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- Thread starter TheQuickOne
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Thats another thing, EHV said he had good speeds today whereas I had bad speeds, this does not make any sense since he is on the same tower but many more km away than I am, and before they messed with the tower upgrade my speeds were far higher than EHV had which makes sense since I am 1km from the tower.
He was also on the "64" range today which is normally the slow range, this is getting confusing now but just give me the dynamic back and I'll find my own stable IP.
He was also on the "64" range today which is normally the slow range, this is getting confusing now but just give me the dynamic back and I'll find my own stable IP.
the 70, 69 and 64 is probably only for CT along with the 67, 68 and a few others.
GreatBigMouth
Expert Member
Do you guys in Cape Town ever get IP's starting with 41?
Never used to but the other day I did for a short while and since then our gateway changed to 41.208.xxx.x and is still like that.
Can't remember exactly what it was before but it never started with 41.
EDIT: the old gateway was 172.17.0.100
GreatBigMouth
Expert Member
Here it seems to mostly start with 196.2.xxx.xxx and seldom with the 41.208.xxx.x range. However those that start with 41 seem to be slower? 
Ekhaatvensters
Executive Member
Okay so I checked, and yes, I am also on a static IP it would seem.
Normally if I change my IP through the router it changes right away, but it seems stuck on a .66 IP now.
We don't have a 41 IP on Plumstead, but it looked like Kenilworth is on the 41 range when Plumstead went down.
btw Mr.H, I'm sure what I called high speeds today wasn't nearly as fast as what you normally get and probably not much faster than I normally get either, but browsing seemed quite a bit more snappy than usual, especially for in the morning. Even international was pretty fast, but pings were the same as normal, maby a bit more stable.
Perhaps this resulted from the upgrades they did to CPT? What Ed described about the upgrades sounds about right...
Normally if I change my IP through the router it changes right away, but it seems stuck on a .66 IP now.
We don't have a 41 IP on Plumstead, but it looked like Kenilworth is on the 41 range when Plumstead went down.
btw Mr.H, I'm sure what I called high speeds today wasn't nearly as fast as what you normally get and probably not much faster than I normally get either, but browsing seemed quite a bit more snappy than usual, especially for in the morning. Even international was pretty fast, but pings were the same as normal, maby a bit more stable.
Perhaps this resulted from the upgrades they did to CPT? What Ed described about the upgrades sounds about right...
Ekhaatvensters
Executive Member
Here it seems to mostly start with 196.2.xxx.xxx and seldom with the 41.208.xxx.x range. However those that start with 41 seem to be slower?
Well, just guessing, but we only ever got 41.208 here in CPT when our tower went down, so i would guess that one tower is fixed at either 41 or 196, so it might have been that your normal tower was down for a while when you got the 41 IP and you were actually on a worse tower?
But if you regularly change between 41 and 196, then I guess one tower can dish IP's from both ranges.
Do you have a tower somewhere close enough to you for a connection to be made if your tower went down?
What bugs me is everything was working fine until they started changing things, and now some have it better than before and those that had it good now have problems.
Hopefully they can undo what they messed up in the first place, but going by past experience of their work I doubt it, looks like my good iburst experience is a thing of the past.
Hopefully they can undo what they messed up in the first place, but going by past experience of their work I doubt it, looks like my good iburst experience is a thing of the past.
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Ekhaatvensters
Executive Member
Well just how bad is your now Mr.H?
It would have had to degrade quite badly to make it.. well.. "bad".
A few months ago my connection also took a big dive from where it was when I first signed up. I guessed they must have moved something and being far away and using a antenna its easy for my connection to drop quite badly. It has maby got a bit better, but isnt nearly back to where it was. However im sure I could fix this by adjusting my antenna, probably moving it up or into the roof. A friend of mine just up the road has his antenna in the roof and gets a great connection out of it..
I'm just lazy.. waiting for Constantia and 2mb to do it for me
It would have had to degrade quite badly to make it.. well.. "bad".
A few months ago my connection also took a big dive from where it was when I first signed up. I guessed they must have moved something and being far away and using a antenna its easy for my connection to drop quite badly. It has maby got a bit better, but isnt nearly back to where it was. However im sure I could fix this by adjusting my antenna, probably moving it up or into the roof. A friend of mine just up the road has his antenna in the roof and gets a great connection out of it..
