iBurst very slow

BucK said:
What tower are you connecting to? I'm connecting to the midrand tower. Anyone else on the midrand tower?
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I am. I connect from 2 places in Midrand (work and home), and I have noticed a serious difference between speeds, dependent upon signal strength. I get excellent speeds from work, where I have line of sight. Connecting from home gives me 2 - 4 lights (the 5th led lights up every now and then just to tease me), but the speeds I get there are much less. I'll try get some stats to post (LSM didn't want to give me anything)..
 
BucK, how's your signal looking in Midrand? Mine still veerryyy slow (30-50kbps - MAX) , i'm waiting for Poynting to release their external antenna - they said it should be ready by the end of the month.

My cousin uses iBurst from his offices in Midrand, and tells me his speed is awfully quick!! His speed test measured a wopping 1080kbps! And it doesn't drop less that 900kbps.

Let you know when i get the antenna!
 
limnos said:
Let you know when I get the antenna!
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Also waiting. But in the meantime, you could try the parabolic reflector idea to boost your signal. So far has worked a treat. See FAWrIze's post in the "Antenna Solution" thread. There is also a link to the one I rigged up. A pait of scissors, a piece of stiff cardboard, a sheet of flexible cardboard, and some of the wife's tinfoil...
 
current situation

(maybe we should have a separate, perpetual (sticky?) thread going for people reporting their current connection status. mods?)

anyway.

anybody getting any international bandwidth at the moment? mine SUX!!!!

location: midrand
reception: 100% (solid)
latency: local is not too bad

anyone?

chz,
kk
 
Speed Wobbles

Not so hot yesterday evening or this morning.

----196.30.192.182 PING Statistics----
66 packets transmitted, 66 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 60/221/1030

Telkom http speed test:

* Download time: 29.054 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 140.4 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 17.2 (kiloBytes/second)
 
How much longer do we have to wait for iBurst to sort out the speed problem.
I'm using a UTC on my laptop. Signal 100%, but since last week Wednesday my speed is a whopping 10bites/sec. I was told by the helpdesk that it will be sorted out by today, but it seems that it is just getting worst by the day. I think iBurst must start to pay us users to use their system.

Very UNHAPPY client from Albertsville Johannesburg.
 
Midrand was useless last night. Tried to download Battlefront 1.2 patch (164MB) - still wasn't done this morning. Busy pulling it now from the office on the same terminal - 116kB/sec according to DU Meter.
 
I'm in the Highlands North Area, reception is like a biach fluctuates between 3 and 5 lights. but getting around 500k which isn't too bad, tried some ut2k4 online local servers and that was smooth all the way. now if only they can fix the connection prob I want to try online gaming on 1mb!!!
 
Ping ping ping
Ping ping ping
Will all passengers on flight iBurst please ping ad nauseum to keep your link going
Sheeeeez....enough already!
 
Ping Pong

----196.30.192.182 PING Statistics----
66 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

Perhaps related to the problem discussed at http://www.mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=17221

Telkom http speed test:

* Download time: 8.187 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 498.4 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 61.1 (kiloBytes/second)
 
It seems appropriate to resurrect this thread this weekend!

Internet solution site used in http://www.mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=17439&page=2&pp=15

----196.4.160.2 PING Statistics----
66 packets transmitted, 58 packets received, 12% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 60/120/260

Iburst web site:

----196.30.31.120 PING Statistics----
64 packets transmitted, 62 packets received, 3% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 60/110/280

Telkom speed test:

* Download time: 25.312 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 161.2 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 19.8 (kiloBytes/second)
 
telkom work schedule

some work was scheduled for today on the rosebank tower
rba-cache1.saix.net
maybe thats why its slow
 
Simple Twist Of Fate said:
some work was scheduled for today on the rosebank tower
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That might be the problem in my case but it seems to go further than the Rosebank tower, if you look at the support centre crit thread. In any event a mail from the helpdesk notifying all the users likely to be on that tower, as was done for the Sandton City tower reboot, would have been nice.
 
Telkom Speed Test

I am with TSOL in durban
i just done a speed test so i can compare to Iburst users

* Download time: 38.593 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 105.7 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 13 (kiloBytes/second)

ERHM yes my connection is supposed to be 64k NIGHT AND 32K DAY

it is wireless, and running a linux proxy with debian 3 on a celeron 433 and have 5 pcs connected to 3 hubs :)
 
Early the next morning

Add www.netcraft.com:

----195.92.95.5 PING Statistics----
64 packets transmitted, 50 packets received, 21% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 350/365/450

IS:

----196.4.160.2 PING Statistics----
66 packets transmitted, 64 packets received, 3% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 60/86/210

iBurst:

----196.30.31.120 PING Statistics----
66 packets transmitted, 66 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 50/73/140

Telkom http speed test:

* Download time: 17.656 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 231.1 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 28.3 (kiloBytes/second)
 
chris

Told you guys... it was this weekend and it was not just iburst.

My mates on 512k adsl and i was performing tasks about 5 times faster than him.

There must have been a bandwidth issue across the board over the weekend.

Maybe someone can tell us how sentech performed?

:confused:
 
That's what I thought, but probably just a reseller trying to offload all the UT's that he/she bought from WBS.
 
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