LoneGunman
Expert Member
Okay this is just a thought, but I notice the basic end result of the 'problems' at iBurst being experienced by different folks, tend to mean a slower speed is experienced by users.
If the overall common experience of users = 'slow speeds' regardless of the different reasons and symptoms put forward by the Helpdesk to explain it, and also - given that this (including the disconnections) has now been going on for four days? A week? without that same frantic and visible activity by Luis, when facing earlier problems..
Then what about the theory that this is not 'a problem' but signs of conscious bandwidth throttling by iBurst?
The Sentech users among us will recall the various 'problems' that Sentech had - but they werent actual 'problems' - what they were, was simply signs of a network struggling with deliberately insufficient bandwidth being spread through it. End result: slower speeds for users. But as long as it was perceived as 'just a problem' by users, there was no overall sense of the real picture - namely that Sentech had deliberately made this occur.
So maybe from here on, this being Monday morning - its time to look past the signs of 'a supposed problem' and consider the idea that if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and sounds like a duck - then its a duck.
ie: if some or most users are experiencing slow speeds, then perhaps this is exactly what iBurst want?
It could be useful for users to keep this idea in mind, when phoning the various techies and management people from today - because as long as we think and believe it is 'just a problem' - then we're not getting the overall big picture - that iBurst would appear to have deliberately throttled its available bandwidth.
And, like Sentech, they'll get away with it, until we all join the dots - and understand that this is perhaps a deliberate effect we're experiencing.
So - perhaps its actually not 'a problem' - but the end result of an iBurst decision viz the bandwidth..
I don't know. But if my speeds are now slower for the fourth day in a row, then rather than waste time complaining about a 'problem' as I was doing - I was losing sight of the ACTUAL reality as I'm experiencing it as an iBurst user - which is: 'iBurst seems to be throttling the bandwidth'
If the overall common experience of users = 'slow speeds' regardless of the different reasons and symptoms put forward by the Helpdesk to explain it, and also - given that this (including the disconnections) has now been going on for four days? A week? without that same frantic and visible activity by Luis, when facing earlier problems..
Then what about the theory that this is not 'a problem' but signs of conscious bandwidth throttling by iBurst?
The Sentech users among us will recall the various 'problems' that Sentech had - but they werent actual 'problems' - what they were, was simply signs of a network struggling with deliberately insufficient bandwidth being spread through it. End result: slower speeds for users. But as long as it was perceived as 'just a problem' by users, there was no overall sense of the real picture - namely that Sentech had deliberately made this occur.
So maybe from here on, this being Monday morning - its time to look past the signs of 'a supposed problem' and consider the idea that if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and sounds like a duck - then its a duck.
ie: if some or most users are experiencing slow speeds, then perhaps this is exactly what iBurst want?
It could be useful for users to keep this idea in mind, when phoning the various techies and management people from today - because as long as we think and believe it is 'just a problem' - then we're not getting the overall big picture - that iBurst would appear to have deliberately throttled its available bandwidth.
And, like Sentech, they'll get away with it, until we all join the dots - and understand that this is perhaps a deliberate effect we're experiencing.
So - perhaps its actually not 'a problem' - but the end result of an iBurst decision viz the bandwidth..
I don't know. But if my speeds are now slower for the fourth day in a row, then rather than waste time complaining about a 'problem' as I was doing - I was losing sight of the ACTUAL reality as I'm experiencing it as an iBurst user - which is: 'iBurst seems to be throttling the bandwidth'
