Northcliff

[guest2013-1]

Northcliff has just been installed with the new firmware apparently. And this is what they've been waiting for.

So, those on Northcliff, what are your speeds like? I know the "restart" is only recent, but I feel it's much more nippier. 300k international single threaded and 1024k single threaded local.

anyone else?

 

[guest2013-1]

oh, and packet loss appears to be a lot less, but thats because some people probably havent reconnected yet?

 

[KrazyKid]

Noone; I noticed that I lost signal on Northcliff. Please tell me how are you measuring your Boardband speed?

 

[guest2013-1]

www.mybroadband.co.za

Click on Speed Tests... run them all

 

[guest2013-1]

I've noticed that single threaded international downloads averages almost an exact 1/4 of the 1024kbps this is capable of

 

[KrazyKid]

Northcliff Speeds

I have just done a speed test on Telkom Web Site;

Your line speed is approximately 305.4 Kbps or 37.4 kBytes/sec

I don't see that much difference. Maybe it it my setting MTU ...etc
Using iBurst off a wireless router.

Will test the ASDLguide later, getting error testing busy?

Cheers

 

[KrazyKid]

More speed .... less haste!

Well I don't know ... personally I think this is bad!
here is speed results from ASDLguide.org.uk

Downstream 101 Kbps (12.6 KB/sec) 109 Kbps (inc. overheads)
Upstream 62 Kbps (7.8 KB/sec) 66 Kbps (inc. overheads)

Has anybody got sugestions on tweaking you settings?

KrazyKid
(resulted from boardband usage)

 

[slimothy]

make your firefox multithread, iBurst hardly ever maxes out with a signle download thread, so if you want to take advantage of it make sure almost every app you use to suck data off the internet has multithreading capabilities and you know how to use em.

 

[Crash]

My Results from Northcliff Tower

Your line speed is approximately 340.5 Kbps or 41.7 kBytes/sec

It's faster now and the connections are more stable. No packet loss, and the Latency is a lot more stable.

 

[kmclellan]

My results for Northcliff

I got 900kbps thjis morning and was downloading mysql from new york at 102Kb/s. Big improvement.

Thanx

 

[native]

I got 900kbps thjis morning and was downloading mysql from new york at 102Kb/s. Big improvement.

I'm moving to Northcliff

 

[slimothy]

102 seems awesome till you're used to 130

 

[KrazyKid]

Tweaking my Link

Hi all,
Could somebody, anybody ... give me some suggestions, guidness to what MTU and RWIN settings I should use on the Northcliff Tower

My iBurst has dyslexia; uploads are higher than downloads.


KrazyKid

 

[ic]

KrazyKid, my advice to any & all is to set MTU to 1352 and perhaps enable MTU Path Discovery if it is disabled, don't even bother trying to calculate RWIN unless you have stable latency to a host that you frequently donload stuff from (if relevant).

Disclaimer: This advice expires when the WBS iBurst network stabilises, at which time it will be worthwhile trying to tweak TCP/IP settings.

 

[slimothy]

if changing your mtu fixes your dislexic iBurst I will chew off my left nut

 

[ic]

That's exactly my point - just set MTU to 1352 which is hopefully the lowest that WBS will decide to go. What does this accomplish? - it stops Helpdesk in their tracks when they ask what's your MTU.... Until the network itself is stable there is little point in messing with MTU. BTW stable also meaning reliable in this context, and over a decent period of time, say 3 weeks or so.