Some feedback would be nice?

[TheRabbi]

Hi All,

It there anybody making use of VSAT 24x7?

Some feedback would be nice?

 

[bradleyzorg]

i am.
what would you like to know?

 

[charlf]

Hi Bradley

I had it installed on Friday, seems ok.
I read somewhere the Unit 360SE something has got routing capabilities. Do you know how to log in to it? I can telnet to it but have no login/username. I don't want to phone Telkom, it will take days to get an answer

 

[TheRabbi]

Hi Charlf,

Any joy yet? Are you up and running?

 

[charlf]

After it was installed I spent 30 minutes on the phone to Telkom and it was working

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[bradleyzorg]

yeh you can telnet it... with no password! its rediuclous... but i dont think you will get any xtra performance out of it, i sure didnt

 

[TheRabbi]

Hi Charlf,

What does you throughput look like? And your pings?
Please do a ping and a tracert to 196.30.80.10?

ta

 

[charlf]

Hi Rabbi

OK, wil do when I'm at work tomorrow.

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[charlf]

6 866 ms 833 ms 939 ms ^C
C:\Documents and Settings\Charl>ping 196.30.80.10

Pinging 196.30.80.10 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 196.30.80.10: bytes=32 time=1743ms TTL=105
Reply from 196.30.80.10: bytes=32 time=1795ms TTL=105
Reply from 196.30.80.10: bytes=32 time=3077ms TTL=105
Reply from 196.30.80.10: bytes=32 time=1945ms TTL=105

Ping statistics for 196.30.80.10:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 1743ms, Maximum = 3077ms, Average = 2140ms

 

[charlf]

Tracing route to www.news24.com [196.30.80.10]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 6 ms 3 ms 5 ms 10.20.0.81
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 807 ms 819 ms 3782 ms 192.168.1.20
4 826 ms 789 ms 2221 ms 196.43.6.185
5 1615 ms 961 ms 1089 ms 196.43.6.241
6 1007 ms 1731 ms 1731 ms 196.43.10.17
7 1747 ms 811 ms 2715 ms rrba-ip-er-1-fe-3-0-1.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43
.10.150]
8 1559 ms 1666 ms 1731 ms atm6-0sub1.br1.jnb6.alter.net [196.31.39.54]
9 832 ms 1026 ms 875 ms srp5-0-0.cr5.jnb6.alter.net [196.30.156.9]
10 2605 ms 939 ms 1754 ms atm1-1-0sub1.cr2.cpt1.alter.net [196.31.39.37]
11 833 ms 1474 ms 833 ms srp1-0-0.gw1.cpt1.alter.net [196.31.249.66]
12 1904 ms 2957 ms 2330 ms vlan10.hr3.cpt1.alter.net [196.30.176.39]
13 2736 ms 2723 ms 1669 ms www.news24.com [196.30.80.10]

Trace complete.

 

[TheRabbi]

So charlf,

Thanks for the test results.

What are you feelings about the service a few weeks down the line?

The performance any good?

 

[charlf]

It's doing the job. I knew from the beginning the speed is not fantastic. Only pain is having to login every 24 hours.


ps. Don't tell anyone but I figured out a way to use my pc without adding to the monthly transfer limit.