Sentech FAQ & ping times

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Again, I don't know if this has been covered before, I can't find anything on the forum, but has anyone ever read the FAQ on sentech's site, specially the part regarding latency ?
 
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If 120ms is described as adverse conditions, wth do they call they 490ms - 2300ms I get ?
 
Hehe ... open a call centre ticket ;-) ... On second thought ... slit your wrists - more likely to bring some sort of results ;-)

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In preparation for the AMAZING "FIX" slated for today (friday) I've actually been running tests at 10 minute intervals to see if there are any differences ... One of these tests is a ping test ...

Summary:

Thu Jun 10 22:50:00 SAST 2004
163 packets transmitted, 157 received, 3% packet loss, time 59989ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 105.617/383.350/1519.904/235.761 ms

Thu Jun 10 23:00:00 SAST 2004
162 packets transmitted, 156 received, 3% packet loss, time 59910ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 93.177/390.498/1348.178/242.742 ms

Thu Jun 10 23:10:00 SAST 2004
156 packets transmitted, 154 received, 1% packet loss, time 59880ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 87.120/369.726/1097.275/227.034 ms

Thu Jun 10 23:20:00 SAST 2004
181 packets transmitted, 174 received, 3% packet loss, time 59809ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 88.701/328.535/1460.944/252.837 ms

Thu Jun 10 23:30:00 SAST 2004
150 packets transmitted, 149 received, 0% packet loss, time 59818ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 97.618/413.249/1178.631/232.260 ms

Thu Jun 10 23:40:00 SAST 2004
227 packets transmitted, 191 received, 15% packet loss, time 59958ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 90.872/262.217/1303.949/204.835 ms

Thu Jun 10 23:50:00 SAST 2004
165 packets transmitted, 157 received, 4% packet loss, time 59970ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 105.959/385.889/1349.406/260.677 ms

Fri Jun 11 00:00:00 SAST 2004
156 packets transmitted, 153 received, 1% packet loss, time 59498ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 102.854/405.054/1264.013/230.833 ms

Fri Jun 11 00:10:00 SAST 2004
183 packets transmitted, 178 received, 2% packet loss, time 59857ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 98.428/339.990/1487.730/210.645 ms



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If I have time I'll compile a nice summary breakdown after the weekend on tests performed from the Mywireless network and external tests TO the MyWireless network.

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looky ... you have the same **** pings I get, only you have lower minimums than me. what tower you on ?
 
Tower 12 Mintek (17% signal) - Interesting to see that incomming traffic (not shown here is VERY) close to this as well...

Looking at Rhino's "Speed Jump" thread I should move to DBN ;-) ... No wonder it's the kick arese MyWireless area - ProASM is there ;-)

R

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Maybe we should just steal some of his hair or something and clone him, or make voodoo dolls and force him to come tweak our towers
 
These are what everyones pings should look like after today, assuming sentech hold promises.
Mine have always been in this range.
ping command was run at 00:32

Ping statistics for 66.18.65.115:
Packets: Sent = 150, Received = 150, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 50ms, Maximum = 491ms, Average = 109ms
 
RegardTV, were you pinging locally, my international results come quite close to the ones you posted earlier... Oh well, at least your local min turnaround time beats my international min :)

Ping statistics for 216.239.51.147:
Packets: Sent = 40, Received = 40, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 314ms, Maximum = 540ms, Average = 366ms

I can't inderstand how the results can vary so much between users on the same network
 
It never stops amazing me either

Resolving host 'www.sentech.co.za'
Pinging [66.18.65.115] x 4 with 32 bytes of data

Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=532 ms
Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=268 ms
Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=357 ms
Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=1361 ms
Min=268 : Max=1361 : Ave=629 ms : Packetloss = 0%

Resolving host 'www.sentech.co.za'
Pinging [66.18.65.115] x 4 with 32 bytes of data

Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=1958 ms
Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=815 ms
Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=317 ms
Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=861 ms
Min=317 : Max=1958 : Ave=987 ms : Packetloss = 0%

Resolving host 'www.sentech.co.za'
Pinging [66.18.65.115] x 4 with 32 bytes of data

Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=1307 ms
Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=240 ms
Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=354 ms
Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=379 ms
Min=240 : Max=1307 : Ave=570 ms : Packetloss = 0%

Resolving host 'www.sentech.co.za'
Pinging [66.18.65.115] x 4 with 32 bytes of data

Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=439 ms
Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=236 ms
Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=481 ms
Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=1159 ms
Min=236 : Max=1159 : Ave=578 ms : Packetloss = 0%
 
My Ping times are exactly like the ones Malec is experiencing, and im on Base station 36, Sunnyside.

Whats confusing is, local the avg is always 450-600ms, internationally, the ping avg is 750-900ms. So if all is right, We should get a 500 or so International avg, and a 150 at highest local.

I have 37% signal...
 
Yes, since malec is on Sunnyside PTA as well. I think the tower is still stuffed so we wont be seeing any good results soon. Its been like this for over a week now. Hopefully this Friday story included the fixing of our useless tower. Somehow I think it was the fixing of the 'global' problem.

Strange that people are actually thinking its going to be fixed today. When before have they delivered on their promises? My speed is still sucking and has been for about 10 days (except a couple of hours here and there when everything was cool)
 
well I was pinging last night and I can tell you this.. you will NEVER have a max less than 250ms.. it's the spike that happens to this system, unless they change and enhance it further but you will have a better average.. DBN is running an average of around 150ms to www.saix.net and 120ms to www.sentech.co.za.. yes there are still 300-400ms spikes but the average ping time is in the hundreds.

Regards
Cerberus
 
Well I opened my ticket for 36 last night. KemoSabi and greedyflyza, if you guys don't already have open tickets for this open some ... maybe we can have it looked at before Christmas
 
I'm almost always in the 98-120ms range - day or night???
Yes... there is the occasional spike (that's life) but
it's not too often.
Has anyone looked at the link between ping times and SNL.
I believe that there may well be something here!
(Decent Signal + Good SNL = decent ping times)???

<font color="blue">Bay of Plenty: </font id="blue"><font size="1"><font color="black"> Signal 46% - SNL 17 - ber 71%
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The pings will never be good, that's just part of the signalling. Don't trust the "Average" that your ping utility reports either. The average is broken by the fact that every now and again, a ping of around 1500ms will come through, and this skews the true media by a lot.

On the old firmware, those 1500ms pings were just dropped into never-never-land, but with the x.8 firmware they get retransmitted, but gain a bit of extra round-trip time. This, is good, since on the old firmware those pings would have been dropped. Slow packets = better than packet loss.

Rather, take a look at the individual pings themselves. They fluctuate between 80-250 for me most of the time.

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I downgraded to 4.2.1.2b last night and I still get the high ones. And mine seems to fluctuate between 179 - 1xxx

Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=179 ms
Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=1078 ms
Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=318 ms
Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=419 ms
Min=179 : Max=1078 : Ave=498 ms : Packetloss = 0%

Resolving host 'www.sentech.co.za'
Pinging [66.18.65.115] x 4 with 32 bytes of data

Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=255 ms
Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=639 ms
Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=275 ms
Reply from 66.18.65.115 : bytes=32 : time=239 ms
 
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