I'm just lazy.. waiting for Constantia and 2mb to do it for me
Ekhaatvensters
Executive Member
who.is.michael
Expert Member
Speed test...
The modem on my desk without an external antenna and static IP of 196.46.69.xx delivers a speed of 889.50kbps 111.19 KB/sec (-77db)
and with my second modem with an external antenna and static IP of 196.46.69.xxx delivers a speed of 934.40kbps 116.8 KB/sec (-56db)
at 12:16 24/11/06
As for the gateway,I am using the same one and when that changed my speed went down, no more 1.2 - 1.6 Mbps late at night and in the day (office hours) it's around 50 - 120 kbps.
EDIT: Same test at 09:44 25/11/06
with external antenna, rf signal and ip is the same:
114.00kbps 14.25 KB/sec
The modem on my desk without an external antenna and static IP of 196.46.69.xx delivers a speed of 889.50kbps 111.19 KB/sec (-77db)
and with my second modem with an external antenna and static IP of 196.46.69.xxx delivers a speed of 934.40kbps 116.8 KB/sec (-56db)
at 12:16 24/11/06
As for the gateway,I am using the same one and when that changed my speed went down, no more 1.2 - 1.6 Mbps late at night and in the day (office hours) it's around 50 - 120 kbps.
EDIT: Same test at 09:44 25/11/06
with external antenna, rf signal and ip is the same:
114.00kbps 14.25 KB/sec
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GreatBigMouth
Expert Member
I usually connect to the Faerie Glen Tower, however it picks up Menlo Park with a -110db signal. Not sure if it can actually "connect" to it.
41.208.224.1
Ekhaatvensters
Executive Member
Hmm, nice speeds.
Well I guess there isnt really much point in getting a signal much better than -80Db or so. After that your part is done, its up to the tower and iBursts network.
I just hope I'll get a signal around there off the new tower.. my current -100Db doesn't do wonders.. I'll promise you that.
EDIT: Thanks MrH
EDIT2: You can connect on -110Db GBM, but speed should be terrible. I can just (unable to describe how bad it is though) connect to the Kenilworth tower which is -120Db from where I am. However the UTD stays dead, no lights.. but there is infact a terribly slow connection which can load a MyADSL page in about 2 minutes.
Well I guess there isnt really much point in getting a signal much better than -80Db or so. After that your part is done, its up to the tower and iBursts network.
I just hope I'll get a signal around there off the new tower.. my current -100Db doesn't do wonders.. I'll promise you that.
EDIT: Thanks MrH
EDIT2: You can connect on -110Db GBM, but speed should be terrible. I can just (unable to describe how bad it is though) connect to the Kenilworth tower which is -120Db from where I am. However the UTD stays dead, no lights.. but there is infact a terribly slow connection which can load a MyADSL page in about 2 minutes.
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Well just how bad is your now Mr.H?
It would have had to degrade quite badly to make it.. well.. "bad".
A few months ago my connection also took a big dive from where it was when I first signed up. I guessed they must have moved something and being far away and using a antenna its easy for my connection to drop quite badly. It has maby got a bit better, but isnt nearly back to where it was. However im sure I could fix this by adjusting my antenna, probably moving it up or into the roof. A friend of mine just up the road has his antenna in the roof and gets a great connection out of it..
I'm just lazy.. waiting for Constantia and 2mb to do it for me
It's bad or rather it was during the day till around 15:00, that was yesterday and today then it picked up a bit today after that time and now is around +_600kbps which to me is very bad considering I used to get 1mbps with ease before.
who.is.michael
Expert Member
Maybe nice speeds late at night but thats all!!
With -56 db is should be much better, the load on the tower is now 0. Delete: been answ. by EHV
With -56 db is should be much better, the load on the tower is now 0. Delete: been answ. by EHV
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GreatBigMouth
Expert Member
-56db? Michael I wouldn't dream of getting that. The max I get out of my tower is -89 and it averages -91. You're actually lucky, even though you're in CT. 
EDIT: However I still manage to get a stable 700+ connection speed. This is better than some people with stronger signals than me? Sometimes I'm stunned by how the iBurst system works.
EDIT: However I still manage to get a stable 700+ connection speed. This is better than some people with stronger signals than me? Sometimes I'm stunned by how the iBurst system works.