SAINET

[tft]

I signed up for a 2GB account just to test, but the results does not seem too promising:

PING www.l.skype.com (78.141.177.7): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=0 ttl=48 time=284.257 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=3 ttl=48 time=279.040 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=4 ttl=48 time=277.446 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=5 ttl=48 time=279.908 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 6
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=7 ttl=48 time=347.855 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=8 ttl=48 time=287.003 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=9 ttl=48 time=277.726 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=10 ttl=48 time=315.930 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=11 ttl=48 time=276.313 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=12 ttl=48 time=362.523 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 13
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=14 ttl=48 time=283.193 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=15 ttl=48 time=332.422 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 16
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=17 ttl=48 time=380.440 ms
^C
--- www.l.skype.com ping statistics ---
18 packets transmitted, 13 packets received, 27.8% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 276.313/306.466/380.440/35.669 ms

and on Afrihost:

PING www.l.skype.com (78.141.177.7): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=0 ttl=49 time=214.352 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=213.564 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=235.097 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=3 ttl=49 time=221.052 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=4 ttl=49 time=212.410 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=5 ttl=49 time=212.303 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=6 ttl=49 time=225.619 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=7 ttl=49 time=219.207 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=8 ttl=49 time=234.941 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=9 ttl=49 time=218.652 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=10 ttl=49 time=221.390 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=11 ttl=49 time=241.512 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=12 ttl=49 time=217.005 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=13 ttl=49 time=213.631 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=14 ttl=49 time=218.128 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=15 ttl=49 time=248.959 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=16 ttl=49 time=227.365 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=17 ttl=49 time=211.044 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=18 ttl=49 time=214.554 ms
64 bytes from 78.141.177.7: icmp_seq=19 ttl=49 time=216.484 ms
^C
--- www.l.skype.com ping statistics ---
20 packets transmitted, 20 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 211.044/221.863/248.959/10.344 ms

 

[davemc]

Damn! That's shocking packet loss right there!

 

[TrueTenacity]

Still waiting for Telskum to turn on my dsl line so Sainet can create my account.... ugh...

 

[TrueTenacity]

My gosh, how long does it take for this to happen... my application was approved on tues and I'm still waiting... ARGH!

 

[Wag]

I was with Sainet before Afrihost. Had no problems at all. I will also go back to them in April for the uncapped service.

Gian, don't slip now. We are loyal but we want/need/wait for a uncap offer. PLEASE !!!!!!!!

 

[TrueTenacity]

There is uncapped offer at the moment, I.E. RIGHT NOW, you just have to get the line rental as well.... (which takes ages :-() those needing just the data have to wait till april...

 

[Wag]

Never ever will I again transfer the line to a ISP again

 

[Wag]

Never ever will I again transfer the line to a ISP again

Sorry for the second "again"

 

[TrueTenacity]

Hmmm, been using SAInet for the past 2 hours or so and it has been a pleasure!

Torrents and browsing working fine as long as you split the bandwidth between them

 

[NeonNinja]

How??? The max that you should get is 40KB/s, unless you meant 330Kb/s in which case is a bit less than 40KB/s.

Think he means 330/8 which is 41.25KB/s right? These K k, B b ps kB/s etc are confusing at times. So now what's difference between 'Kb/s and KB/s' as CrAzYLeGs noted? Kilobits / Kilobytes?

 

[NeonNinja]

.....

Just because it works out cheaper per gig, does not mean you can afford it...

Nice ADSL price quote.

 

[NeonNinja]

.....

Just because it works out cheaper per gig, does not mean you can afford it...

Nice ADSL price quote/say.

