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

Still getting lots of timeouts on international browsing. This is just ridiculous. I can't get my work finished tonight.
 
I-Burst r sh*t and useless. They are thieves who don't care about their clients!
 
Day 5.
Some sites still take forever to load. Timeouts are prevalent. Still no response from iBurst.
 
At least you guys can access anything. Since Friday it tells me bandwidth is exceeded, when I've used 1GB total so far this month and have a 5GB account.

When I log into my account it shows all my usage stats as normal, except available bandwidth shows as 0, and I am unable to do anything. The account was purchased through Tradepage, so iBurst says it's their problem, and Tradepage says it's an iBurst issue, so WTF to do?!
 
Can you link a tracert to some sites?

We probably on different towers anyways.

I still got some local latencies issue which I am trying to sort out :(. But browsing seems ok.

No, mine is really horrible, has been for days, and nothing has changed my end. What is the tracert command? I know the ping one, but haven't worked out the tracert command.
 
The tracert command is 'tracert.exe' followed by the site or address you want to trace the route to...
 
No, mine is really horrible, has been for days, and nothing has changed my end. What is the tracert command? I know the ping one, but haven't worked out the tracert command.
Like in ping, run command line thingy:
Code:
C:\something>tracert enter.name.of.website.here
And hops will start showing up.
 
I see that on the iBurst website that they finally acknowledge that there is a problem in Durban for iBurst users. So hopefully that will get sorted out soon. Have checked and i have coverage in my area for CellC so i am probably going to go get it some time this week. Luckily i have a month to month contract with iBurst.

I think that they have people available on the phone 24 hours but not 24 hours technical support, because it has taken them 4 days to see there is a problem while many people were phoning and reporting the issue.

Something seems a bit off
 
I am in Durban and am still having an iBurst problem. Does anyone know when this is going to be resolved. The strange thing is that I have an iBurst Desktop Modem and an iBurst USB Modem. The USB Modem works fine, but can't get to most sites on the iBurst Desktop Modem. Anyone else having the same issue? I reset my desktop modem and the router it is attached to. It picks up the correct DNS settings but has problems going to most sites.
 
I see that on the iBurst website that they finally acknowledge that there is a problem in Durban for iBurst users. So hopefully that will get sorted out soon. Have checked and i have coverage in my area for CellC so i am probably going to go get it some time this week. Luckily i have a month to month contract with iBurst.

I think that they have people available on the phone 24 hours but not 24 hours technical support, because it has taken them 4 days to see there is a problem while many people were phoning and reporting the issue.

Something seems a bit off

Trust me, it's not just Durban...
 
Trust me, it's not just Durban...

Agreed - I'm in Randburg and access to overseas sites is so erratic the service is just about useless. If iBurst were to be more forthcoming as to the exact nature of the problem and announce an ETA for a solution I'd feel a bit better about the situation, but I strongly suspect they don't have a clue.
 
This is one the local sites I have been struggling to access.

Tracing route to avforums.co.za [97.107.139.93]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 91 ms 171 ms 77 ms iburst-41-213-64-1.iburst.co.za [41.213.64.1]
2 296 ms 484 ms 921 ms 192.168.0.97
3 531 ms 874 ms 780 ms 192.168.0.113
4 578 ms 499 ms 499 ms iburst-41-213-126-26.iburst.co.za [41.213.126.26
]
5 187 ms 234 ms 218 ms 41.160.155.177
6 359 ms 406 ms 515 ms if-1-5.bb1.JSO-Johannesburg.as6453.net [216.6.55
.49]
7 343 ms 311 ms 292 ms if-2-2-0.har1.KLT-CapeTown.as6453.net [41.206.16
4.1]
8 * 404 ms 488 ms 195.219.214.33
9 296 ms 249 ms 232 ms if-11-0-0-1776.mcore3.LDN-London.as6453.net [195
.219.195.93]
10 281 ms * * Vlan62.icore1.LDN-London.as6453.net [195.219.83.
1]
11 265 ms 249 ms 359 ms ldn-b5-link.telia.net [213.248.74.1]
12 281 ms 265 ms 265 ms ldn-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.252.201]
13 812 ms 312 ms 578 ms nyk-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.248.254]
14 374 ms 374 ms 359 ms nyk-b3-link.telia.net [80.91.245.82]
15 343 ms 343 ms 327 ms netaccess-tic-133837-nyk-b3.c.telia.net [213.248
.99.90]
16 390 ms 452 ms 328 ms 0.e1-4.tbr1.mmu.nac.net [209.123.10.101]
17 531 ms * 406 ms vlan803.esd2.mmu.nac.net [209.123.10.30]
18 468 ms 343 ms 359 ms 207.99.53.46
19 374 ms 328 ms 359 ms li100-93.members.linode.com [97.107.139.93]

Trace complete.
 
