Is iBurst almost dead?

[Roman4604]

Looks like high utilisation ... got this on Kyalami ...

Download time: 4.625 seconds
Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
Estimated line speed: 882.2 (kilobits/second)
Estimated line speed: 108.1 (kiloBytes/second)

5 Min later ...

Download time: 19.891 seconds
Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
Estimated line speed: 205.1 (kilobits/second)
Estimated line speed: 25.1 (kiloBytes/second)

Throughput constantly yo-yoing.

I'd like to investigate this further, so can everyone on the Kyalami tower please disconnect now. My investigations shouldn't take longer than a few months ... your cooperation is appreciated.

 

[craigsa]

All of you get off my tower now please !!!!

 

[Unchained]

My investigations shouldn't take longer than a few months ... your cooperation is appreciated.

We're all investigating our respective towers

 

[SeanH]

The randburg tower must have blown up or something cause its like 28k now

 

[i-Guru]

You guys need to take the erlang effect into account (erlang = A unit of traffic intensity)
for instance: if hypothetically WBS only had 10 megs international bandwidth, and at an instance of time 100 people try to access it, then everybody would get 10/100 megs, but if an instance later only 10 people were accessing it, then everybody would get 10/10 = 1 meg

 

[RichardP]

Todays stats on Benoni Tower (16h36 .. Fri 13th)

Sentech
Your download speed is: 92.04 KBps, or 736.28 Kbps
The test took 5.813 seconds to complete

Telkom
Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:

Download time: 4.969 seconds
Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
Estimated line speed: 821.1 (kilobits/second)
Estimated line speed: 100.6 (kiloBytes/second)

 

[Sparky_za]

Also off the Benoni Tower (17:10)

Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:

Download time: 4.359 seconds
Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
Estimated line speed: 936 (kilobits/second)
Estimated line speed: 114.7 (kiloBytes/second)

 

[adsl3g]

WonderBoom South tower (19h00)
Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:

* Download time: 10.875 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 375.2 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 46 (kiloBytes/second)

Good thing I cancelled as at the end of this month!!

 

[LandyMan]

iBurst is not dead:

Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:

* Download time: 2.687 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 1518.4 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 186.1 (kiloBytes/second)

 

[bb_matt]

iburst was DOA.

 

[ant1matter]

I get over 700 all the time :/

 

[LCE]

iBurst is not dead:

Well then the Kempton Park Tower is dead or faulty!

 

[nocilah]

seems better on weekends:
Your line speed is approximately 916.2 Kbps or 112.3 kBytes/sec
( Where kb = kilobits and kB = kiloBytes )

 

[LandyMan]

iburst was DOA.

Shouldn't that rather be DAB?

 

[LCE]

Look at my Kempton Park Tower results today

Telkom Test
Your line speed is approximately 94.9 Kbps or 11.6 kBytes/sec

GamCo Test
Your current bandwidth reading is: 112.70kbps
which means you can download at 14.09 KB/sec. from our servers.

SenTech Test
Your download speed is: 9.98 KBps, or 79.84 Kbps


I am going to buy a 56K Modem now.

 

[nocilah]

Look at my Kempton Park Tower results today

Telkom Test
Your line speed is approximately 94.9 Kbps or 11.6 kBytes/sec

GamCo Test
Your current bandwidth reading is: 112.70kbps
which means you can download at 14.09 KB/sec. from our servers.

SenTech Test
Your download speed is: 9.98 KBps, or 79.84 Kbps


I am going to buy a 56K Modem now.

terrible results... complain... phone and complain.

 

[LCE]

As I said before. Everthing did work 100% and the problems only started lately....... I need a better antenna now that is five meters in the air. Bla bla bla

To phone take hours because they try to find the fault on my side but there is nothing wrong.

How to train a WBS support desk staff member. Client: I have a problem. Staff: It must be your MTU settings. (This response will fix the problem every time - Yeah right!!!!)

 

[nocilah]

dunno LCE...

some suggestion you can try:

use the usb software that comes with the modem... dowload a 2Mb file and cheack out your frame error rate... it should stay under 7%

take a drive around your neighborhood and see if anything new is being built. believe it or not that can sometimes be the problem

phone helpdesk and insist a techie looks at your base station.

unplug modem for a while (2 minutes) and plug it in again

If this problems persist ask to speak to the helpdesk manager or even a technical guy. sometimes that will sort out the problem.

Hope you come right.