iBurst Speed Test Results

Benoni Area
16st April 2013
08:55pm (Give or take 5 minutes)

As always, these speed tests done with a 1MB Desktop Modem connected to a Flat Panel Antenna. No background programs that could interfere are running, the MTU is set to 1392.

1) iBurst Speed Test (Local)
Download speed = 0.22Mbps
Upload speed = 0.09Mbps
Ping = 53ms
Speed Consistancy: 39%

2) Johannesburg server (speedtest.net)


3) New York server (speedtest.net)


4) Combined Speed Test (testmy.net)


5) MYBB Local Speedtest
Test conducted on 16/4/2013 20:58:27

Download Speed: 221 kbps (27.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 87 kbps (10.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 156 ms

6) MYBB International Speedtest
Test conducted on 16/4/2013 20:59:33

Download Speed: 239 kbps (29.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 87 kbps (10.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 319 ms

These tests are interesting, considering that I was getting speeds close to 1MB/s before the whole Seacom and ICASA vs WBS drama. What exactly is going on, iBurst? And no, this is not a rhetorical question.
 
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Yeah I am going to be downgrading my account to the lowest cap per month that I can just so I can finish paying off this 2mb modem asap, then I am out.

Sick and tired of paying these IDIOTS huge amounts of money for a USELESS service.

I was playing a lot of planetside 2 earlier this year, it was running great on iburst, at the end of February something happened (cable break? cant remember) that made the game completely unplayable, since then I have not been able to play planetside 2 at all, I was in the top 100 leader boards on my server.. you guys DESTROYED THAT ... thanks a lot *******s, I was having fun.

No point in paying you guys money for something I CANNOT USE FOR THE INTENDED PURPOSE THAT I GOT IT FOR. (playing games)

I am in a closed beta for an upcoming mmo, pretty sure that isn't gonna be possible with iburst in its current state

I also bought a flat panel antenna for xmas, before this whole icasa / iburst bullcrap it was working great that's a total waste now as the signal which is usualy flickering green decides to go red every 5 minutes which in turn drops my connection 90% of the time, this never used to happen before this iburst / icasa rubbish and I refuse to PAY someone to fix it. So now when I plug in my omni antenna its no better than the flat panel. (I had a tech guy come here and tell me a flat panel would be the only way to improve my speeds... which now seems useless since it flickers red pretty often.)

I find it hilarious that over the years ibursts service has started to get worse and worse...when the opposite should be happening...

This is ibursts fault .. iburst needs to fix it or be prepared to lose a crap load of customers soon.
 
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Voodoomon said:
Yeah I am going to be downgrading my account to the lowest cap per month that I can just so I can finish paying off this 2mb modem asap, then I am out.

Sick and tired of paying these IDIOTS huge amounts of money for a USELESS service.

I was playing a lot of planetside 2 earlier this year, it was running great on iburst, at the end of February something happened (cable break? cant remember) that made the game completely unplayable, since then I have not been able to play planetside 2 at all, I was in the top 100 leader boards on my server.. you guys DESTROYED THAT ... thanks a lot *******s, I was having fun.

No point in paying you guys money for something I CANNOT USE FOR THE INTENDED PURPOSE THAT I GOT IT FOR. (playing games)

I am in a closed beta for an upcoming mmo, pretty sure that isn't gonna be possible with iburst in its current state

I also bought a flat panel antenna for xmas, before this whole icasa / iburst bullcrap it was working great that's a total waste now as the signal which is usualy flickering green decides to go red every 5 minutes which in turn drops my connection 90% of the time, this never used to happen before this iburst / icasa rubbish and I refuse to PAY someone to fix it. So now when I plug in my omni antenna its no better than the flat panel. (I had a tech guy come here and tell me a flat panel would be the only way to improve my speeds... which now seems useless since it flickers red pretty often.)

I find it hilarious that over the years ibursts service has started to get worse and worse...when the opposite should be happening...

