iBurst Speed Test Results

haha No one from this rubbish company cares about the customers. Well my contract is FINISHED, hell yeah!

Im done with this bullcrap, a soon as I find another wireless ISP I am GONE like a demons whisper!
 
Fair speed, good quality

Speed:
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Quality:
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Server latency = 68ms (41.208.224.1)
Tower = Glenwood, DBN (South Ridge)
Avg Signal = -96dB
Tower Load = 1


Quality of comms is good, but there's definitely signs of speed throttling. Don't usually see it at ungodly hours, and when tower load is only 1, but it's at least quite responsive when browsing.
 
From Speedtest.net

Johannesburg Server:

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Cape Town Server

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International

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Le Sigh......

And this with an external directional antenna whose position has not changed....
 
What's the excuse this time, iBurst?
...
Actually, save the excuses for someone who cares. I think it's time to cancel my contract.

Benoni Area
22nd November 2013
09:40pm (Give or take 10 minutes due to the speed test failing at times)

As always, the speed tests done with a 1MB Desktop Modem connected to a Flat Panel Antenna that's pointed at the nearest, least busy base station. No background programs that could interfere are running, and the MTU is set to 1392.

As a reference, this is a speed test I did back in February, shortly after iBurst sent out a technician who installed the flat panel antenna and optimised everything.
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...Test-Results?p=9812014&highlight=#post9812014

Here are the current results:

1) MYBB Joburg Speedtest
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2) MYBB Cape Town Speedtest
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3) MYBB International Speedtest
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3) iBurst Speed Test
Download speed: 0.11mbps
Upload Speed: 0.00mbps
RTT: 495ms
Speed consistency: 12%

It's just not worth it anymore. I have gigs of data piling up that I can't use due to the horrendous speeds/connection. iBurst is, through their current policies, dictating how I use MY data. Steam and YouTube are basically a no-go, as is almost everything else. I'm throwing money at a useless company while getting nothing in return.
 
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Kitch said:
What's the excuse this time, iBurst?
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Kitch said:
Hi Kitch

Please supply us with your contact details or account details so we can contact you and resolve the problem


Kitch said:
What's the excuse this time, iBurst?
...
Actually, save the excuses for someone who cares. I think it's time to cancel my contract.

Benoni Area
22nd November 2013
09:40pm (Give or take 10 minutes due to the speed test failing at times)

As always, the speed tests done with a 1MB Desktop Modem connected to a Flat Panel Antenna that's pointed at the nearest, least busy base station. No background programs that could interfere are running, and the MTU is set to 1392.

As a reference, this is a speed test I did back in February, shortly after iBurst sent out a technician who installed the flat panel antenna and optimised everything.
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...Test-Results?p=9812014&highlight=#post9812014

Here are the current results:

1) MYBB Joburg Speedtest
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2) MYBB Cape Town Speedtest
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3) MYBB International Speedtest
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3) iBurst Speed Test
Download speed: 0.11mbps
Upload Speed: 0.00mbps
RTT: 495ms
Speed consistency: 12%

It's just not worth it anymore. I have gigs of data piling up that I can't use due to the horrendous speeds/connection. iBurst is, through their current policies, dictating how I use MY data. Steam and YouTube are basically a no-go, as is almost everything else. I'm throwing money at a useless company while getting nothing in return.
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I am also at a point where i want to go stick some equipment where it does not belong.

I have a 2mb Modem, i also have a Flat Panel Antenna pointing at the "best" tower. when i say best, i refer to Line-Of-Sight

Here is a picture of my location and the locations of the towers: iBurstCoverage.jpg

See my previous post:

At first i thought it was signal strength, so i went and bought a flat panel antenna. This to my surprise bosted my speeds to a point where i got extremely close to the 2mbits/s advertised.

But since then, it has slowly started to degrade. it started to disconnect every hour or so. I see this clearly as i am using VPN and it tells me as soon as my internet connection goes down.

I was still managing every hour or so, but lately my connection drops at least once every 2 minutes.

