iBurst very slow

I wonder why there is such a vast difference in the download speeds we are getting. My iBurst has been flying since the time I first got with no problems at all. The Force might just be with me... but torrents run fast, DC++ runs at full ( 120kB) speed, international pings stay well below 600ms.

On the test we are all running I am also clocking a nice 50kB average download.
http://www.tcpiq.com/tcpIQ/LineSpee...ountryId=196&ConnectionId=11302&UserId=146562
Oh... and these tests usually run while I am busy playing City of Heroes.

I have a friend also on iBurst in the same complex I live, I am going to get him on the test and see what his speeds are. Maybe we are living in a hot broadband spot.
*Bishop sees property price increases in the near future*
 
LG, will call a wookie to get to a Jedi, as soon as I have rein-forced-my-light-sabre (with some packet capturing), busy with other urgent stuff now, besides stutter has left my hovel in search of Bishop ;)
 
Hi, I am in Douglasdale, between Bryanston and Fourways.

The storm the other night seriously dropped my stats, but I seem to be back at 50 again. How or Why I do not know, I am just enjoying it ;)
 
to the wbs guys: my connection is EXTREMELY slow... what's going on? it's been like this for this whole week...

this is not good...

:(
 
Mine connection seems even slower. Is there any way to see which tower I am actually connecting too?

I have a suspicion it may be Midrand, which is far from Paulshof. I am using PC card as I do travel, but can't wait for WBS to bring in the Antenna. I need to pick this speed up, otherwise I will just have to change to ADSL.

Yak, at least you don't have these crappy speeds......

http://www.tcpiq.com/tcpIQ/LineSpee...ountryId=196&ConnectionId=11307&UserId=146695
 
mbb, agreed those are not really speeds, they are unclassifiable/undefined.

The only way to find out (for sure) which tower you are connecting to, is by calling the WBS helpdesk.

I know that I am on the Bryanston tower bcos that is the only one in range, or so I have been told.

When you confirm 100% the tower you are connecting to, please ask them what the distance is from you to the tower, curious to know if you are outside the 12Km..13Km max range.
 
I'm connecting to the Midrand tower, and my LEDs are disco lights. 0, then 100, then 50, then 0... nuts. Anything I should know of???
 
[thread=16600]Raithlin, yes, please post that in this thread & call Luis @ WBS in the morning[/thread].
 
Temporary Strategy for dealing with Burst-i stuttering/unresponsiveness...

Been experiencing the attack of the stuttering/unresponsiveness thing again- for the last 10mins, running another manual test now.

Added: Just been to check my results, and AGAIN it shows a problem with UploadSpeed==0! Most of the time the download speed is still ok but unusable (unless you know how to be tricksy), the trend is 0 upload speed with the stuttering/unresponsiveness issue.

Since WBS don't seem to believe there is a problem, I suggest that whenever your Burst-i has a stuttering/unresponsiveness problem, do a manual test & post here as well so that the raw test results data can be matched to what you were experiencing.

If we all do this, we can document the problem effectively and force WBS to do some legwork bcos it is clearly recurring and definitely not isolated.

Added: Easiest WORKAROUND, when you experience the stuttering/unresponsiveness problem, just do what LoneGunman suggested, i.e. run this in the background:
Code: 
ping -t www.iburst.co.za
it works like a charm for me, should work for everyone else as well, with the added benefit of increasing traffic to www.iBurst.co.za.
 
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lets get some numbers

i'm setting up some latency monitoring up at the moment.

is there a way i can post the graphs (.PNG's) to this forum?

i'm also experiencing degradation in service. (comparing it to mid-december)

unfortunately i don't have the numbers from when i first subscribed.

chz,
kuberkoos
 
kuberkoos said:
...is there a way i can post the graphs (.PNG's) to this forum?

i'm also experiencing degradation in service. (comparing it to mid-december)...
Click to expand...
I know what you mean, you could try the
 
i don't want to make it available from my machine at home. the traffic generated by that will skew the very results that i'm trying to measure. catch 22.

i don't have anywhere else to host the stuff so i'd be cool if i could attach it to a message to this forum.

just finihed setting up measurements to
- localhost (as sanity check)
- my ppp ip (to see when connection was down - could be my own fault)
- to ppp peer (could be the tower? or some iburst device)
- www.wbs (traceroute showed it was relatively close)
- is.co.za, saix.net etc (some big local ISPs/IXs)

- more to come...

chz,
kk
 
Well how about a free hosting account somewhere- just upload the .png's & post the url's to the png's here?
 
Results of my continuous background ping -t www.iburst.co.za, which I have just ended (and just had to start again bcos the unresponsiveness problem is still happening): Up to: 2005-01-07T16:17:00
Code: 
Ping statistics for 196.30.192.182:
Packets: Sent = 13403, Received = 10690, Lost = 2713 (20% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 30ms, Maximum =  1453ms, Average =  167ms
I should not be forced to do this to get iBurst to work.

I certainly don't want to have to do this when the cap is implemented, as everyone says- fun (not) & games ahead...

Added: Up to 2005-01-07T17:54:00:
Code: 
Ping statistics for 196.30.192.182:
Packets: Sent = 5560, Received = 5180, Lost = 380 (6% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 30ms, Maximum =  1372ms, Average =  104ms
somewhat less packet loss, but then it ran for less time, and according to the test results graph my upload speeds have picked up a bit from 0Kbps.

I am going to try installing SmoothWall this w/e in a virtual machine, and then get SmokePing going, Dorris - are you back from your holiday yet...might need some advice - well not to worry I will look @ the community forum first - then I will bug you (only kidding).
 
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