Problems with your connection after reaching your "cap"?

[gigtech]

Hey all,

Well... where to start. Since yesterday my connection speeds have really been bad (as in 2-3 kb/sec on average) and obviously the same thing today. I have sent iBurst an email and phoned then 2x to find out what is happening. I have been told that they are experiencing problems with the connections after the cap has been reached and cannot do anything before Tuesday as that is supposed to be when their technical guys will "fix" the problem. I guess we will wait and see.

However, i find that the speed gets throttled a bit when surfing the web (http protocol seems to have not been capped, as I seem to be getting very good speeds - I am going to try and see if any proxy will help with the connection) and isn't throttled when using messenger programs, and p2p. So, I have sort of come up with a slight solution for this at the temporary moment. Try using MSN Web Messenger instead of the Messenger program or Trillian (which is what I have been using for years and find it excellent).

You can still keep your p2p software open cause you never know something could still continue to download eventhough there are these pathetic speeds.

Also, try and download a pinging program which could help to keep your connection alive eventhough you might not be getting disconnected, it could still help by throttling your connection a bit. Not sure why it is like this, but seems to help a bit.

I will add some more help and information here within the next few minutes in order you help you all.

 

[jjtoymachine]

gary why arent you sharing files?????
LOL

 

[gigtech]

where dude?

 

[jjtoymachine]

exosee!

 

[gigtech]

ye i know, but which server cause i can only get onto d-vault

 

[jjtoymachine]

the iburst server....just wait a moe

 

[jjtoymachine]

add the community ID: 0A001C0FD4C7\myBurst:nostress.gotdns.org

 

[gigtech]

let me know of the name of the server....be back in a few, just restarting my pc

 

[jjtoymachine]

you just add the community above dude!

 

[guest2013-1]

i suggest you guys use irc for this... much more responsive than using a noticeboard

 

[ic]

Wow, since noone is posting I think that makes noone the thread killer .

 

[gigtech]

LOL, or so we will see....

 

[Decotey]

lol or use your telephone. Mind you we dont want any extra costs
Im too curios... what are you guys talking about?

 

[gigtech]

curious*

>>>Read above to find out what we are talking about, otherwise press the any key on your keyboard to continue

 

[RichardG]

It seems like when you Reach your CAP There system doesn't give you true 64 KB/S its much slower, one of the Help Desk guys phoned me up. Since there was an ISSUE with my account. So i tuned him whats going on. He told me on Tuesday it should be fixed up. He told me they might Restart Bandwidth Cap again. I'm not 100 % sure about the bandwidth been restarted but its what I heard. .

 

[slimothy]

i dont think they would or they would have to return all the revenue they've received after people bought more bandwith, who did you talk to?

 

[RichardG]

i dont think they would or they would have to return all the revenue they've received after people bought more bandwith, who did you talk to?

I'm not giving names or anything. It's what I heard from a guy at HelpDesk. Like I said his not 100 % sure about the bandwidth been rest on Tuesday it's just when the techni, gave him an ETA on tuesday.

It's just this issue with the bandwidth once you reach your CAP, you should be on True 64 kb/s but it seems like there system gives u slower line, since I was on slow line couldnt go to any international website nothing but now my account has been sorted out. So now i can surf and do what I like.

We can wait and see what happens on Tuesday, slimothy.

 

[slimothy]

well we already knew it was probably going to be fixed on tuesday but I think the thing you said about resetting the cap is BS, not trying to offend you or anything but it smells a little stinky from my side and doesn't make any sense.

We are here to share information but you wont give us a name so we can call him and ask too, you have a site that apparantly has information on how to get around WBS's custom capping system but you won't give us a URL. I don't think thats very condusive to the sharing enviroment we have here.

 

[slimothy]

oh and by the way the 64k will never be guaranteed, its 'up to 64k'

 

[RichardG]

oh and by the way the 64k will never be guaranteed, its 'up to 64k'

Well i was not even on 64 k, i was maybe on 10 k I couldnt do nothing. I was always disconnecting when i went to site and other stuff to long.....

Well i was reading the Site about Tuesday it should be fixed, I was just giving you feedback what i was told over the phone.


Well I've been reading the information about bypass, BUT it seems like it isnt for WBS, you were right, its for another Braodband company. Well i aint BS, you, If you get to know me, you'll know who I'm really.