This is ibursts fault .. iburst needs to fix it or be prepared to lose a crap load of customers soon.
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Felt your pain bro, nothing we can do on our side, external antenna...2mb modem....best signal...etc, just BS!
Please let us know how degrading works out there, and how much more money they wanna charge...etc

P.S. currently paying R529 pm for 25+ package and 2mb modem.
 
Early evening...

local
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International
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Im also monitoring my connections in and out bound to make sure no other processes are leeching throughput while connected.
 
Test conducted on 4/22/2013 8:39:35 PM

Download Speed: 615 kbps (76.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 213 kbps (26.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 168 ms

SA server.

Preparing download test for International server...



Still preparing...


Still preparing...

Ok it's running now. Do you know how long a 1MB download takes at 0.07MBps?!

Test conducted on 4/22/2013 8:42:25 PM

Download Speed: 66 kbps (8.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 188 kbps (23.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 367 ms

The speedtest.net site wouldn't load.

The results of the speedtest on the iBurst site are annoyingly hard to reproduce, suffice to say that I only received a data consistency of 52% i.e. sound is likely to be broken. Fancy that!

I have not been able to access the battle.net server for about a month now on my iBurst connection. It's extremely poor service. In fact it's no service at all.
 
essene said:
Test conducted on 4/22/2013 8:39:35 PM

Download Speed: 615 kbps (76.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 213 kbps (26.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 168 ms

SA server.

Preparing download test for International server...



Still preparing...


Still preparing...

Ok it's running now. Do you know how long a 1MB download takes at 0.07MBps?!

Test conducted on 4/22/2013 8:42:25 PM

Download Speed: 66 kbps (8.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 188 kbps (23.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 367 ms

The speedtest.net site wouldn't load.

The results of the speedtest on the iBurst site are annoyingly hard to reproduce, suffice to say that I only received a data consistency of 52% i.e. sound is likely to be broken. Fancy that!

I have not been able to access the battle.net server for about a month now on my iBurst connection. It's extremely poor service. In fact it's no service at all.
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Hi Essene

Could you please supply me with your contact details, contact number, account number and utid number 00126,
so I can get a technical agent to call you and assist you.
You can email all details to [email protected].

Regards
 
Speed test done in Kimberley with only 30% signal strength on USB modem without an antenna.

South African
Test conducted on 24 April 2013 04:42:53 PM
Download Speed: 451 kbps (56.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 141 kbps (17.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 416 ms

International
Test conducted on 24 April 2013 04:49:28 PM
Download Speed: 145 kbps (18.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 124 kbps (15.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 481 ms
 
Slowmow said:
Speed test done in Kimberley with only 30% signal strength on USB modem without an antenna.

South African
Test conducted on 24 April 2013 04:42:53 PM
Download Speed: 451 kbps (56.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 141 kbps (17.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 416 ms

International
Test conducted on 24 April 2013 04:49:28 PM
Download Speed: 145 kbps (18.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 124 kbps (15.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 481 ms
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Speed test done in SunnyRidge with 100% signal strength on Desktop modem.

South African
Test conducted on 29 April 2013 19:14:24
Download Speed: 53 kbps (6.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 73 kbps (9.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 271 ms

International
Test conducted on 29 April 2013 19:17:32
Download Speed: 85 kbps (10.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 69 kbps (8.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 617 ms

OK iBurst, now please explain why such a big difference? Better modem, better signal, why not better speed?
 
Upside of power outage = no congestion

Ah, the joys.... I'm trying to enjoy this while it lasts !


Test conducted on 5/19/2013 10:55:37 PM

Download Speed: 919 kbps (114.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 258 kbps (32.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 175 ms
 
Local Server

Test conducted on 21 May 2013 21:17:21

Download Speed: 45 kbps (5.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 36 kbps (4.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 263 ms

International Server

Test conducted on 21 May 2013 21:22:55

Download Speed: 41 kbps (5.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 47 kbps (5.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 827 ms

Desktop Modem - Signal 100%
Area - Sunnyridge Germiston

Local Server
Test conducted on 21 May 2013 21:17:21
International Server
Test conducted on 21 May 2013 21:22:55

A hole 5min and 34 seconds between the tests and I run it strait after each other with maybe 15 seconds delay

Come on iBurst what is the excuse this time?

