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

Yeah, I'm experiencing very slow international speeds as well. Downloads are crawling along ...
The timing is a little scary, considering what most of us went through late last week ...
 
Lets hope not I don't want to go though that again...please no....Just did another speedtest, crawling along at 0.24 download. Upload is fine....
 
Yeah, same here. I mean, I've had miserable speeds for over a year, and last week Thursday my problems finally came to an end. It finally looked like I would have a decent connection with good speeds. Then that whole cable problem happened. Now, just as that's been fixed, and just as I'm starting to get used to my better internet connection, this happens once more ...
The world isn't fair sometimes ...

MYBB International Speed Test

Test conducted on 14/2/2013 20:57:00

Download Speed: 94 kbps (11.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 252 kbps (31.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 298 ms
 
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it seemed fine again at 4am now its slow again local is fine though.

Local

Test conducted on Fri Feb 15 2013 11:59:17 GMT+0200 (South Africa Standard Time)

Download Speed: 1149 kbps (143.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 473 kbps (59.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 146 ms

Int
Test conducted on Fri Feb 15 2013 12:00:30 GMT+0200 (South Africa Standard Time)

Download Speed: 161 kbps (20.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 260 kbps (32.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 314 ms
 
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Just phoned iBurst. They said there are a few (unspecified) problems, but they're only affecting certain areas in Joburg. I was given a list of the affected areas, and promptly forgot them as I was told that my area was unaffected. So apologies for that. My memory can be very selective at times. Despite that, I'll double check everything once I get back home.
 
I phoned them as well, the answer I got was different to yours, they told me that there is an issue and it will be resolved by the end of today, according to the person I spoke to it was all international traffic.

Lets hope this does not end up like last weeks debacle.

:(
 
I'm more inclined to believe what iBurst told you, Stõrmza. Just got back home, and international download speeds are really bad. So all we can do is hope that it'll be fixed today ...
At times like these, we need r00i.

Yeah, I don't think I can do with another repeat performance like last week ...
 
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Oh well...

SO much for using my cap this weekend yet again.

International

Test conducted on Fri Feb 15 2013 16:54:02 GMT+0200 (South Africa Standard Time)

Download Speed: 192 kbps (24 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 208 kbps (26 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 316 ms
 
Pathetic...

Test conducted on 2/15/2013 4:52:49 PM

Download Speed: 75 kbps (9.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 132 kbps (16.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 409 ms
 
I have a theory that someone at iBurst is purposefully doing this so that they can download using all the international bandwidth from the iBurst datacenter. Until proven otherwise thats my story and I'm sticking with it! :p
 
thanks to whoever worked on resolving this much appreciated!

International
Test conducted on Fri Feb 15 2013 23:24:27 GMT+0200 (South Africa Standard Time)

Download Speed: 1484 kbps (185.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 221 kbps (27.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 308 ms
 
Struggling with international downloads and windows updates are crawling.
 
I usually never complain, but tonite its gone for a ball of s....

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And equally how long it took to post this with attachments :erm:
 
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What the F is going on...

Test conducted on 3/2/2013 8:19:13 PM

Download Speed: 87 kbps (10.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 93 kbps (11.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 371 ms

I am sick to death of this crap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Does anyone know what's going on at iBurst? This is really ridicules.

Everything used to be great in the past. I was really satisfied with the speeds for my day to day usage.

I've been struggling with extremely snail paced internet for a few weeks now. I mainly use internet to connect to my LOCAL servers at the office to do work, but I can't for the life of me work like this. It takes ages just to get a response from a single mouse click. Not even to mention normal web browsing, some pages doesn't even load completely. MyBB take about a minute to open up.

Come on iBurst! How little can a company care about the service they offer?

I have to laugh, Speedtest.net says my internet connection is slower than 99% of ZA!

0.14Mb/s down and 0.04Mb/s up @ 520ms ping.

Even dial up was better than this.

Please iBurts, I beg of you, sort this mess out!
 
MrVee said:
Does anyone know what's going on at iBurst? This is really ridicules.

Everything used to be great in the past. I was really satisfied with the speeds for my day to day usage.

I've been struggling with extremely snail paced internet for a few weeks now. I mainly use internet to connect to my LOCAL servers at the office to do work, but I can't for the life of me work like this. It takes ages just to get a response from a single mouse click. Not even to mention normal web browsing, some pages doesn't even load completely. MyBB take about a minute to open up.

Come on iBurst! How little can a company care about the service they offer?

I have to laugh, Speedtest.net says my internet connection is slower than 99% of ZA!

0.14Mb/s down and 0.04Mb/s up @ 520ms ping.

Even dial up was better than this.

Please iBurts, I beg of you, sort this mess out!
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my problem as well!!
 
Hi MrVee

Could you please foward me your contact details and utid number (00126) to [email protected], so we can contact you and find a solution for your problem.

Regards
 
No browsing (apart from gmail client) and no emails (well I only received 3 instead of my daily deluge), webmail from 3G dongle does not work either.
 
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