LC Tests - the big day

loosecannon · Aug 31, 2004

preliminary multithread from www.kernel.org ...

linux-2.6.8.1.tar.bz2
patch-2.6.9.bz2

that really warmed the modem up a whoping

Current In:
4662.0 B/s (28.5%)

my peak was wait for it ...
Max In:
6306.0 B/s (38.5%)

The figures that intrest me the most ... these i want to see in the 75%+

Average max 5 min values for `Daily' Graph (5 Minute interval): In: 2612.0 B/s (15.9%)/ Out: 1092.0 B/s (6.7%)

i plan on using this tread as a place for recording simplfied information regarding the fantastic "big fix" and a place to show my grand children what a great company sentech was

gripen · Aug 31, 2004

I have noticed that http://www.download.windowsupdate.com (67.29.170.61) is an exclusion on the international cap. This makes sense - I doubt that there is a local mirror.

see for yourself:
wget http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/msjavwu_8073687b82d41db93f4c2a04af2b34d.exe

<post your results of this particular file please>

downloading that file + an international torrent I got FULL speed as in maxed out 15.5 and above. Which is nice - I was capped by my package. A sign of things to come? Doubtful. Just a loophole to utilise some of the idle international bandwidth.

LC, those speeds seem to be hitting the cap. I have also noticed that one international thread can consistently sit at 5KB/sec (current cap). See "proof".

<center>**Official Sentech MyWireless 56kbps customer using patented carrier pigeon clipped wing technology** proof </center>

Luke7777 · Aug 31, 2004

Greedy, run the same file with cache off (wget -C off...). Should be seeing the normal 4Kb

128K|21%|13SNL|36 Menlopark 2530

loosecannon · Aug 31, 2004

yeah part of what ive been led to belive is this cap is disapearing so lets see what happens ...

im getting pathetic results on this file maybe pretoria is "fixed"

malec · Aug 31, 2004

like this

Resolving www.download.windowsupdate.com... done.
Connecting to www.download.windowsupdate.com[64.4.20.61]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 5,319,000 [application/octet-stream]

2% [> ] 147,194 4.75K/s ETA 17:42

loosecannon · Aug 31, 2004

hey how you cut and paste from my console ...

well still 20 minutes before the fun realy starts and sentech starts er carries on having to lie to us ...

gripen · Aug 31, 2004

the file seems to be cleared from the cache now. I cant get the same speed again. Ok but its confusing since Im running a TP on my gateway as well..

with that switch does it force the remote TP to re-get the file? surely not..

OR they are reading here.. yeah thats perhaps pushing it a bit.

was probably cached. anyways cant wait for cap to fck off. so much free bandwidth waiting to be used.

Guys I bet it WONT be at midnight

<center>**Official Sentech MyWireless 56kbps customer using patented carrier pigeon clipped wing technology** proof </center>

loosecannon · Aug 31, 2004

if you set the -C [correct me if im wrong] it puts pragma-no-cache in the request header and the TP will ignore it [RFC compliance] and therefore allow you to get a clean version

Luke7777 · Aug 31, 2004

-C, --cache=on/off (dis)allow server-cached data (normally allowed)

128K|21%|13SNL|36 Menlopark 2530

malec · Aug 31, 2004

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> so much free bandwidth waiting to be used.
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

You're joking, right?

gripen · Aug 31, 2004

well now wget is connecting to 196.33.166.202 to get the above file. Still sh*t slow. This differs from the 67.x and 64.x ranges above. Funky.

<center>**Official Sentech MyWireless 56kbps customer using patented carrier pigeon clipped wing technology** proof </center>

loosecannon · Aug 31, 2004

sentech to sentech transfer

23:51:35 (6.18 KB/s) - `mplayerc.exe' saved [1340416/1340416]

Luke7777 · Aug 31, 2004

tracert to it ....must be internal
<snip>
11 89 ms 169 ms 89 ms a196-33-166-202.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [196.33.166.202]

128K|21%|13SNL|36 Menlopark 2530

gripen · Aug 31, 2004

malec what i meant is that they are capping the ppl downloading so tightly that the *normal* leftover BW is just sitting around. We are all hitting our 5Ks quite nicely. There must be some left to spare.

<center>**Official Sentech MyWireless 56kbps customer using patented carrier pigeon clipped wing technology** proof </center>

Perdition · Aug 31, 2004

I'm not a Sentech user (thankfully) but I can see this happening :

(Uninformed) User : "I'm only getting 4 KB/s on my downloads all the time, I'm going to cancel!"

Orc : "Sir, please try the speed test on our site."

User : "The test says 30KB/s."

Orc : "Well sir, we are providing you with the speeds stated in the package and have no control over the rest of the internet."

User : "Oh ok" *click*

loosecannon · Aug 31, 2004

--- www.sentech.co.za ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 524.8/727.2/1105.6 ms

packet size 1428 ...

this is what i like ...

regardtv · Aug 31, 2004

remember that windowsupdate is multihomed via akamai - that's why the IP's are all over the place ... not to mention that round-robin dns also comes into play

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Will they make the 128/512K deadline ... hope so for their sake
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malec · Aug 31, 2004

greedy, they only bandwidth left is used up by winston smith browsing www.spur.co.za at full speed china

loosecannon · Sep 1, 2004

i bitch like a banshee when i dont get 128kbs on there speed test ...as that is in the core network and should not be part of the "contention ratio"

just called the support desk they will be updating me on current status ... also noticed a glitch almost spot on 12 ...

lets see what happens ...

regardtv · Sep 1, 2004

loosecannon ... just a quick one ... mind sending a few ping packets to www.bbc.co.uk ...

My latency to that site has sky rocketed but need some testing doine ;-)

The fix is great .. except it doesn't seem to be implemented yet ;-)

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Will they make the 128/512K deadline ... hope so for their sake
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