment

 

[seburn]

Both versions of iconnect use a telnet of the utd to retrieve the data.
Gres figured out how to do this and I have no clue how he did.
Read more at www.unchained.co.za under UTD access info