Iburst slow?

[Mercury]

...and they sell voice over this connection?!?

To be fair they have sorted the Security Now problem and the pings look quite a bit better, except for the local ones. (!?) Most international downloads are still relatively slow.

----83.138.189.100 PING Statistics----
66 packets transmitted, 66 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 220/296/670

----196.4.160.12 PING Statistics----
66 packets transmitted, 66 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 40/142/520

----196.30.31.120 PING Statistics----
66 packets transmitted, 65 packets received, 1% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 60/2242/4080

 

[Leno]

Every site I do a tracert to it times out at the third hop - anyone else?

...


2 133 ms 49 ms 49 ms 192.168.0.97
3 * * * Request timed out.

...

Its probably another set of PRIVATE ip space (RFC 1918/4193)
they are using on their public network

This traffic is normally blocked all over the place as a security check...

 

[Hein_JHB]

I am having problems sending emails, size of 5KB, timing out and sometimes after the second or third try it works but is very slow.

And also when sending emails in gmail.

It started this morning

 

[PeterCH]

Every site I do a tracert to it times out at the third hop - anyone else?


C:\>tracert www.goolgle.com

Tracing route to www.goolgle.com [208.73.210.50]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 52 ms 49 ms 119 ms wbs-41.208.192.1.wbs.co.za [41.208.192.1]
2 68 ms 54 ms 54 ms 192.168.0.97
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 91 ms 64 ms 49 ms rndf-ip-ll-1-wan.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.25.200.97]

Tracing Google.com is useless unless you want to test local sites. Google.com
is hosted locally unless you go via a proxy and find a genuine Google.com
IP address - ie hosted in the US.

 

[Leno]

funny my traceroutes go over sea's

AFAIK its not hosted here yet, they only have a presence here
AKAMAI sites are cached locally though

IS route server shows no signs of google's ip that i resolve, nor 208.73.210.50 which noswal resolved

 

[andrieso]

Not so slow...

Out of boredom I thought I'd do a speed test and these are the results, probably the highest I have ever had:

Download 961kbps
Upload 290kbps
Quality 95%
Round trip time 49ms
Max pause 286ms

No external antenna. Montana Park, Pretoria region, relatively close to the mountain with line of sight to the towers. 12/02/2009, 17:10 afternoon and overcast - conditions and time when my connection is often slow. I assumed I could paste the screen capture here though but found no option to insert an image.

 

[iBurst]

Evening all.

Please remember to contact me with your detail so I can be of assistance with your speed issues.

We have found 2 reasons for 95% of our speed issues.

1. quality of signal (decibel reading) not the quantity which the iBurst utility is providing.

2. incorrectly set MTU size. 1392 for normal use and 1364 for VPN use.

Send your details through to [email protected] or call me on 084-978-0790


Cheers

Shaun

 

[Durandal]

Evening all.

Please remember to contact me with your detail so I can be of assistance with your speed issues.

We have found 2 reasons for 95% of our speed issues.

1. quality of signal (decibel reading) not the quantity which the iBurst utility is providing.

2. incorrectly set MTU size. 1392 for normal use and 1364 for VPN use.

Send your details through to [email protected] or call me on 084-978-0790


Cheers

Shaun

Poor Shaun is going to get flooded. I'm certain my MTU settings are as he's mentioned. How does one check again, though? I still maintain it's a congestion problem, or their towers ain't working properly. I've now emailed MWEB to ask them how long the iBurst contract lasts for, because my signal problems have become so bad, some nights I might as well not even try log on. Need to get out and find a decent ISP. If one exists...

 

[noswal]

To check MTU type at command prompt (can be any domain) 1367+28=1392 the 28 is an overhead

C:\> ping -f -l 1364 mybroadband.co.za it should return a normal ping. Increment the number by 2 or 10 and will give Packet needs to be fragmented but DF set - which is saying number it is set at is wrong.

to set it, use Drtcp from www.dslreports.com/drtcp this for XP, not sure about vista