New Tower Active: Honey Hills

[Donovan]

Hi guys,

For those of us that live in Roodepoort - Horizon, most parts of Strubensvalley, Honey Hills, Constantia Kloof, and surrounding areas, we've finally got a tower that properly covers our hilly terrain. It's on top of the Horizon Towers (Snipe Street), and it was turned on this morning at about 10:00. It's base station number is 50.

I'm on a 128kbps package, and for the past 3 weeks I have generally been getting speeds of 12 to 15KB/s on first the old tower and now the new one. So they fixed my speeds, and as a bonus I now have strong enough signal that I don't get disconnected when the wind blows ... at last!

The only thing they need to now do is refund me for two months, and I will actually class myself as *gasp* a satisfied customer. It doesn't erase what happened, but if things are fine and I am compensated for the bad months then there is no problem.

Anyone else connecting to this tower?

 

[Donovan]

PS for gamers and stuff; check the pings (both sets taken while downloading a torrent at around 8KB/s)

LOCAL
ping 66.18.65.124
PING 66.18.65.124 (66.18.65.124): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 66.18.65.124: icmp_seq=0 ttl=249 time=89.458 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.124: icmp_seq=1 ttl=249 time=470.31 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.124: icmp_seq=2 ttl=249 time=108.49 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.124: icmp_seq=3 ttl=249 time=88.185 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.124: icmp_seq=4 ttl=249 time=87.712 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.124: icmp_seq=5 ttl=249 time=107.05 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.124: icmp_seq=6 ttl=249 time=87.926 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.124: icmp_seq=7 ttl=249 time=87.979 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.124: icmp_seq=8 ttl=249 time=87.616 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.124: icmp_seq=9 ttl=249 time=106.044 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.124: icmp_seq=10 ttl=249 time=106.706 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.124: icmp_seq=11 ttl=249 time=126.493 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.124: icmp_seq=12 ttl=249 time=564.863 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.124: icmp_seq=13 ttl=249 time=106.415 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.124: icmp_seq=14 ttl=249 time=126.212 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.124: icmp_seq=15 ttl=249 time=567.683 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.124: icmp_seq=16 ttl=249 time=124.8 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.124: icmp_seq=17 ttl=249 time=104.534 ms

--- 66.18.65.124 ping statistics ---
18 packets transmitted, 18 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 87.616/174.915/567.683 ms


INTERNATIONAL

Donovan-John-Cairneys-Computer:~ Donovan$ ping 216.109.118.75
PING 216.109.118.75 (216.109.118.75): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 216.109.118.75: icmp_seq=0 ttl=49 time=1126.95 ms
64 bytes from 216.109.118.75: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=1208.28 ms
64 bytes from 216.109.118.75: icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=1322.61 ms
64 bytes from 216.109.118.75: icmp_seq=3 ttl=49 time=1028.33 ms
64 bytes from 216.109.118.75: icmp_seq=4 ttl=49 time=1027.57 ms
64 bytes from 216.109.118.75: icmp_seq=6 ttl=49 time=1507.16 ms
64 bytes from 216.109.118.75: icmp_seq=7 ttl=49 time=1225.1 ms
64 bytes from 216.109.118.75: icmp_seq=8 ttl=49 time=1334.13 ms
64 bytes from 216.109.118.75: icmp_seq=9 ttl=49 time=1506.24 ms
64 bytes from 216.109.118.75: icmp_seq=10 ttl=49 time=1026.68 ms
64 bytes from 216.109.118.75: icmp_seq=11 ttl=49 time=1127.15 ms
64 bytes from 216.109.118.75: icmp_seq=13 ttl=49 time=1405.53 ms
64 bytes from 216.109.118.75: icmp_seq=14 ttl=49 time=1126.04 ms
64 bytes from 216.109.118.75: icmp_seq=16 ttl=49 time=1104.13 ms
64 bytes from 216.109.118.75: icmp_seq=17 ttl=49 time=1585.29 ms
64 bytes from 216.109.118.75: icmp_seq=18 ttl=49 time=1323.42 ms
--- 216.109.118.75 ping statistics ---
20 packets transmitted, 16 packets received, 20% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 1026.68/1249.04/1585.29 ms

Local = OK, international = !BAD!
Keep in mind this was conducted while downloading torrents... so that possibly affected the readings.

 

[nocilah]

what speeds do you get internationally?


myWireless 128, 64, 48, 16 - depends on its mood.

 

[Donovan]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by vowthorn</i>
<br />what speeds do you get internationally?


myWireless 128, 64, 48, 16 - depends on its mood.
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It depends. The torrents I mentioned are international. Local is very quick (14 to 16KB/s), international seems spikey. Probably levels out around 9.5KB/s.