Local Bandwidth also going down the drain

[jacauc]

Is anyone else experiencing this?

I have MW 256 and international downloads stay on around 8Kb/safter the 500Kb/s burst at full speeds.

(which we are all "used" to by now)

I use rmDC or DC++ to do local downloads which was working fine for about 2 months now at full speeds coz its local bandwidth....

In the past week or so my LOCAL speeds have dropped to about 5KB/s....

anyone having the same thing?


Shot.

 

[jacauc]

nothing wrong with uploads though

 

[MaD]

I have MW 256 and international downloads stay on around 8Kb/safter the 500Kb/s burst at full speeds.

If my provider did that I would drop them instantly.

 

[dbnnet]

On the 128K package, Im getting as follows:-
Local: 14.5kB/s
International: 6.5kB/s (after 500k)

 

[nocilah]

dbnet how come u are getting 6.5KB/s Mine and everyone else seems to be at 4.7 or 5.7kb

giimme sum of wot u got.

 

[Luke7777]

He's in Durbs.
ProAsm is in Durbs.

 

[dbnnet]

vowthorn, I was getting 4.7kB/s until this past Friday, but then it shot up to 9kB/s.
On Saturday it was down to 6.5kB/s where it has settled.
I know that ProAsm did install a direct feed for Durban, and maybe that is the reason???
I will try and get some clarity on this.

Edit/ Confirmed: DBN 6.5kB/s and JHB 4.7kB/s - No one knows why though.
(But with all my questioning, they will probably drop it down again )

Also... I've established that the above International limit is based on
a period of time (20 seconds to be exact), and not when you reach 500k.

 

[noswal]

FWIW I just tried starting a couple of download and they didnt have the initial high burst but are happily meandering around 5kBs

 

[Scythe]

yep... my local used to fly about a week ago now it's crawling again same as intl!

 

[nonroker]

Hmmmm...I seem to be getting fast local speed still.....

48% [1 Packages 1580715/3244kB 48%] 28.5kB/s 58s

 

[nocilah]

local seems to come down at about 9.7KB/s for me

 

[Headend]

Local and International

My Local seems fine on 256 package. Here's a download from tucows.is using wget and forcing "no-cache"...

0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 3% 48.45 KB/s
50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 7% 27.35 KB/s
100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 10% 34.06 KB/s
150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 14% 28.57 KB/s
200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 17% 29.62 KB/s
250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 21% 27.82 KB/s
300K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 24% 30.49 KB/s
350K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 28% 36.36 KB/s
400K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 31% 28.31 KB/s
450K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 35% 28.84 KB/s
500K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 38% 26.01 KB/s
550K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 42% 29.62 KB/s
600K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 46% 27.82 KB/s
650K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 49% 29.36 KB/s
700K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 53% 33.00 KB/s
750K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 56% 32.64 KB/s
800K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 60% 29.10 KB/s
850K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 63% 26.01 KB/s
900K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 67% 24.06 KB/s
950K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 70% 34.39 KB/s
1000K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 74% 26.67 KB/s
1050K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 77% 31.39 KB/s
1100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 81% 28.31 KB/s
1150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 85% 34.79 KB/s
1200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 88% 28.31 KB/s
1250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 92% 28.57 KB/s
1300K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 95% 30.77 KB/s
1350K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99% 29.09 KB/s
1400K .......... 100% 34.77 KB/s

International still shows the 500k drop though
0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 4% 17.68 KB/s
50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 9% 30.18 KB/s
100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 13% 31.39 KB/s
150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 18% 30.47 KB/s
200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 22% 29.64 KB/s
250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 27% 31.06 KB/s
300K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 31% 31.08 KB/s
350K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 36% 31.06 KB/s
400K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 40% 29.64 KB/s
450K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 45% 31.37 KB/s
500K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 49% 24.06 KB/s
550K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 54% 9.85 KB/s
600K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 58% 7.92 KB/s
650K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 63% 7.82 KB/s
700K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 67% 8.06 KB/s
750K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 72% 8.08 KB/s
800K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 76% 7.82 KB/s
850K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 81% 7.67 KB/s
900K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 86% 4.30 KB/s
950K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 90% 4.21 KB/s
1000K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 95% 3.67 KB/s
1050K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99% 8.06 KB/s
1100K .... 100% 9.30 KB/s

 

[jacauc]

my local shot up again to normal since i sent an email to sentech complaining...
haven't had a reply yet.

Will have to see how long it lasts.

 

[JayT]

Local on the Blouberg (CT) tower seems capped.

256 Package

Im not downloading anything and the following 2 results are from the telkomsa.net adsl speed test

10am
Download time: 35.011 seconds
Size of file: 500KiloBytes
Estimated line speed: 116.5 (kilobits/sec)
Estimated line speed: 14.3 (KiloBytes/sec)

11am
Download time: 34.67 seconds
Size of file: 500KiloBytes
Estimated line speed: 117.7 (kilobits/sec)
Estimated line speed: 14.4 (KiloBytes/sec)

 

[JayT]

What a joke.

Results from the Sentech Speed test
http://www.sentech.co.za/speedtest/display_speed.php

Speed Test
Your download speed is: 11.29 KBps, or 90.28 Kbps
The test took 47.408 seconds to complete

 

[JayT]

Odd to see what some complaining to the right people can do

256 Package

International test (http://performance.toast.net)
Loaded 1,396,595 bytes in 53.157 seconds from 1&1 server.
Your throughput: 210* K


Sentech Speed Test 512K
Your download speed is: 26.82 KBps, or 214.55 Kbps
The test took 19.949 seconds to complete

Sentech Speed Test 2MB
Your download speed is: 26.79 KBps, or 214.28 Kbps
The test took 78.102 seconds to complete

It also seems that the international 500K throttle has now been increased to 1.6MB

 

[jacauc]

mine went up, then down again, then back to normal, then down again then it was perfect again for 2 days.... and now its completely disconnected.

I'm out of the country currently, so i can't see whats causing the disconnection this time round, but I have a linux server thats been running for almost a year now that keeps my connection up with a script that runs every minute and also updates DynDNS.

I literally NEVER have disconnections that doesn't reconnect automatically.
Except if sentech screws something up.
Guess i'll have to wait and see if the connection comes back up.

...and now i cant VNC into my PC anymore