*READ FIRST* iBurst Network Status & Issues (DNS, Throughput and Latency)

Greenside. Joburg.

This is definately a problem. Youtube stuttering since yesterday. Tonight I cannot listen to a 56kbit _local_ stream.

I did the debugging on my side. Rebooted router. Closed other apps. Rebooted modem. I even tested it via phone on my local wireless. Your helpdesk droid insists that we need to eliminate router as a cause first. If I do that I cannot call him on my iBurst VOIP phone while doing the test on my computer.

I'm on a 2Mbit modem with excellent reception normally. I manage 1.5Mbit even during torrential downpours. It is not the weather.

Pings (latency) look allrright. Download and uploads to local speedtest server all but ceased to work.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1686548402.png

Your network status page is not working. The incidents paged not updated since November?

Please attend.
 
Speed is still bad u can see by the traceroute i did there is something wrong


Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Johan>tracert www.google.com

Tracing route to www.l.google.com [74.125.233.18]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 3 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.1
2 70 ms * 67 ms iburst-41-213-48-1.iburst.co.za [41.213.48.1]
3 72 ms 149 ms 49 ms 192.168.0.97
4 73 ms 169 ms 269 ms 192.168.0.114
5 137 ms 142 ms 150 ms iburst-41-213-126-19.iburst.co.za [41.213.126.19
]
6 709 ms 566 ms 672 ms ge2-24.gw14.jnb6.za.mtnbusiness.net [66.8.42.21]

7 734 ms 830 ms 229 ms 74.125.49.218
8 71 ms 100 ms 108 ms 64.233.174.105
9 133 ms 109 ms 93 ms cpt01s01-in-f18.1e100.net [74.125.233.18]

Trace complete.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1686602517.png
 
my next question is its now been 3 days that i couldnt have used the internet and each day 1 get 1 gig of fair usage is that gonna stack up or am i gonna loose that 3 gig cause according to the website on my logs im loosing that 3 gig cause i couldnt use the internet
 
I have not yet had any issues with my new shiny 2MB modem. Until Monday this week when the problem started. Download speeds were 1/4 of what I normally get my upload speeds seem to be "ok" but again about 1/2 of what they normally are. I do understand weather is a major factor with wireless and I can accept the fact that sometimes it's going to be horrible but this is not weather related at all. My signal is 100% watching the webpage for the new modem it doesn't budge from there and packet loss sits between 0%-3% which imo is not bad for a wireless solution.

I've rebooted I have unplugged the modem for an entire evening and used 3G instead and still tonight I cannot use it at all for anything that requires a stable connection. I am also in the JHB area. Speed tests below seem to be better than others I have seen here so far but i Normally sit at around about 180kb/s download and 52 Kb/s upload.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1688664087.png
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1688666697.png

The network status page is out of date so I doubt whether it's accurate. My connection is just very unstable and seems to stop and go when browsing or gaming...it sucks :( my wife is going away this weekend and the interweb is broken :(
 
For the past 3 days the speed has been crap, averaging at 8kbps. I did a speed test and it shows 50kbps dl speed but this is not during youtube videos which BitMeter shows less than 8kbps which is utter rubbish.

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This is what gets me. Everyone says that there is no shaping/restrictions being applied.

But come midnight to morning when everyone is supposed to be leeching the crap out of the network, I get a constant http://www.speedtest.net/result/1689412996.png (every night)

Yet comes 7am the speed just drops to http://www.speedtest.net/result/1688289621.png

What is the use of having an internet connection you cannot use for work during the day?

I don't care about full speed at night, cause that is when I sleep. Sigh.
 
Just tested mine again and

Last Result:
Download Speed: 1697 kbps (212.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 523 kbps (65.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 114 ms

but i bet when i get home its back to rubbish speeds as it has been the whole week.
 
Im unable to raid in WoW today, I lag out and get disconnected. Congestion?
 
Got home and the speeds are back to slow-mo again.

This Morning
Last Result:
Download Speed: 1697 kbps (212.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 523 kbps (65.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 114 ms

After Work still 100% Signal haven't touched my router
Last Result:
Download Speed: 514 kbps (64.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 326 kbps (40.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Can't game at all just constant spiking on latency 250....then 1000... :(

Using the http://www.gam.co.za speed test. I can post speedtest.net results as well says the same thing :(
 
Bursty-dude said:
Like it says on the bottom of the Speedtest homescreen "Are you getting what you have paid for?"

Simple answer is "No!".
Click to expand...

Well at the moment I am not however as my first speed test indicated I am able to get full speed on my 2MB modem but thats only in the morning, then later during the day it just dies, I was very happy with the 2MB modem but as from the start of this week it is a waste of money as I am running less than my older 1MB modem speeds.

I just want to game....wife is away this weekend and now I am stuck with wasting money on 3G ...bleh
 
Im having the same problem just trying to play starcraft 2 constant lag outs game doesnt even want to log in some times
 
Just tested a video out on YouTube and it plays fine. I doubt the speed will stay this way considering the feedback from above.
 
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