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

And back to being slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow again:
1885519170.png
 
Bursty-dude said:
And back to being slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow again:
1885519170.png
Click to expand...
Slow does not even begin to describe the lack of speed currently available. I reckon I could strap a micro SD to a snail and send it off from Northriding to Sandton and it would get there before a similar sized e-mail got sent over iBurst.....
 
A bit better:
1885821194.png


What I cannot understand is the speed is now better with the towers in this area obviously loaded than with Speedtest results done over the long weekend when towers were not loaded.
 
Slow again :(

Local
Test conducted on 10 April 2012 05:59:38 PM
Download Speed: 420 kbps (52.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 207 kbps (25.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 237 ms

International
Test conducted on 10 April 2012 06:02:49 PM
Download Speed: 202 kbps (25.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 118 kbps (14.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 746 ms
 
Unplayable latency in wow as per usual so i did a quick tracert.

Code: 
Tracing route to 80-239-185-26.customer.teliacarrier.com [80.239.185.26]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    88 ms    39 ms   155 ms  iburst-41-213-8-1.iburst.co.za [41.213.8.1]
  2   157 ms    45 ms    49 ms  192.168.0.97
  3    90 ms    49 ms    53 ms  192.168.0.114
  4    67 ms    49 ms    49 ms  iburst-41-213-126-21.iburst.co.za [41.213.126.21]
  5     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 12     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 13     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
etc etc
 
Id love to know why/where/how this 113 address is. It constantly returns high pings.

Code: 
Tracing route to 195.12.238.192 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1    66 ms    55 ms    43 ms  iburst-41-213-32-1.iburst.co.za [41.213.32.1]
  2   101 ms    49 ms    49 ms  192.168.0.97
 [COLOR="#FF0000"][B] 3   343 ms   555 ms   579 ms  192.168.0.113[/B][/COLOR]
  4    81 ms    49 ms    45 ms  iburst-41-213-126-21.iburst.co.za [41.213.126.21]
  5   297 ms   233 ms   329 ms  ldn-b4-link.telia.net [213.248.95.177]
  6   297 ms   311 ms   247 ms  ldn-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.251.14]
  7   376 ms   259 ms   355 ms  prs-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.247.240]
  8   300 ms   245 ms   275 ms  prs-b8-link.telia.net [213.155.131.1]
 
Can I believe it? It cannot be true, can it?
1893883253.png


First time since November last year that anything close to 2Mbps has been klapped, nevermind over 2Mbps:)

And not just once, I did 5 consecutive tests and all were very close to or above 2Mbps.

MyBB speed test results, however, paint a different picture:

Local -
Test conducted on 14 April 2012 01:57:44 PM
Download Speed: 1205 kbps (150.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 408 kbps (51 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 184 ms

Int -
Test conducted on 14 April 2012 01:59:00 PM
Download Speed: 670 kbps (83.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 241 kbps (30.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 403 ms
 
It was a short-lived bout of happiness I had......:wtf:

Back to the usual crappy speeds again:
1894347569.png


And YouTube vids STILL do not want to even buffer again.
 
Ja, I'm not one to complain if iBurst is slow for a day or two... but this has been going for more than a week now...



Even iBurst's own speedtest gives me 0.29mbps

Is the official iBurst rep still around?
 
iBurst's download "speed" has been slow since last year just after the new packages were released.
No amount of tech jargon or excuses can convince us otherwise. It is a cold hard fact that nationwide there has been a serious drop in download speed since the new packages were made available.
 
ginggs said:
Source?
Click to expand...

Go look back on the threads complaining about the speed drop here on MyBB and on iBurst's FB page. Note the dates that the complaints started, then correlate that to the date the new packages were released.

We used to regularly see over 2Mbps during the day before the new packages were released and less than 0.5Mbps after.
Just a simple case of overloaded towers that caused the speed drop. Simple really.
 
Bursty-dude said:
Go look back on the threads complaining about the speed drop here on MyBB and on iBurst's FB page. Note the dates that the complaints started, then correlate that to the date the new packages were released.

We used to regularly see over 2Mbps during the day before the new packages were released and less than 0.5Mbps after.
Just a simple case of overloaded towers that caused the speed drop. Simple really.
Click to expand...
I don't believe the problem is nationwide, I believe it is limited to certain base stations. iBurst need to address these issues, whether it is by improving backhaul links to those base stations or putting up additional base stations in the affect areas.
 
Yup, it must be certain base stations...............scattered all around the country.
Seriously though, there were complaints from everywhere in SA about the slow speed.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X