Slow Start to Year?

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First up, a happy new year to all iBursters reading this forum. May your speeds improve, your caps and reliability be increased, and your subscriptions reduced. :)

That said, I hope the following is temporary and not a sign of things to come...

----83.138.189.100 PING Statistics----
66 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 96% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 260/260/260

----196.4.160.2 PING Statistics----
66 packets transmitted, 12 packets received, 81% packet l
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 60/130/720

----196.30.31.120 PING Statistics----
66 packets transmitted, 66 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 60/81/230
 
Thank you for the good wishes, may they return many fold – seems you gonna need it.

Shall we be kind and say it's the hangover of 2007 - been experiencing similar (intermittent) issues since 27-12-07.
 
This is what happens when techies go on holiday. Nobody to make the little Chinese children remember 1s and 0s.
That aside, someone needs to overhaul the way iBurst run their system. Squid? are they kidding? I don't even want to guess their configurations but I'd be glad to replace their whole system with OpenBSD/PF (http://www.openbsd.org)
There are several ISPs already making use of it.
 
SLOOOOW here too. Pings of 800+ms, pages take forever to load and it's just generally of an iBurst standard.
 
Things are quite sluggish on my side too. So much for new years resolutions. Only 8 more months to go, and I'm popping the iBurst bubble... :sick:
 
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Performance from Kyalami tower in JHB pretty poked too.
 
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What's probably happened is that everyone now has their bandwidth again, ie reset caps and all. So we all suffer because they haven't bought enough bandwidth to supply the demand.

Looking forward to switching to another provider soon.
 
For me its a bit worse than that .... http access it totally shot.
 
It seems a little bit better this morning. I can actually browse this forum without having to refresh a number of times before it finally loads the page.

Ping statistics for 196.40.97.13:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 106ms, Maximum = 280ms, Average = 162ms
 
Pinging local sites seems to be okay-ish (0-50% packet loss). Anything international is terrible (75-100% packet loss).

Thank you iBurst for my wonderful browsing experience
 
Sometimes, the sensitivity of iBurst KILLS me!

Orange light -> move 2cm to the right -> full signal!!!
 
Current connectivity - Cape Town, Gardens Centre

Google
Ping statistics for 64.233.167.99:
Packets: Sent = 539, Received = 453, Lost = 86 (15% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 282ms, Maximum = 757ms, Average = 363ms

My ADSL
Ping statistics for 196.40.97.13:
Packets: Sent = 907, Received = 904, Lost = 3 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 35ms, Maximum = 529ms, Average = 94ms

iBurst Gateway
Ping statistics for 41.208.224.1:
Packets: Sent = 964, Received = 964, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 31ms, Maximum = 465ms, Average = 82ms
 
Pings are fine on my side and browsing speeds are back to normal. I called iBurst today and apparently one of their caching servers broke but the issue has now been resolved.
 
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