iBurst very slow

I am an avid warcraft fan - the problem is that the world of warcraft website utilises p2p to distribute patches,demos and movies and since all p2p is effectively blocked by Iburst/WBS it is impossible to download. More and more sites are using this and have been using this technology legally. Can't there be some comprimise - again I say do not shape or control any of the 3gig we pay for. Do it after the limit has been reached, this will at least keep p2p leeches under control. Any better suggestions are welcome.
 
I find it interesting that they said they had a general problem with UUNET, i did not experience any degraded service over the last week. hmm.... :confused:
 
alchamy said:
I find it interesting that they said they had a general problem with UUNET, i did not experience any degraded service over the last week. hmm.... :confused:
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To be honest, the moment someone shifts blame somewhere else, I immediately suspect they are lying to me, from the moment the UUNET story was spun, I doubted it- a lot more people would've noticed & reported it.

Even the usually apathetic would not have put up with what I experienced on Thursday & Friday, basically I would've been less frustrated if I had not been able to connect at all.
 
Just a quick update, Luis called me this morning (he was on leave, so he is excused for not getting back to me sooner).

From my perspective: fortunately the unresponsiveness problem I was experiencing up to yesterday is not happening today (so far), but Luis said I must just call him the moment it happens again, and he will monitor from his side.

Thank you Luis, much appreciated.
 
We experienced severe degradation last Friday morning, at the same time our upstream povider reported latency issues. This appeared to have affected our network, as degradation continued even after latency issue was resolved - we had to reset one of our devices to resolve the issue on our side.

Issue was eventually resolved approx. Friday 11:00am. Other issues are unrelated to this incident, although poor communication on my side (I was on leave) at the time may have created confusion.
 
Sorry for this going slightly off topic, but anyway Anakin, any plans for a noticeboard on the iBurst site? This would clear up any communication problems.
 
DFantom said:
Sorry for this going slightly off topic, but anyway Anakin, any plans for a noticeboard on the iBurst site? This would clear up any communication problems.
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This should be available shortly. Definately, before we launch iBurst.
 
Just so there is a record of this- the Unresponsiveness problem has been happening again since last Thursday 2004-12-23, and is still happening:

My theory:
  • I suspect that when my UTD sends some data to the basestation, the basestation (or something else inbetween) queues the data in a first-in-first-out (FIFO) queue.
  • What seems to be happening is that the basestation is not releasing that data from the queue and sending it on to where the routers connect up with the internet.
  • When my UTD sends another (unrelated) block of data to the basestation, it appears to trigger the release of the previous (unrelated) block of data from the queue.
  • Very shortly after, the reponse data is received for the just released-from-the-queue data, while the last block of data still sits trapped in the queue.
  • There must be a 60..120 second timeout for trapped data to be released from the queue, bcos you usually wait that long for the reply to your last request to come back (we are talking about simple http here, it happens with this site as well as EVERY other site, it happens with downloads, uploads, absolutely EVERTHING).
The effect of this is an extremely bad iBurst experience.
 
Ok Anakin (Luis) was out on site today, but he called me back a short while ago, I'm going to see if the problem is solved by setting MTU lower...
 
Is there something wrong with iBurst right now? Just logged on and noticed that every international site I go to is slow as hell. The local sites seem fine just a bit slow as well.

Tried downloading a 1MB file from download.com and it's going at 0.7kb/s.
Downloaded a 2MB file from saix.tucows.com and it was slower than usual: 30kb/s, usually +/-110kb/s.

Somebody help!!!
 
Yes, indeed. I experienced exactly the same kind of unreliable and unpredictable **** from Sentech when I signed up for their ****ed up service.
 
Since around 6pm on the 30th, noticed a dropout of signal happening. Stays connected but the bandwidth itself just dies. For up to 6 seconds or more. This interrupts any kind of downloading - local and international, via http, ftp and single thread flashget. Using a dos box to do a perm nonstop ping at iburst seems to force the connection to stay 'alive' - but this is just a temp solution, and the same dropout of signal keeps occurring, screwing up any downloads.
 
LoneGunman said:
Since around 6pm on the 30th, noticed a dropout of signal happening. Stays connected but the bandwidth itself just dies.
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Yup that's what happened to my connection last night and this morning.
Computer's off till midday tomorrow. Time to party and BS.

Wishing all MyADSL users a happy new year!
 
LoneGunman said:
...Stays connected but the bandwidth itself just dies. For up to 6 seconds or more. This interrupts any kind of downloading - local and international, via http, ftp and single thread flashget. Using a dos box to do a perm nonstop ping at iburst seems to force the connection to stay 'alive' - but this is just a temp solution, and the same dropout of signal keeps occurring, screwing up any downloads.
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LG, this sounds ominously like [post=154031]what I've been experiencing 2004-12-23..2004-12-30, can you confirm whether your i-non-burst-experience fits this theory?[/post]
 
Getting the feeling they might be testing there capping for the new year.
 
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