Did you know?? The SA Post office is faster to deliver the "snail-mail" with their strike than iBurst delivering an e-mail
 
Test conducted on 22/05/2013 15:57PM

ping www.iburst.co.za

Pinging www.iburst.co.za [196.2.125.95] with 32 bytes of data
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 196.2.125.95:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

Server:
Johannesburg
Hosted by MWEB Connect

Ping = 95ms
Download speed = 0.63Mbps
Upload speed = 0.17Mbps

Server:
New York
Hosted by Atlantic Metro

Ping = 595ms
Download speed = 0.34Mbps
Upload speed = 0.16Mbps
 
Benoni Area
23rd May 2013
07:55pm (Give or take 5 minutes)

As always, these speed tests done with a 1MB Desktop Modem connected right next to a Flat Panel Antenna which is pointed directly at the nearest base station and has a clear LOS. No background programs that could interfere are running, and the MTU is set to 1392.

1) iBurst Speed Test (Local)
Download speed = 0.41Mbps
Upload speed = 0.15Mbps
Ping = 43ms
Speed Consistancy: 67%

2) Johannesburg server (speedtest.net)


3) New York server (speedtest.net)


4) Combined Speed Test (testmy.net)


5) MYBB Local Speedtest
Test conducted on 23/5/2013 20:01:04

Download Speed: 368 kbps (46 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 111 kbps (13.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 154 ms

6) MYBB International Speedtest
Test conducted on 23/5/2013 20:01:59

Download Speed: 398 kbps (49.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 92 kbps (11.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 320 ms

Overall, the results are pretty average, or maybe even below average. I'm certain that if the base station wasn't overloaded, the speeds would be closer to 1Mbps. I've gotten incredible speeds a few times before, though that was mainly thanks to Eskom. When the power goes out for the entire day and only comes back at around 11pm, the base station is all mine.

I do have one complaint. Torrents will absolutely not download (not even a few mb) during the day. Everything seems to work fine closer to 12am, up until mid morning. I know that iBurst has allocated those hours to torrent downloads, but this is a bit extreme. I rarely use torrents, but I do remember being able to download torrents during the day, though it was at a slower pace. Now, torrents don't download at all during the day. Steam downloads are also slow as ever.
 
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Kitch said:
I do have one complaint. Torrents will absolutely not download (not even a few mb) during the day. Everything seems to work fine closer to 12am, up until mid morning. I know that iBurst has allocated those hours to torrent downloads, but this is a bit extreme. I rarely use torrents, but I do remember being able to download torrents during the day, though it was at a slower pace. Now, torrents don't download at all during the day. Steam downloads are also slow as ever.
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You can bypass Ibursts torrent restrictions with Xunlei (thunder download manager). Pm me if you need to know more.
 
The last few weeks of iBurst has been infuriating

Local:

Test conducted on 04 June 2013 05:39:44 PM

Download Speed: 39 kbps (4.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 66 kbps (8.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 863 ms

International does not even start. Has a ping of 1018ms and then just "Prepares for Download"

Speedtest.net does not even open.......
 
RVFmal said:
The last few weeks of iBurst has been infuriating

Local:

Test conducted on 04 June 2013 05:39:44 PM

Download Speed: 39 kbps (4.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed: 66 kbps (8.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency: 863 ms

International does not even start. Has a ping of 1018ms and then just "Prepares for Download"

Speedtest.net does not even open.......
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PM me your co-ords and I'll have a look.
 
Yesterday there we issues w.r.t. power at multiple base stations in the east rand. In addition, some subscribers would have experienced provisioning issues, e.g. static IP address.
 
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Ping: 110ms
Download speed: 1.19Mbps
Upload speed: 0.45Mbps
Server: Neology, Midrand

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Ping: 115ms
Download speed: 1.46Mbps
Upload speed: 0.38Mbps
Server: Neology, Midrand
 
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