I had a look at my signal strength and it is 100% constantly, i had a look at my error rate, and it is 0.34, which is very low. I also checked if it is not jumping between towers, and it stays on 0001 all the time, only if i change the direction of my flatpanel does it change to a different tower

This signal drop eases later at night, so the only thing i can do on my iburst line is pirate, cause that works from 11pm to 5am

I know for a fact it is not VPN, cause if i use my 3G card my VPN stays connected for days on end.
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I went about trying to play with MTU and here is my results:

MTU - 1492
Server: Johannesburg
Avarege Ping: 159.2
Avarege Upload: 0.284
Avarege Download: 0.35
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3143551589.png - P:141 - U:0.24 - D:0.14
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3143552995.png - P:114 - U:0.31 - D:0.36
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3143554082.png - P:208 - U:0.24 - D:0.49
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3143555488.png - P:204 - U:0.31 - D:0.53
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3143556663.png - P:129 - U:0.32 - D:0.23

MTU -1392
Server: Johannesburg
Avarege Ping: 169.2
Avarege Upload: 0.266
Avarege Download: 0.59
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3143559127.png - P:154 - U:0.29 - D:0.77
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3143560532.png - P:177 - U:0.23 - D:0.44
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3143562198.png - P:175 - U:0.32 - D:0.57
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3143563360.png - P:134 - U:0.26 - D:0.54
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3143564750.png - P:206 - U:0.23 - D:0.63

As you can see, MTU did make a tiny differnce in download speed, however, the speeds are so eratic, that i don't want to beleive it.

I'm also not that keen on changing the MTU as certain websites does not always work if i set my MTU to 1392

I am so sick and tired of constant disconnects... CONSTANT .. CONSTANT ... F'ING CONSTANT
I am so sick ant tired of slow speeds

All i ever get is: Please "pay R375 for a technician to come and assist". I have now had someone here twice, and it always seem fine for a few hours afterwards.... then..... back to this.

Surely.... SURELY, this is not what you expect your customers do live and be happy with.
 

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Polemus said:
I have a 2mb Modem, i also have a Flat Panel Antenna pointing at the "best" tower. when i say best, i refer to Line-Of-Sight
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You may be better off aiming at a base station that doesn't have the best signal strength, but has a lighter load.
 
Put up my external antenna today and my signal went from 80-90% to 100% and now finally getting acceptable speeds, for the cost anyway.

Table View area, Cape Town. 2Mb modem.

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Ping Test:

ping 197.242.144.102

64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=1 ttl=58 time=43 ms
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=2 ttl=58 time=88 ms
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=3 ttl=58 time=89 ms
64 bytes from 197.242.144.102: icmp_req=4 ttl=58 time=43 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 5


ping 8.8.8.8

64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=1 ttl=44 time=273 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=3 ttl=44 time=659 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 4
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=5 ttl=44 time=265 ms


Trace Test:

traceroute -n 197.242.144.102

1 192.168.5.1 3 ms 1 ms
2 41.56.120.1 106 ms
41.213.1.3 191 ms
3 192.168.0.1 116 ms 132 ms
4 41.213.126.1 83 ms 141 ms
5 66.8.42.2 63 ms 188 ms
6 196.31.63.1 57 ms
197.242.144.1 46 ms
7 197.242.144.1 74 ms


traceroute -n 8.8.8.8

1 192.168.5.1 1 ms 1 ms
2 41.213.1.3 96 ms 85 ms
3 192.168.0.1 148 ms
41.213.126.2 90 ms
4 41.213.126.2 48 ms
196.46.25.1 50 ms
5 196.46.25.1 52 ms
Request timed out *
6 Request timed out * *
7 Request timed out *


DNS Test:

nslookup www.afrihost.com

Name: www.afrihost.com
Address: 197.242.144.102


nslookup www.google.com

Name: www.google.com
Address: 74.125.233.51
Name: www.google.com
Address: 74.125.233.52
Name: www.google.com
Address: 74.125.233.49
Name: www.google.com
Address: 74.125.233.50
Name: www.google.com
Address: 74.125.233.48


nslookup thishouldfail.afrihost.com

** server can't find thisshouldfail.com: NXDOMAIN

Im getting these reults and it wont even let me load the absa webpage, takes about 4 minutes, if not otherwise it will time out. iBurst is so ****!
 
