New 256K speed development

[Wireless2]

Since this afternoon I can download at 16KB/s with multi threads from most LOCAL sites

Internatinal is still at 2.5KB/s, but Local was aswell till this afternoon,

International does seem slightly faster on Single Thread than multithread

 

[chuckl]

I am ama heppi for you, my experience is not similar. I cannot access international mailboxes or anything resembling what I would call reasonable service. If anyone thinks this is an 'improved' service, I would hate to think what they think is 'acceptable' service. it can only exist in the minds of marketroids?

If we don't take care of the customers, maybe they'll stop bugging us.

 

[bHOLDher]

Im gonna regret saying this (since things change after I press post), but

WHAT THE?1?!?!

SRT running at 14.48kB/s 3 out of 4 tests on 128? This cannot be right.

Local browsing is pretty frikkin fast (relatively speaking)

Pings are looking good.

ST Speed Test could be better at 11.83 KBps.

OK, Sentech: Right-click, "Apply to all Users". And remember to click "Save"!!! Very important.

Intl is very slow, as is P2P. This forum takes ages to load. Unlike yesterday and the weekend.

This is obviously still on the todo list.

Please don't tell me I am the only person online now, please.

 

[bHOLDher]

Oh, and dear ST Support, the hurrican winds outside are not even blowing away one packet at the moment.

 

[Wireless2]

128K just wait till day 3 of " upgrades

On 256K it was

Day 0 = 29KB/s
Day 1 = 16KB/s
Day 2 = 5KB/s
Day 3 = 2.5KB/s and has stayed there for international eversince

I go on dialup at night now and its 10 times faster at least

 

[dorris]

WTF is all I can say, notice the difference in the 2 figures below, take a guess which ones local!!!
1
http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/amsn/amsn-0.90-1.mdk9x.rpm
=> `amsn-0.90-1.mdk9x.rpm'
Connecting to 192.168.0.1:80... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2,039,271 [application/x-redhat-package-manager]

9% [===&gt; ] 203,840 <b> 14.56K/s </b> ETA 02:02

2
http://ovh.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/amsn/amsn-0.90-1.mdk9x.rpm
=&gt; `amsn-0.90-1.mdk9x.rpm.1'
Connecting to 192.168.0.1:80... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2,039,271 [application/x-redhat-package-manager]

3% [&gt; ] 65,406 <b> 1.22K/s </b> ETA 27:09
______________________________________________________________________________

Now, it surprised me enough to see a difference between local and international, but the biggest surprise, was this, NONE OF THOSE WERE LOCAL, 1 is a US source, and 2 is a EU source, both attempts done within 2 minutes of each other (actually 2 was first, and after it stalled, I tried mirror 1, a breath of fresh air)

BIG UPS TO YOU SENTECH, this is the first sign I´ve seen indicating they finding a solution!

 

[loosecannon]

nope they just shifting the problem arround there is no solution until it is solved.

i am not prepared to accept a download of 500b/s nor am i going to accept waiting 5 minutes for this forum to open to bitch about it i have officialy reserved my right to cancel at any point ...

 

[bHOLDher]

According to PATHPING, seems as if a line or two between IS and Paris is having issues. The line from IS to NY is happier, hence the difference in speed.

SIGH.

Problem: my SRT is still good, but I have to go sleep, do I go sleep and wake up to never see the SRT this good again?

SIGH, yes.

 

[Bishop]

Last night I was running streaming video at 12KB while HTTP traffic was crawling along at 1KB. Both international on my 256 package.

The web site containing the link to the stream was timing out it was that slow, but once I managed to get it open ( after a lot of refreshes and walking to the kitchen and back ) it streamed along at full speed.

In the interest of science I tried to run two streams at the same time and managed to get my BW monitor up to 18KB. Both streams were stuttering, but still... 18KB! I haven't seen speeds like that in weeks!

I tried multiple streams and single streams, but normal web traffic / downloading seems capped at 2KB Internationaly. Torrents are capped at 500b/s. Local seems to go to about 15KB for downloading and browsing is fast.

What sort of weird bandwidth management is that? So I left the video stream running all night and this morning it was still going fine, not a single disconnect or reset. I managed to download about 400MB of video in 6 hours, which is not too bad.

Now all I need to do is to figure out how to download torrents through windows media player and I am set.

Cowtenna | 12% Signal | Tower 82 ( Mintek ) | 256K

 

[arf9999]

Bishop,

19KB/s on 256 package is ok, but still not what it should be....You should be getting 25KB/s or more with no other streams active.

Before the "upgrades" I was able to get 14KB/s on multithreads and streaming on international sites on a 128K package...so I think there is still lots of room for improvement. (It now seems that international is capped at around 6KB/s for us 128ers, and P2P is capped at 1.5K)



MW128, Tower <b>60</b>(Northpark Plaza), Signal:16%,S-N-L: 7, BER: 45%

 

[Bishop]

Oh, I agree with you. Before the upgrade I was running downloads at 32KB ( the max ) internationally with multiple connections.

It was just that seeing 18KB after enduring sub 2KB speeds for a week blew me away.

Cowtenna | 12% Signal | Tower 82 ( Mintek ) | 256K

 

[Jhbgirl]

After having no speeds for a week they are hoping 18KB's will blow us away.

: 256k : 110 Helderkruin JHB : 10% :

 

[aborg]

18 KB/s not good enough because I had much better - I am seeing a lot of 'swear' words popping up all over the forum in the form of capping,shaping,limiting etc. is this turning into adsl in wireless format??? Sentech should let us know if they are doing this - they obviously won't - because it goes straight against the grain of marketing unlimited 'broadband' at your fingertips. Sentech should watch out that 9/11 doesn't repeat itself.

 

[dorris]

don't believe all the rumours, they have never mentioned shaping, if p2p is bad, thats just coz sentech sux, users are calling it shaping when they don't get the bandwidth they expect on p2p (just for a little info, depending on your config, some p2p's can use 2-3K just keeping track of available sources) , they have also never mentioned capping per month, but it has been said that a consistent network abuser would get a few warnings and then bounced up a package, or asked to leave the network, this is a standard practice that many intl providers will reserve the rights to enforce,
Out of interest, has anybody on this site been sent an E-mail about "Abusing bandwidth" ?

 

[gripen]

I think that theres no doubt we are being capped albeit temporarily. I have proof of this. My traffic graph is currently flatlining at 8KB/sec. Like I said, hopefully its temporary only. An 8KB/sec hard cap is a lot easier to deal with than the 2.5KB/sec cap of last night. I feel that the shaping-like effects are purely how RBM handles P2P. I have noticed times where P2P is good and when it sucks. This is largely directly related to the times where the service works beautifully (which we all remember) and when it works just OK. It may in effect be random shaping due to RBM. However, BT seems to be able to avoid the shaping effect a lot better than other P2P.

**Patented <b>20kbps</b> carrier pigeon clipped wing technology**

 

[Kai]

i'm also stuck on 8KB/s - which is a HUGE improvement for me... doing a bit more testing though... to see if it's constant...

eventhough it's an improvement, it's not good enough yet... R860 for 8KB/s is a ripoff!

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[gripen]

its pretty constant yes (why we call it a HARD cap). in fact.. we have been dumped down to 5KB/sec again.

**Patented <b>64kbps</b> carrier pigeon clipped wing technology**