Performance in Cape Town

Is there anyone on this forum who has actually received an accurate answer from the techies at ibust about the resumption of normal services?
 
17/02/06 Base station outages 17/02/06 Strand, Table View, Plumstead, Goodwood, Bellville, CBD URGENT IN PROGRESS
Details Major aggregation link has caused outages on various Cape Town basestations. Engineers attending on site.

18/02/06 01:50 - situation not resolved. Currently getting speeds slowerrrr than what i used to (around 5kbps) Now just imagine how slow it is now! They should fix the problem and compensate us with no throttling/shaping/capping!! ( for minimum a month :| )
 
Seems to be holding a good speed from the Plumstead tower since it came back lastnight.
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Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:

* Download time: 3.531 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 1155.5 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 141.6 (kiloBytes/second)
 
I have also been getting over 1mb/s lately.... hmm you dont think they pushed it up to 2mb/s for a trial or something with out telling anyone?

Maby it's just over performing for a while since they reset the connection. However I got 1.5mb/s at like 11am today! Thats what I would expect, if not less, from a 2mb/s Iburst during the day. Your 1.15mb/s would also be about normal for so early in the moring.

OK its back to usual rubbish.... not like its that bad, I'm just off a high of thinking the speeds might be 2mb/s.
 
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I'd be quite happy if it just stays the way it is right now, no timeout on any sites both local or international and is performing as it should always have done.
 
This is what i get in Firefox all the time now. You guys?

The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.

* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.

* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
 
Not sure what the problem is on your side as Firefox works fine here.
 
@myles at what site are you getting that message?
Post it here so I can try it to see if it works.
 
Hi,

This solution may be absolutely useless to you but it works for me in a weird way. I sometimes have difficulties with Firefox where it fails to load a page or does so very very slowly when I start to begin browsing. However, if I load the same page in IE it loads perfectly and quickly.

Therefore my solution was to first start browsing a page with IE to get 'the engine running' then open Firefox and start browsing from there.

I've actually sat with my PC using firefox wondering why my connection does not seem to be working then open IE to find that the connection is working perfectly.

It all sounds as if Firefox was working offline but to the best of my ability it was definately active and connected to the internet but in a very slow way.

So the key, open IE, get a web page, close IE, start Firefox and it works.
Sounds like absolute nonsense but works for me.
 
@andytl5> Tried the IE option. The pages don't load there either.
I must mention that I am capped but pages take ages to load.
 
I was also getting the same error yesterday, I might still be getting it, but mainly on international sites anyway. I just click try again (Vuurjackels) and it works perfectly everytime. Pretty weird as the connection works perfectly then just suddenly cuts out on a page load.

I also tried the IE option out of couriosity before i saw it on this site and I think it worked for me, then again I might have just been disconnected and suddenly got my connection back the same time I started using IE out of frustration.
 
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