Official Crystal Web ADSL performance feedback thread Part 2...

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Was under the impression that the Home Capped was essentially the same as WebAfrica's offering.

The CW account is a helluva lot more strict on NNTP, just ran some tests now during business hours out of curiosity. Both tests using the exact same file, same news servers (Usenetbucket + IS news server):

My CW 90GB:

My WA 40GB:

 

[ghostR]

not really sarcastic, just wondering why a mod would throttle the thread
news related threads tend to be shaped when certain regions are involved ...

and warnings .... mmmm ....

but back to topic

seems something is very wrong with certain parts of this forum, as far as "leaders" go...

Back on topic, CW Streaming is amazing as always at the moment... Twitch issues seems to come and go, But it's never been right with any isp IMO

 

[ghostR]

Was under the impression that the Home Capped was essentially the same as WebAfrica's offering.

The CW account is a helluva lot more strict on NNTP, just ran some tests now during business hours out of curiosity. Both tests using the exact same file, same news servers (Usenetbucket + IS news server):

My CW 90GB:

My WA 40GB:

the WA account is 40 gigs home capped?

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

the WA account is 40 gigs home capped?

Yup. This one:

 

[ghostR]

Yup. This one:

Okay, Something is seriously wrong then and CW must investigate this, Which I'm sure they will when they see it.

 

[thewusman]

Was under the impression that the Home Capped was essentially the same as WebAfrica's offering.

The CW account is a helluva lot more strict on NNTP, just ran some tests now during business hours out of curiosity. Both tests using the exact same file, same news servers (Usenetbucket + IS news server):

My CW 90GB:

My WA 40GB:

Yeah. NNTP during the day is pretty much useless on CW standard capped. Full speed from 11:59pm...

Same for torrents and services like put.io that can be used for streaming http "torrent" storage.

Sucks I guess, but for streaming video and gaming the CW account is pretty great.

 

[OMB]

Gibbers Crabst, what the hell did I just read...

 

[slvR]

Was under the impression that the Home Capped was essentially the same as WebAfrica's offering.

The CW account is a helluva lot more strict on NNTP, just ran some tests now during business hours out of curiosity. Both tests using the exact same file, same news servers (Usenetbucket + IS news server):

My CW 90GB:

My WA 40GB:

Erm... This will be interesting.

 

[ghostR]

Erm... This will be interesting.

+1

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Erm... This will be interesting.

I'm already talking with CW and going to provide some comparative stats when I get a moment. Will see if they can maybe optimise things a bit.

 

[ghostR]

I'm already talking with CW and going to provide some comparative stats when I get a moment. Will see if they can maybe optimise things a bit.

From my knowledge when I spoke to DJ about changing to this Package from my uncapped premium, It is supposed to be identical, Literally to the Tee as WA Home capped.

 

[slvR]

From my knowledge when I spoke to DJ about changing to this Package from my uncapped premium, It is supposed to be identical, Literally to the Tee as WA Home capped.

Same. Supposed to be the same product.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Think there may just be something wrong with my account.

Even plain HTTP is only reaching like 4Mbps. WA account peaks at 40Mbps and has a few drops and spikes but pretty stable.

Here's a test to see how long to download around 10MB from a server in Germany.

CW:

[root@home tmp]# time wget [url]http://hetzner-de-12.ddns.net/files/ubuntu-14.04-desktop-i386.iso[/url]
--2015-05-06 16:56:40--  [url]http://hetzner-de-12.ddns.net/files/ubuntu-14.04-desktop-i386.iso[/url]
Resolving hetzner-de-12.ddns.net... 78.46.106.110
Connecting to hetzner-de-12.ddns.net|78.46.106.110|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1017118720 (970M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: “ubuntu-14.04-desktop-i386.iso.2”

 0% [                                                                  ] 10,082,797   332K/s  eta 47m 22s ^C

real	0m29.003s
user	0m0.011s
sys	0m0.120s

WA:

[root@home tmp]# time wget http://hetzner-de-12.ddns.net/files/ubuntu-14.04-desktop-i386.iso
--2015-05-06 16:57:48--  http://hetzner-de-12.ddns.net/files/ubuntu-14.04-desktop-i386.iso
Resolving hetzner-de-12.ddns.net... 78.46.106.110
Connecting to hetzner-de-12.ddns.net|78.46.106.110|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1017118720 (970M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: “ubuntu-14.04-desktop-i386.iso.3”

 1% [                                                                  ] 11,121,168  2.53M/s  eta 10m 16s ^C

real	0m6.848s
user	0m0.019s
sys	0m0.116s

 

[Sinbad]

Get on their support chat

 

[avr-rulez]

Well for the firs time this week I can Torrent at full line speed 1014kB.

Good stuff CW keep it up...

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Local Speedtests identical:

CW

WA

International Speedtest identical:

CW

WA

* Upload speeds not accurate on international as somebody started streaming something from my Plex server before the tests.

Downloading 50MB of an ISO from a server in Germany. Here is where there is a big difference, not sure why.

CW

Tims-MacBook-Pro:Downloads tim$ time curl -O http://hetzner-de-12.ddns.net/files/ubuntu-14.04-desktop-i386.iso
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  5  970M    5 50.1M    0     0   846k      0  0:19:33  0:01:00  0:18:33  806k^C

real	1m1.081s
user	0m0.552s
sys	0m2.173s

WA

Tims-MacBook-Pro:Downloads tim$ time curl -O http://hetzner-de-12.ddns.net/files/ubuntu-14.04-desktop-i386.iso
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  5  970M    5 49.1M    0     0  2344k      0  0:07:03  0:00:21  0:06:42 3106k^C

real	0m22.208s
user	0m0.369s
sys	0m1.454s

Noticed the same thing with a local test file using curl, but then my power went off so couldn't complete the test.

 

[FHTheron]

Here is where there is a big difference, not sure why.

Same routes to that server on both accounts?

 

[Deleted member 83147]

Hey, is support offline at the moment?

I have some packet loss I need to discuss with them.

 

[Deleted member 83147]

Odd, now it's back online again

 

[Sinbad]

CW can I suggest perhaps an IQ test as part of your application process?

Either that, or go back to the good old Sierra Online anti-piracy stuff:
"To process your application, please enter the second word of the fourth sentence of section G of the T&Cs"