iBurst speeds - are you affected?

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Hi

With a view to seeing if I am the only one, I thought I would ask people to post their speed results and tower name to see if there is a general speed problem with iBurst. As of yesterday (Monday 21 Jan), speeds have been pretty dismal. I usually get 400-odd kbps during the day. Now I rarely get more than 100kbps. I am connected to Randburg Mintek. Please post your results.

Mine are:
Download 61.6kbps
Upload 19.2kbps
QOS 38%
Round Trip 292ms
Max pause 1259ms

My modem is the same and has not moved. I have still got available bandwidth.

Thanks
 
Day-time snapshot is acceptable - better than dialup.
Night-time stats are better.

Vorna Valley tower on Good (utTraceStar)
with intermittent terrible far towers.
Time: 14:47

Download: 249 kbps
Upload: 144 kbps
QOS: 27%
Round Trip: 120ms
Max pause: 697ms

HTH.
Meths
 
I have an indoor antenna and I usually average around 400-500kbps and have seen the occasional 900kbps+ after midnight, but for the past week or so, my speeds have been absolutely pathetic!

I used to get a 100% signal, but lately it's been fluctuating between 50% and 90%!

Time: 17:17
Download: 139 kbps
Upload: 57.8 kbps
QOS: 43%
Round Trip: 67ms
Max pause: 825ms

Regarding the mail problem: I have been trying to send two small (text only) e-mails since 13:15, to no avail!!

:mad: :mad: :mad:
 
Download : 832 kbps
Upload : 251 kbps
Quality of Service : 75%
Round trip : 70 ms
Max pause : 77 ms
 
Gardens Centre Cape Town CBD

Yagi Ext Antenna (15dB gain), 1.2 Km from tower - direct line of sight (best reception area)

730 kbps after office hours
100 -200 kbps in ofice hours

pathetic even with external antenna iBurst should be taken to ASA...

41.208.227.162 - 892.60kbps
41.208.224.104 - 638.80kbps
41.208.227.115 - 24.20kbps
41.208.228.97 - 997.20kbps
41.208.227.219 - 700.40kbps
41.208.229.51 - 814.70kbps
41.208.224.199 - 810.10kbps
41.208.230.119 - 184.90kbps
41.208.228.26 - 123.10kbps
41.208.226.27 - 100.20kbps
41.208.229.1734 - 401.80kbps
41.208.225.253 - 428.90kbps
41.208.230.223 - 354.70kbps
41.208.230.219 - 572.10kbps
41.208.227.47 - 817.00kbps
41.208.225.249 - 941.10kbps
41.208.230.25 - 775.90kbps
41.208.224.15 - 847.70kbps
41.208.230.47 - 746.60kbps
41.208.230.33 - 566.40kbps
41.208.227.29 - 407.00kbps
41.208.225.206 - 543.90kbps
41.208.224.194 - 457.70kbps
41.208.230.171 - 740.00kbps
41.208.229.189 - 358.80kbps
41.208.224.199 - 430.30kbps
41.208.225.145 - 712.20kbps
41.208.225.207 - 797.70kbps
 
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As of yesterday afternoon, my speeds suddenly went back up again. 270kbps download speeds. This morning (Thurs 25 Jan) speeds are still good (just done one now - 424kbps). So seems this problem (in my area anyway - Randburg Mintek) is now fixed. Hooray!
 
Up and down...

I installed my external antenna over the weekend, and I was getting 800kpbs DL no problem. Last night I couldn't manage 300kbps. :mad:
 
Speeds at 15:00

Transmission Speeds

BS 27 - Illovo
High gain yagi antenna.
Line of sight - 3 to 4 kilometres distant.

db is -67 to -72 (sampled 20 cycles)
Load is 2
(Used to be 1 - BS becoming more loaded with corresponding performance degradation)

Continuous ping x 100
Min - 46ms, Max - 1437ms, Ave - 311ms (no packet loss)

iBurst speed tests

1. down - 245
1. up - 101
1. QOS - 42%

2. down - 345
2. up - 146
2. QOS - 42%

3. down - 343
3. up - 124
3. QOS - 35%

This is all a far cry from the "up to" 1mbps that I thought I was paying for.
R599 + R12 (security suite) + R159 for the extra gig over the 3 gig hard cap that I seem to need every month.
The R770 that I pay should really be R256.67 at the speeds I am getting.

Ed, you give me one third the speed I expected, then you should be charging me one third of the price!


Conducting Business Speeds

Yesterday, I could not send out any emails. I was receiving emails courtesy of my pop3.telkomsa.net but could not react to them due to iBurst's server maladies, with consequent detrimental effect on my business. I still have difficulty in comprehending how a service-oriented business such as iBurst can have no reliable fall-back email mechanism.

In my view, while having high speed transfer rates is important, it is a very distant second to reliable email service, hence my inclusion of email performance in a transmission speed discussion thread.
 
Daytime: 400 - 600kb/s
Night time: (After 7) = 700 - 900kb/s


Like I said, no problems on my side. I've always experienced these speeds.
 
Time: 02:00

Download : 524 kbps
Upload : 202 kbps
Quality of Service : 73%
Round trip : 48 ms
Max pause : 318 ms


So, this proves that my indoor antenna is working just fine, right? :confused:
 
Test at 05:00

BS 27 - Illovo
High gain yagi antenna.
Line of sight - 3 to 4 kilometres distant.

db is -69 to -71 (sampled 20 cycles)
Load is 0

Continuous ping x 100
Min - 53ms, Max - 308ms, Ave - 82ms (no packet loss)

iBurst speed tests

1. down - 720
1. up - 289
1. QOS - 77%

2. down - 670
2. up - 243
2. QOS - 60%

3. down - 834
3. up - 226
3. QOS - 85%
 
Edenval tower (Alberton area)

Signal strength: -93db (94% per iBurst UTL)

Download speed between 4kbps and 62kbps
Upload speed between okbps and 1kbps

Speeds are PATHETIC at present and they dont reply to emails of complaints nor to phone calls when they say they will call back they dont - it has been like that for 10 days now.
 
michel said:
Edenval tower (Alberton area)

Signal strength: -93db (94% per iBurst UTL)

Download speed between 4kbps and 62kbps
Upload speed between okbps and 1kbps

Speeds are PATHETIC at present and they dont reply to emails of complaints nor to phone calls when they say they will call back they dont - it has been like that for 10 days now.
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Get capped man.... at least then you are getting about 40-90% of what you expect :D :o
 
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