iBurst Speed Test Results

Bursty-dude said:
krono, you are very lucky. Our 1Mb modem does not even connect and this is what we are getting for the last 2 weeks with a 2Mb modem:
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Wow, that's bad. I live like 500m from a tower.. always have atleast 95% signal.. During business hours speeds aren't that great.. but after hours and weekends its good enough.. Almost no point in you have a 2MB modem with those speeds.. maybe the tower is overloaded in your area...
 
Overloaded towers in the area. Not just one tower, all of the ones that can be "seen" by the flat panel antenna and has been confirmed by all the Tech dudes who have been to our place to check why the speed is so slow. A fact that iBurst does not want to admit to or simply does not give a hoot about, in spite of complaining about it for 10 months now.

We have been paying 800 bucks a month for dial up speeds for 10 months now, while before December 2011 we would regularly see over 2Mb/s during the day and even in bad weather.

I even offered them a spot in our garden to put up a new tower. No jokes, I actually did that, but the offer was ignored.

And I have tried all the MTU and TCP settings I could find with regards to the 2Mb modem, and still no luck, it is an iBurst problem sadly and they seem to do nothing about the issue besides the usual "there are no known problems" bull-twang answers and sending techs out to just waste their time and my time to confirm over and over again that the problem is there's and not mine...
 
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Mine has also been down to about 300kb/s for the last couple of days, it's not been the greatest.
 
you guys need to realise that iburst is one of the worst, if not, THE worst, ISP in the country! If you are able to move away from them, then you should. Since I left in August, it's like I've transitioned from the 3rd world to something bordering on the 1st world, and I cant believe i waited for so long.
 
Markd said:
you guys need to realise that iburst is one of the worst, if not, THE worst, ISP in the country! If you are able to move away from them, then you should. Since I left in August, it's like I've transitioned from the 3rd world to something bordering on the 1st world, and I cant believe i waited for so long.
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Yeah that might be the case, but when the telecoms company in your own country cannot supply you with lines, and the other wifi options want to charge you three times the price for less bandwidth the choices aren't exactly high are they.
 
Markd said:
you guys need to realise that iburst is one of the worst, if not, THE worst, ISP in the country! If you are able to move away from them, then you should. Since I left in August, it's like I've transitioned from the 3rd world to something bordering on the 1st world, and I cant believe i waited for so long.
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they still work out most cost effective for me and the amount of bandwidth i use , and no way in hell im ever wiling to deal with telkom so ADSL is curently out of the question
 
http://www.speedtest.net/result/2191993153.png

Can you people please just get this network running like it once was?

We gladly paid for a service that was once almost hassle free and got 2+Mb/s during the day last year, now we sit with dial-up speeds since December 2011, yet we must still pay the same amount every month. Blatant theft of our money for the last 10 months if you ask me.......

I can guarantee you that if we had to cancel the stop order at the bank so that iBurst cannot get there money at the end of the month, we would have phone calls, e-mails and lawyer's letters of demand thrown our way.

I demand to get the 2Mb/s we used to have, easy as that. We don't have corporate lawyers and BS stories of "there are no known issues" and fine print to hide behind like you can, so just give us the 2Mb/s speeds we used to get.
 
Bursty-dude said:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/2191993153.png

Can you people please just get this network running like it once was?

We gladly paid for a service that was once almost hassle free and got 2+Mb/s during the day last year, now we sit with dial-up speeds since December 2011, yet we must still pay the same amount every month. Blatant theft of our money for the last 10 months if you ask me.......

I can guarantee you that if we had to cancel the stop order at the bank so that iBurst cannot get there money at the end of the month, we would have phone calls, e-mails and lawyer's letters of demand thrown our way.

I demand to get the 2Mb/s we used to have, easy as that. We don't have corporate lawyers and BS stories of "there are no known issues" and fine print to hide behind like you can, so just give us the 2Mb/s speeds we used to get.
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^^ Network Congestion ^^

Basically; the traffic has increased thanks to increased sales and a lack of infrastructure expansion, and so it slows everyone down. I personally get orgasmic speeds at ungodly hours of the night, although during normal hours 0.4mbps is medal-worthy.

As for the rest of your post....welcome to the third world, my friend. :D
 
Yes, network congestion that iBurst does absolutely nothing about.
Oh well, only another 5 months of this next-to-useless internet after being loyal iBurst customers for 10+ years.
 
Steam downloads, just under 2Mbps:
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This at a client in River Club, WELL within hairy old Mark 1 eyeball range of the station - it's across the road from the said client office. Oh, and with a 2MB modem (but, to be completely open, with a buncha trees in the way of actually seeing said base)
 
It's storming here in Cape Town.
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On a Silver Surfer, no line of sight to basestation 2.3km away.
 
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I'm losing faith in speedtest.net; I get varying results from different servers, sometimes even from the same servers, and I can't always pick the servers I want to use.

Below are some "real world" tests done on a Silver Surfer.

YouTube between 12:00 and 14:00 and BitTorrent from 21:00:
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Multiple HTTP downloads in parallel:
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By my calculations, that's averaging 1680kbps.
 
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