Last Result:
International Server:
Download Speed: 1469 kbps (183.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 337 kbps (42.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 283 ms
3/1/2014 3:37:00 PM

Johannesburg Server:
Download Speed: 1900 kbps (237.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 473 kbps (59.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 184 ms
3/1/2014 3:40:38 PM

Download Speed: 1966 kbps (245.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 529 kbps (66.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 185 ms
3/1/2014 3:42:51 PM
 
280.445 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 16 Cost -85 Distance 17 us Load 2
280.445 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 5 Cost -89 Distance 13 us Load 3
280.445 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 4 Cost -89 Distance 34 us Load 2
280.445 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 14 Cost -92 Distance 9 us Load 2
280.445 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 10 Cost -99 Distance 28 us Load 2
290.595 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 31 Cost -76 Distance 9 us Load 1
290.595 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 16 Cost -84 Distance 16 us Load 2
290.595 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 5 Cost -88 Distance 13 us Load 3
290.595 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 4 Cost -89 Distance 33 us Load 2
290.595 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 34 Cost -109 Distance 19 us Load 0
300.745 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 31 Cost -76 Distance 9 us Load 1
300.745 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 16 Cost -83 Distance 16 us Load 2
300.745 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 4 Cost -88 Distance 33 us Load 2
300.745 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 5 Cost -89 Distance 13 us Load 2
300.745 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 14 Cost -92 Distance 9 us Load 2
300.745 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 59 Cost -109 Distance 14 us Load 0
310.895 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 31 Cost -77 Distance 9 us Load 1
310.895 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 16 Cost -85 Distance 16 us Load 2
310.895 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 4 Cost -89 Distance 33 us Load 2
310.895 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 5 Cost -90 Distance 13 us Load 3
321.040 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 31 Cost -76 Distance 9 us Load 1
321.040 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 16 Cost -84 Distance 16 us Load 2
321.040 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 4 Cost -88 Distance 33 us Load 2
321.040 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 14 Cost -93 Distance 31 us Load 2
331.190 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 31 Cost -76 Distance 10 us Load 1
331.190 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 16 Cost -84 Distance 16 us Load 2
331.190 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 4 Cost -88 Distance 33 us Load 2
331.190 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 5 Cost -89 Distance 13 us Load 3
331.190 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 59 Cost -109 Distance 4 us Load 0
341.340 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 31 Cost -76 Distance 10 us Load 1
341.340 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 16 Cost -85 Distance 17 us Load 2
341.340 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 4 Cost -89 Distance 34 us Load 2
341.340 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 14 Cost -94 Distance 32 us Load 2
341.340 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 1 Cost -102 Distance 38 us Load 2
341.340 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 42 Cost -109 Distance 6 us Load 0
341.345 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 3 Cost -111 Distance 8 us Load 0
351.490 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 31 Cost -76 Distance 10 us Load 1
351.490 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 16 Cost -85 Distance 16 us Load 2
351.490 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 4 Cost -88 Distance 33 us Load 2
351.490 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 5 Cost -91 Distance 12 us Load 3
351.490 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 14 Cost -95 Distance 31 us Load 2
351.490 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 27 Cost -109 Distance 1 us Load 3
351.495 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 34 Cost -110 Distance 19 us Load 0
361.640 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 31 Cost -77 Distance 10 us Load 1
361.640 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 16 Cost -84 Distance 16 us Load 2
361.640 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 4 Cost -88 Distance 33 us Load 2
361.640 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 5 Cost -89 Distance 13 us Load 3
371.790 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 31 Cost -76 Distance 9 us Load 1
371.790 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 16 Cost -85 Distance 16 us Load 2
371.790 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 4 Cost -87 Distance 33 us Load 2
371.790 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 5 Cost -90 Distance 13 us Load 3
371.790 rfScanGpp 1 Bscc 14 Cost -96 Distance 31 us Load 2

Download speed is 590kbps and upload is 288kbps latency 126ms on jhb server.The modem is a 1MB desktop
The signal is aligned to Bscc 31 VornaValley which provides -76 db from an omni-directional antenna.
Would a directional antenna provide any additional value / gain?
Thanks
 
Hi sreddi

Yes a directional will give a better gain as it is a higher gain antenna then the omni directional antenna
The omni is 7db gain with the flat panel antenna bieng a 13db gain antenna
 
Does anyone still offer dial up? :whistle:

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Pathetic.......
 
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Server: M-Web Cape Town
Download: 0.73Mbps
Upload: 0.37Mbps
Ping: 50ms

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1) iBurst speed test - Upload speed
- Download speed
Ping www.iburst.co.za - Average milliseconds at the bottom right of your ping.

--- www.iburst.co.za ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100.0% packet loss

2) www.speedtest.net - Johannesburg server
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3497659418
Upload speed: 0.29mbs
Download speed 0.84mbs
Latency 103ms

3) www.speedtest.net - Boston server
http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3497666365
Upload speed 0.24mbs
Download speed 0.78mbs
Latency 324ms
 
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