Tried to post my MyBB tracert but got:

DNS Error Temporary network problem, please retry later

The requested URL could not be retrieved
 
Tracing route to www.facebook.com [66.220.146.32]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 64 ms 62 ms 62 ms iburst-41-213-64-1.iburst.co.za [41.213.64.1]
2 93 ms 62 ms 62 ms 192.168.0.97
3 77 ms 46 ms 46 ms 192.168.0.113
4 93 ms 296 ms 62 ms iburst-41-213-126-26.iburst.co.za [41.213.126.26
]
5 93 ms 62 ms 62 ms 41.160.155.177
6 93 ms 62 ms 62 ms if-1-5.bb1.JSO-Johannesburg.as6453.net [216.6.55
.49]
7 124 ms 109 ms 93 ms if-2-3-0.har1.KLT-CapeTown.as6453.net [41.206.16
4.5]
8 374 ms 327 ms 234 ms 195.219.214.33
9 296 ms 390 ms 265 ms if-11-0-0-1776.mcore3.LDN-London.as6453.net [195
.219.195.93]
10 * 281 ms 249 ms Vlan1254.icore1.LDN-London.as6453.net [195.219.1
95.90]
11 421 ms 281 ms 296 ms xe-10-2-2.edge3.London1.level3.net [4.68.63.105]

12 265 ms 312 ms 265 ms ae-34-52.ebr2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.97]
13 343 ms 437 ms 327 ms ae-43-43.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.137.74]

14 359 ms 484 ms 343 ms ae-10-10.ebr2.Washington12.Level3.net [4.69.148.
50]
15 359 ms 374 ms 327 ms ae-5-5.ebr2.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.143.221
]
16 374 ms 343 ms 343 ms ae-62-62.csw1.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.1
46]
17 359 ms 390 ms 327 ms ae-1-69.edge3.Washington4.Level3.net [4.68.17.21
]
18 343 ms 312 ms 312 ms FACEBOOK-IN.edge3.Washington4.Level3.net [4.53.1
16.6]
19 390 ms 359 ms 343 ms ae2.bb02.iad2.tfbnw.net [74.119.77.148]
20 421 ms 406 ms 406 ms ae11.bb02.sjc1.tfbnw.net [74.119.77.199]
21 468 ms 718 ms 437 ms ae5.dr01.snc4.tfbnw.net [204.15.22.97]
22 406 ms 546 ms 406 ms eth-18-25.csw02a.snc4.tfbnw.net [74.119.77.33]
23 656 ms 421 ms 406 ms www-13-02.snc4.facebook.com [66.220.146.32]

Trace complete.
 
Took another two attempts to post Facebook tracert because....

DNS Error Temporary network problem, please retry later

The requested URL could not be retrieved
 
This is one the local sites I have been struggling to access.
.....
18 468 ms 343 ms 359 ms 207.99.53.46
19 374 ms 328 ms 359 ms li100-93.members.linode.com [97.107.139.93]
Just cause it ends in co.za doesn't mean its local ;) That one is definitely hosted overseas.
 
Now I can't access Google, wikipedia or news24 and MyBB is sporadic.

I think r00igev@@r (Last Activity: 02-12-2010) and iBurst (Gcebile) abandoned ship. I mean, I also wouldn't want to work for a company and get paid when I know nothing... wait - that sounds awesome!

Trace to wikipedia:
C:\>tracert en.wikipedia.org

Tracing route to text.esams.wikimedia.org [91.198.174.232]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 148 ms 46 ms 75 ms iburst-41-213-16-1.iburst.co.za [41.213.16.1]
2 76 ms 165 ms 69 ms 192.168.0.97
3 88 ms 49 ms 49 ms 192.168.0.113
4 79 ms 53 ms 139 ms iburst-41-213-126-26.iburst.co.za [41.213.126.26]
5 74 ms 159 ms 49 ms 41.160.155.177
6 87 ms 55 ms 74 ms if-1-5.bb1.JSO-Johannesburg.as6453.net [216.6.55.49]
7 137 ms 103 ms 345 ms if-2-3-0.har1.KLT-CapeTown.as6453.net [41.206.164.5]
8 258 ms 229 ms 316 ms 195.219.214.33
9 305 ms 289 ms 506 ms if-12-0-0.mcore3.L78-London.as6453.net [195.219.144.141]
10 279 ms 243 ms 256 ms if-11-2-2.mse1.LVX-London.as6453.net [195.219.144.26]
11 * * 333 ms Vlan3.icore1.LDN-London.as6453.net [195.219.195.49]
12 276 ms 249 ms 259 ms ldn-b5-link.telia.net [213.248.74.1]
13 420 ms 253 ms 259 ms ldn-bb1-link.telia.net [80.91.252.205]
14 275 ms 259 ms 283 ms adm-bb1-link.telia.net [80.91.253.191]
15 298 ms 369 ms 281 ms adm-b5-link.telia.net [213.155.130.43]
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 282 ms 259 ms 260 ms te-8-2.csw1-esams.wikimedia.org [91.198.174.254]
18 313 ms 269 ms 269 ms text.esams.wikimedia.org [91.198.174.232]

Trace complete.
 
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