iBurst very slow

ARGH! this is SO frustrating!!! Come on guys! Fix it allready! I've sent Luis and Dylan messages and none of them are coming back to me...

This is irritating... I'm starting to lose my trust in WBS allready :(
 
A link to the MyWireless forum - a rather odd way of me saying "I've seen this all before" :D

I think I had too many beers at lunch yesterday !
 
bb_matt said:
A link to the MyWireless forum... - a rather odd way of me saying "I've seen this all before" :D

I think I had too many beers at lunch yesterday !
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Ok, not obtuse - just me being a bit slow on the uptake :), I'm sure the Burst-i forum will definitely be similar to the MW forum soon enough :rolleyes:
 
jamieb said:
The support guys at iBurst need a change of tune. They refuse to admit that their system is borderline unuseable. According to them, we are all delusionary.
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Luis asked me to email him a bunch of things, which I did 1 hour 11 minutes later @ 2005-01-04T02:00, which means that Luis was diligently trying to sort out problems at 2005-01-04T12:09 (am). Any other clones of Luis working all hours like that?

The first step on the transformation path from Burst-i to iBurst - recognition @ the wookie level that there is a serious and widespread problem.

What is the latest word from the Wookies & Jedis @ WBS? (that's if you are still calling the helpdesk out of sheer desperation)

If you are looking for a workaround, try the Burst-i strategy (in my siggy), it would also be interesting to know if that doesn't work at all in some cases (i.e. possibly a different problem altogether).

Another thing, if you haven't joined the MyADSL QoS testing initiative- my UTD's test results clearly show when there is a stuttering/unresponsiveness problem, and I hope that the raw data collected by the test app will be even more revealing. Moral of the story, if you haven't already done so, download the app & run it- at the very least you will be able to show the Jedis graphically that there is a problem.
 
my "speed" is atrocious at the moment... one of my tests came back with ELEVEN KBits/s!!! :(

I emailed Luis as well, and he just replied saying that I must phone someone on MOnday morning and tell her exactly where I connect from... okay :confused:
 
kuberkoos' latency stats - last 24h

- graphs plot latency vs. time
- coloured line shows the MEDIAN during each interval
- colour itself shows packet loss green(excellent) through red (dismal)
- "smoke" shows range of measured latency during interval

kuberkoos - basically monitors my connection

iBurst PPP peer - first hop - maybe tower? or some iburst device

www.wbs.co.za - iburst/wbs local website

UUNET/MCI.com - big .com ISP

hellkom/SAIX - big local IX

is.co.za - big local ISP

chz,
kk
 
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measuring iburst latency

if you're interested i can add some iburst users onto my latency graphing system (i use smokeping)

all you need to do is
- be prepared to keep your machine running
- configure your firewall to allow me to ping you (simple echo requests)
- register with a dynamic dns provider (there's some quality free ones available)
- install a suitable dynamic dns client to keep your DNS name/IP in sync
- lemme know what your dynamic DNS name is

it'll generate about 315kB (kilobytes) (a third of a MEG) per DAY - if you're concerned about bandwidth. that's 30bps!!! (bits per second) a drop in the iBurst bandwith ocean.... :D

chz,
kk
 
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KuberKoos thanks for stats very interesting seems consistently about 100ms greater than my isdn connection. I am looking to get iburst but do a lot of voip so am worried about the latency issues. How close are you to a tower and what signal strength are you getting?
 
Daveogg said:
How close are you to a tower and what signal strength are you getting?
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i'm in midrand so i guess i'll be on the tower thats just north of vorna valley (in the vodaworld area).

i'm getting between 3 and 5 lights - i'd say 4 or 5 80% of the time. used to get 5 solidly before i upgraded firmware, but newer firmware probably gives a truer, more real time indication.

would be nice if i can the signal strength so i could plot that as well, but i'm using pppOE on linux. does the windows driver allow you to monitor signal in driver properties.

chz,
kk

PS: had minor flooding last night. had to go off air. will post graphs again as soon as i've collected enough and from there on i'll try to post semi regularly and definately when there's iburts problems.
 
kuberkoos said:
does the windows driver allow you to monitor signal in driver properties.
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The Windoze iBurst systray app only displays Signal Strength & FER (Frame Error Rate), no logging AFAIK, and definitely only when you have your UTD attached via USB, assume same with UTC PCMCIA.

Perhaps logging of FER & Signal Strength fluctuations should be a feature we request to have added to the systray app.

It would be better for WBS' Wookies & Jedis, as well as us UTD customers, if the systray app could be made to work with UTD attached via rj45 ethernet.

Related threads:
[thread=16363]UTD(esktop): USB vs Ethernet cable[/thread]
[thread=16443]Sihen: technical UTD question...?[/thread]
 
Looking good this am

Just so that there is a record of things not always being stuttered/unresponsive, this morning my iBurst seems to be running the way it should, but I have probably jinxed it now.

Also, I've been connected for 1 day 9 hours 40 minutes, which is a major improvement bcos I normally get disconnected all the time.
 
i'm also looking better than over the weekend. maybe it was the weather...
 
'xactly whats happened to me now!

before i left for work all was fine and now i can't get to it from work. had a look at latency between you (ic) and me (kuberkoos) and it looked WAY better than the weekend.

will post a graph as soon as dyndns has caught up or connection reestablishes.

chz,
kk
 
NO! just... smile... nod... and enjoy it!

the walls have eyes and ears... don't you KNOW!

*looks around frantically, wide-eyed...* :eek:
 
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