NodeB Upgrades - Update!

[Robone]

Hey ARF9999..........I see you are winning so far[]

And off the same tower.

I wonder if I will get a higher reading if I disconnect????

 

[arf9999]

Hey Robone,
I couldn't reply yesterday 'cos I couldn't browse anymore. (maybe my packetloss reached 100%?)

Definitely they have fscked up the tower. Last week I had 'reasonable' speed with less than 5% packetloss. On Saturday my speed dropped, and packet loss went up to about 10%. On Sunday (after the router change) and Monday speeds were SH*T, packet loss at 20-30%. And Tuesday the trend continued...50% loss. Wednesday "update of firmware" = 80% packetloss.

Short of being completely disconnected....how much worse could this get?

-A

 

[pmik]

I was getting about 50% packet loss last night, and the speed was so bad that I eventually shut down my PC in disgust [xx(] and watched TV instead. Speed and packet loss seems a bit better this morning tho' but still not great.

I'm on tower 126 [Fourways]. Does anyone know if the firmware has been updated on this tower?

 

[Kai]

it was REALLY bad last night... horribly slow! couldn't even download a 44 Meg file on p2p

<hr noshade size="1"><font size="1"><i><div align="right"><font color="red">i haven't lost my mind, it's backed up on disk somewhere...</font id="red">
tower82.randparkridge.jhb|13-21% signal|256k package, running at 0.3 - 3k/s </div id="right"></i></font id="size1">

 

[dbnnet]

* Update *
No NodeB's were upgraded this morning (Thursday).
This has apparently been postponed. Reason Unknown!


<font size="1"><font color="black">Bay of Plenty :</font id="black"><font color="blue"> Signal 48% - SNL 17 - ber 71% :</font id="blue"><font color="green"> D-Link DI-604 - PPPoE :</font id="green"><font color="orange"> 8dBi Patch Antenna :</font id="orange"> Firmware 4.2.1.8</font id="size1">

 

[arf9999]

Reason: complete f@#$ing incompetence.

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

 

[Brolloks]

I saw an interesting thing on the dl graph from last night. At exactly 6:30am this morning my dl limit hit almost 3kB/s. It was up and down as usual through the night and managed to dl around 30MB since 7pm last night with the usual spiky speed reaching anything from 0 - 10kB/s, but since 6:30am the spikes hit 3kB/s then flattens for a few seconds, drops to 0 for a while then spike to 3kB/s with a flat top. Looks like a block somewhere to me.

Will check again little later.

 

[Headend]

Yesterday late afternoon and early this morning I also had real c@%$py speed. Phoned and moaned. About an hour later I lost all signal for ± 5 minutes. Once signal came back, usable speeds returned (not great, but OK). I guess the tower needed a reboot.

Headend
Tower: Mintek (82 was 12) - Signal: 19% - Firmware: 4.2.1.8 - 128k - Smoothwall and PPPoE

 

[arf9999]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Brolloks</i>
<br />It was up and down as usual through the night and managed to dl around 30MB since 7pm last night
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What? you should be able to dl 30MB in less than an hour![:0]

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

 

[Turtle]

Interesting, I also saw a 3kB "flat" maximum d/l rate last night, on eMule, but not on Gnutella2 (Shareaza). Both use different protocols, the latter uses http these days ... hmm ... *edit* ... right now, I can't seem to get any p2p to work at all ... won't even connect. Is this the new "bandwidth management" system? I wonder if they're planning on blocking p2p outright ... p2p is probably what Winston Smith refers to when he says "some customers aren't using MW for its 'intended purpose'", so I wouldn't put it past them, that would be right in line with the general attitude of Sentech management .. "We'll sell you a "high-speed" "broadband" connection, just don't use it to download anything significant or do anything that you would normally do on a real broadband line, 'cos that would mean we'd have to buy BW etc" ..

*edit2* .. even google is inaccessible right now, so I guess it's just all international down (again) ..

 

[Brolloks]

arf9999 .. that's not even funny
I downloaded that Carte Blanche clip in less than an hour ... 33MB

 

[arf9999]

Brolloks,
On P2p last week I was getting more than 50MB in an hour. Now 10 if I'm lucky.

I'm not trying to be funny...On a 128 package we should AVERAGE more than 12KB/s.



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