New user, very happy

[scart]

My iBurst account was activated on Friday and I must say that I am very pleased with the connection. I played Guild wars and City of Heroes on the American servers for about 12 hours over the weekend and the connection performed perfectly.

CoH's ingame latency graph showed a ping ranging between 480 and 530, which is about the same as what my old ADSL line gave. The iBurst graph was a bit more jagged than what ADSL showed, but the gameplay was very smooth.

One thing that made me very happy was that the connection stayed the same throughout the whole of Saturday. On my old ADSL line MMORPGs were unplayable between 12 and 2 on a Saturday afternoon due to packet errors.

I had to do a fresh Guild Wars install using just the Factions CDs. The average speed for the downloads was around 35KB/s and I saw a lot of activity around 75KB/s. I didn't do any PvP, but the PvE game worked well.

I'm about 1.2-1.5 kilometers from the new Garsfontein tower, and there are 3 or 4 houses blocking my LoS across a shallow valley. I don't use an antenna, and the modem is on the desk next to my PC, in front of a window facing the tower. iBurst's coverage map shows me as being in the extreme outdoor area, so I guess the map is almost useless.

 

[kingrob]

The best thing about iBurst is that you've got nothing Telkom in your house.

Welcome & enjoy!!

 

[JasonX]

Amen to that. That was the reason I got Iburst as well.

 

[Raithlin]

That's good to hear. I've downloaded America's Army, but was skittish about going online over the iBurst network. Guess I'll give it a try then.

Oh, and welcome.

 

[DagegeN]

My iBurst account was activated on Friday and I must say that I am very pleased with the connection. I played Guild wars and City of Heroes on the American servers for about 12 hours over the weekend and the connection performed perfectly.

CoH's ingame latency graph showed a ping ranging between 480 and 530, which is about the same as what my old ADSL line gave. The iBurst graph was a bit more jagged than what ADSL showed, but the gameplay was very smooth.

One thing that made me very happy was that the connection stayed the same throughout the whole of Saturday. On my old ADSL line MMORPGs were unplayable between 12 and 2 on a Saturday afternoon due to packet errors.

I had to do a fresh Guild Wars install using just the Factions CDs. The average speed for the downloads was around 35KB/s and I saw a lot of activity around 75KB/s. I didn't do any PvP, but the PvE game worked well.

I'm about 1.2-1.5 kilometers from the new Garsfontein tower, and there are 3 or 4 houses blocking my LoS across a shallow valley. I don't use an antenna, and the modem is on the desk next to my PC, in front of a window facing the tower. iBurst's coverage map shows me as being in the extreme outdoor area, so I guess the map is almost useless.

i give you a 2 months then you will join the bunch of guys thats not happy campers anymore

 

[LandyMan]

i give you a 2 months then you will join the bunch of guys thats not happy campers anymore

Not everyone has had a bad experience with iBurst ... I have been using it since March 2005, and I can't complain. The network does go down on occassion, but nothing that makes me unhappy with it. Still download at between 110KB/s and 120KB/s, so it works for me

 

[sabagamma]

On the whole I cannot really complain either. I have a decent tower and good signal so my speeds are reasonable. I can complain about the high price and small caps, but which broadband user in SA can't?

 

[Donovan]

Also a new user, moved from Sentech.

It's nice to have a connection that actually works AT ALL and international is up more than it is down.

 

[Tjorriemorrie]

welcome scart

you should get utStar working and post that strength here. you also have a good distance to the tower.

btw, if you got the same pings on adsl, then that adsl was bad. but it's still good for iburst. mines twice that

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

btw, if you got the same pings on adsl, then that adsl was bad. but it's still good for iburst. mines twice that

No, not for international gaming. Especially not on the IS network, then iBurst should beat it with a good connection.

But international gaming pings arent the best on ADSL, because of shaping mostly I believe.

And those pings arent *that* great for iBurst, ive seen better especially over a weekend. How do you get double that? Thats insane...

 

[Tjorriemorrie]

No, not for international gaming. Especially not on the IS network, then iBurst should beat it with a good connection.

But international gaming pings arent the best on ADSL, because of shaping mostly I believe.

And those pings arent *that* great for iBurst, ive seen better especially over a weekend. How do you get double that? Thats insane...

I'm serious. That's what i get. My avg ping (700pings) to google last week was 792. Insane and then some! Now you know why i hate the overloaded northcliff tower.

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

Oh right, Northcliff. lol.

Different story then I suppose. Seriously why dont you either post about it on Hellopeter.com (Ed Hall seems really interested in getting that public attention to look good) or just phone Ed or Shaun and really complain about the tower, they obviously need to put another one up. You might get them moving on it, and I read them saying somewhere that they are monitoring all areas to see if towers get too overloaded and they put new ones up to combat the load... which they haven't done in Northcliff for about a year and a half of complaining.