iBurst tower IP numbers

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jmn

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I think it will be a good idea if WBS will publish the IP numbers associated with towers, eg on the Network Status page.
I connect to:
196.30.31.100
196.30.31.101
and I suspect one is Wonderboom and the other Sunnypark, but I don't know which IP is which tower. I normally get better speeds on 196.30.31.101 than on 196.30.31.100.
 
jmn said:
I think it will be a good idea if WBS will publish the IP numbers associated with towers, eg on the Network Status page.
I connect to:
196.30.31.100
196.30.31.101
and I suspect one is Wonderboom and the other Sunnypark, but I don't know which IP is which tower. I normally get better speeds on 196.30.31.101 than on 196.30.31.100.
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I dunno what/where 196.30.31.101 is, but one thing I do know is that both 196.30.31.100 and 196.30.31.101 are UUNET owned IP addresses [do a lookup in whois.afrinic.net / whois.arin.net].

It is quite well known by iBurster forumites that there is no visible pingable/traceable IP address for each of the base-stations, 196.30.31.100 is always the 1st iBurst IP I get no matter what base-station I connect to in Jhb [not that I have tried all of them], perhaps 196.30.31.101 is at the UUNET Cape Town NOC...
 
ic said:
It is quite well known by iBurster forumites that there is no visible pingable/traceable IP address for each of the base-stations, 196.30.31.100 is always the 1st iBurst IP I get no matter what base-station I connect to in Jhb [not that I have tried all of them], perhaps 196.30.31.101 is at the UUNET Cape Town NOC...
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Tx, didn't realize that...
 
jmn said:
Tx, didn't realize that...
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No problemo :).

It would be preferable for customers to have a pingable/traceable IP address that's specific to each base-station - that way we could figure out a lot more than we can at this stage whenever there are network problems - would be extremely useful in determining whether one's base-station is experiencing high-contention/usage, or if the problem is upstream of the base-station, would also be useful to determine whether each base-station has a different MTU...
 
the connection to the base station gets tunneled through to the actual internet connection, so you will never be able to see what tower it is (they all will be on an internal IP range not registered with the internet anyway)
 
slimothy said:
preferabal for you maybe
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Ok then, I would definitely prefer it if I had a [simple] means of figuring out whether there was a problem at a base-station, or upstream of the base-station - all without having to pickup the phone & waste money calling WBS who usually say

"none of the base-stations are down ATM...you are the problem...change your MTU..."
 
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