I had a 384kbs uncapped installation on Friday - as expected working fine with the 0.4Mbs down and 0.2Mbs upload - this with the "test" account as it was quite late on Friday when they were finished. (Connecting in East Rand - Benoni area - tower is at Manny's, about 3km north east of JHB Intl Airport)
Connection was fine Saturday... as from Sunday data trickles in at 1/10th of the speed and pings are 1300ms+.
I did my *duty* (seems like I always have to contact Screamer and they never contact me?) and emailed Screamer accounts today to ask for a reference number to accompany my EFT..... no responce at all. So I will keep my money a bit longer.....
I partly decided on Screamer for the "telephone number" that is supposed to be allocated. The installer somehow thought I did not want or need a line and did not bother to give the Linksys phone gateway. I reminded him on Saturday and this morning that I need the number - this morning they were supposedly busy activating my account (still can't access my webmail account so I doubt that my account was activated at all)
Can anyone say if it is normal for a test account to dwindle away after some time.... or is it the network in general.
Is there any software/guides that can actually show me some info on the Wimax.... signal strength, signal loss, upload/download speed etc ??? Maybe a reset/re-connect function? I am petty blind as to any activity on the Wimax. (Going through Router so not using a "dial up connection" from my pc)
I also find it strange that all my internal PC's are assigned 10.0.0.x IP's? From the Wimax I go through a Option Globesurfer iii router (192.168.x.x) and the Globesurfer is supposed to be DHCP server and gateway. From there I go through 2 Belkins .... so its kinda weird to have my shares available on the whole 10.0.0.x range? I can see some other PC's / media servers on the network too... probably people in similar situation. Is this supposed to be normal?
Anyway....despite my remarks I am happy that I have Screamer working to some extend at least.
Connection was fine Saturday... as from Sunday data trickles in at 1/10th of the speed and pings are 1300ms+.
I did my *duty* (seems like I always have to contact Screamer and they never contact me?) and emailed Screamer accounts today to ask for a reference number to accompany my EFT..... no responce at all. So I will keep my money a bit longer.....
I partly decided on Screamer for the "telephone number" that is supposed to be allocated. The installer somehow thought I did not want or need a line and did not bother to give the Linksys phone gateway. I reminded him on Saturday and this morning that I need the number - this morning they were supposedly busy activating my account (still can't access my webmail account so I doubt that my account was activated at all)
Can anyone say if it is normal for a test account to dwindle away after some time.... or is it the network in general.
Is there any software/guides that can actually show me some info on the Wimax.... signal strength, signal loss, upload/download speed etc ??? Maybe a reset/re-connect function? I am petty blind as to any activity on the Wimax. (Going through Router so not using a "dial up connection" from my pc)
I also find it strange that all my internal PC's are assigned 10.0.0.x IP's? From the Wimax I go through a Option Globesurfer iii router (192.168.x.x) and the Globesurfer is supposed to be DHCP server and gateway. From there I go through 2 Belkins .... so its kinda weird to have my shares available on the whole 10.0.0.x range? I can see some other PC's / media servers on the network too... probably people in similar situation. Is this supposed to be normal?
Anyway....despite my remarks I am happy that I have Screamer working to some extend at least.