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I agree with alot of people here as the speeds during their 'maintenance' were amazing. But alas since yesterday afternoon, the speeds have dropped considerably.

I'm planning to opt out of my contract and get iBurst as soon as it comes in.

 

[dorris]

noone seems to have learnt a lesson yet, I've been seeing this line from several people already <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">opt out of my contract and get iBurst as<b> soon</b> as it comes in.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Have you not learned to give a technology a 6-12 months to see what the companies policies are, how they react to consumers, if the technology is stable???
most users have been burnt once by buying into sentech so quickly.
Theres a phrase someone used before the Sentech Launch, <blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I'd rather stick with the devil I know than the one who hasn't shown his true colours yet<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

On a more positive note, I'm one of Sentechs more positive customers, have always seen at least 60% of my bandwidth, and over the last week, I've seen +12KB/s , I was unhappy about packet Loass, but that also seems to be changing, it intermittently varies between 0 and 12%. Today it is 0!!

 

[Saul]

I'm happy, the moment they stabilize sub 100 pings I reckon I will even upgrade to the 256K package.

The "6 hour" network upgrade hasnt seemed to make anything faster so what the hell was the point?

The forums seem deathly quiet though. Maybe a sign that everyone is to busy downloading?

 

[regardtv]

Personally I found that the "upgrade" has increased my average latency to some sites and packet loss is also higher .....

PEMV -&gt; personal experience may vary

 

[dorris]

yeah, my AVG RTT has also found a new ceiling somewhere, its previous one was 130, but today I'm spiking to 190, although I am on the old FW (more like 5.x.x.x.y something or other) never downgraded back yet.
I'm still hopefull these will be fixed with the new stable V5 firmware.
*edit*
got a call a few days ago from support in regard to my packetLoss issue, he said its totally tower related, and the spikes over last week were over the period they were tweaking the individual towers.
So what of the spikes now
orc : uhm... things will be resolved over the next 3 weeks, soon this service will kick ADSL's a$$
you mean sub 60 latency
orc : mmmmm, no.
speeds over 512k ?
orc : No, but no cap.

ROFL

 

[regardtv]

rofl

 

[arf9999]

Regardtv,

My latency has stabilized to around 180ms to sentech.co.za (sometimes slightly better, depends on the time of day - congestion related?). But my packet loss is still bad at over 15% and sometimes more than 20%. This fscks up any reasonable use of the internet.

If this is the fix, I'm going to cancel.





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

 

[regardtv]

you me and the rest of the world arf9999

Looking at my graphs(http://riggerman.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi?target=SouthAfrica.Sentech) I've had some varying results....

Last week Wed - Sat latencies were around 180ms... Since the "upgrade" I'm seeing 402ms average (9% packet loss)

the "upgrade" as I understood it was from STP to IS ? ... might be wrong here. So why has this affected the latency and packet loss to a LOCAL server ? ...

The more these guys(sentech) do the more I question it ...

 

[gripen]

I was also told that "its going to be much better than ADSL". Well times running out.. Unless of course they "switch-on" th new bandwidth that they are going to buy (the only way to fix the problem) on the last day of August.

 

[MyLowBandwidth]

6 hours seems a long time. Probably a practical server architecture lesson. 1 hour Disassemble, 2 hours to re-assemble, 1 hour on the crapper, 2 hours of prayer.

Cape Town 128K 18% Tower 22 (Salt River) PPPoE, IPCop

 

[arf9999]

GF,

Surely it's not just BW? If so, why is the local situation so sh*t?? Local BW is CHEAP.

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

 

[GougedEye]

I agree with Arf on the bandwidth. International bandwidth is never going to be that amazing while Telkom basically controls it. This is out of Sentech, (or WBS) control. And from my understanding, because of Telkom's control of SAT3, the SNO will not really be able to change this either, assuming of course that they are even inclined to do so and not just interested in playing Saruman to Telkom's Sauron. I would, however, expect International bandwidth on a 128k package to be comparable to what is achieved by a 128k ISDN package though, especially in terms of latency. This we are not achieving.

 

[TheRoDent]

greedy, people are just simply too tired to care anymore. I know I am... And yes, it's actually gotten worse since the changes. Now and again there's a good spot, but it's quite obvious that it's directly related to everyone getting disconnected and not reconnecting. During that window there is some semblance of performance from the service.


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[gripen]

yeah i dont see it getting any better for a long time.

yes, it is about bandwidth.. too control bandwidth usage (this is my theory-nothing official, yet..) they have a group (IP group) with decent performance. The rest just plain sucks -on purpose for ALL traffic. Basically they throttle you to prevent you from *abusing* international bandwidth. So local suffers yes. Is it unfair? Yes of course. But hey, you will get 3 or so days a month where you will be in the privileged group so rape it for what its worth..