 

[Bandwidth]

Today was my first day ever of having UNLIMITED INTERNET IN SOUTH AFRICA!!! (I lived in USA for 8 years but that doesn't count) Sainet seems great so far. I have been using them for almost 15 hours now. The speed seems a tiny bit faster than Afrihost, I wasn't expecting that. My torrents used to go at an average of 28KB/s but now they average at least 30KB/s and I have seen 34 many times today. speedtest.net confirms that my speed is a hair faster than Afrihost (Full line speed) but my ping is a tiny bit worse. Average ping of 165 instead of the 105 I used to get with Afrihost. This does not seem to be a problem at all, my wife is talking to her mom on Skype right now and it sounds perfect.

 

[superskully]

Think he means 330/8 which is 41.25KB/s right? These K k, B b ps kB/s etc are confusing at times. So now what's difference between 'Kb/s and KB/s' as CrAzYLeGs noted? Kilobits / Kilobytes?

K means Kilo - like Kg, Km - not sure if it has to be capital though
b (bit) = 1/8 B (Byte)

 

[iPirate]

Got SAINET Uncapped 384 today. Amazed at the speed.

Speedtest to Jozi

Down - 0.45Mb/s
Up - 0.10Mb/s

Not too shabby for a 384 line...

 

[TrueTenacity]

Hit a snag with the DSL...

Downloading and browsing are awesome...

But my WoW latency is roughly DOUBLE what I was getting on iBurst...

Isn't DSL supposed to have better latencies than wireless??


Edit: It's now gone up to 10x my iBurst ping.... this is awful...

 

[Sainet]

Hit a snag with the DSL...

Downloading and browsing are awesome...

But my WoW latency is roughly DOUBLE what I was getting on iBurst...

Isn't DSL supposed to have better latencies than wireless??


Edit: It's now gone up to 10x my iBurst ping.... this is awful...

Hey TrueTenacity,

Can you do a trace route for me to the Wow server - and we'll escalate the issue.

Btw - Please PM me your SAINET username.

Thanks
SAINET

 

[TrueTenacity]

Tracing route to wow-europe.com [80.239.186.22]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms MYWAG320N [10.0.0.1]
2 22 ms 22 ms 22 ms 41-216-195-193.neoinx.net [41.216.195.193]
3 27 ms 26 ms 26 ms grzar01-gig3-50.neoinx.net [41.216.193.174]
4 25 ms 25 ms * grzisg01-ms-50.neoinx.net [41.216.193.177]
5 27 ms 39 ms 26 ms sainetcr02-eth2-vlan215.neoinx.net [41.216.193.190]
6 27 ms 25 ms 27 ms grzcr01-eth1.neoinx.net [41.216.193.1]
7 29 ms 29 ms 25 ms grzbr01.neoinx.net [41.216.193.14]
8 24 ms 27 ms 24 ms neobr01-fa10.neoinx.net [41.216.193.157]
9 272 ms 282 ms 270 ms seacom.neology.co.za [41.220.240.233]
10 282 ms 268 ms 268 ms level3.peering.neology.co.za [212.113.15.97]
11 334 ms 284 ms 416 ms ae-12-51.car2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.67]
12 268 ms 280 ms 310 ms telia-level3-ge.London1.Level3.net [4.68.111.182]
13 339 ms 326 ms 267 ms ldn-bb1-link.telia.net [80.91.250.234]
14 274 ms 294 ms 285 ms prs-bb2-pos6-0-0.telia.net [213.248.65.114]
15 277 ms 274 ms 273 ms prs-b7-link.telia.net [80.91.249.37]
16 337 ms 276 ms 274 ms prs-sdix-i1-link.telia.net [80.91.248.113]
17 278 ms 276 ms 274 ms 80-239-170-114.customer.teliacarrier.com [80.239.170.114]
18 279 ms 298 ms 277 ms starcraft2.eu [80.239.186.22]

Trace complete.

 

[Tinuva]

Looks like there are some fluctuations in the latencies, jumps from 270ms to 416ms, thats pretty huge. You would want it stable at 270ms all the time.

 

[TrueTenacity]

well, while i was playing WoW i started at 280 and then slowly crept up to just over 7500... at which point WoW gave up...