Speed Query (from Free iBurst bandwidth after midnight)

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divv

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RVQ said:
Must say after a while one does run out of usefull stuff to download, seriously makes you wonder what the guys that do over 200GB a month are downloading.... YouTube mirror maybe?

Dont know how the network is coping in other areas but from my experience so far there cant be many people in my area making use of this trial. I get a decent 100K download speeds through the morning...
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Then I'm obviously doing something wrong.
Last night (early this morning) I was only getting about 3kB/s - even the microsoft update wouldn't run...
Not sure what I am doing wrong... Anyone got suggestions?
 
divv said:
Then I'm obviously doing something wrong.
Last night (early this morning) I was only getting about 3kB/s - even the microsoft update wouldn't run...
Not sure what I am doing wrong... Anyone got suggestions?
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Signal, MTU settings, checked for other background updates?

Microsoft sites are probably the worse benchmark... have you tried a more reliable http download?
 
RVQ said:
Signal, MTU settings, checked for other background updates?

Microsoft sites are probably the worse benchmark... have you tried a more reliable http download?
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Well I've recently changed the MTU settings to 1392 as per the thread suggestion - if anything I'd say my regular webpages seem slower since?
My signal shows as 100%.
No other background stuff..
 
divv said:
Randburg. Block from Cresta on Linden side. (probably fall under Northcliff tower?)
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The coverage in that area looks great. I suggest your move your modem around in your house, maybe closer to a window (or see if an antenna makes a difference)
 
Some of the newer complexes and houses walls are like electromagnetic dead zones, so try figure out where the tower is move the modem to that side of the house, try and not line any walls with "line of sight" to the tower (i have this trouble, surprisingly moving it up to "peek" over the wall increases from 40% to 98%) .
 
r00igev@@r said:
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The coverage in that area looks great. I suggest your move your modem around in your house, maybe closer to a window (or see if an antenna makes a difference)
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Signal strength shows 100% so I don't think that's the issue... perhaps as mentioned its what I was trying to download.
 
divv said:
Signal strength shows 100% so I don't think that's the issue... perhaps as mentioned its what I was trying to download.
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I've had issues where 90% of my web page requests returned blank pages and downloads went at like 2KB/s.I was getting very high error rates (more than 10% is very bad). I dont know why it errors at some places, I can only assume it's too close to a cellphone, or refraction of the iburst signals, or it's trying to pick up reflected signals etc. But finding a place where errors were less than 2% helped a lot.
 
eltherza said:
I've had issues where 90% of my web page requests returned blank pages and downloads went at like 2KB/s.I was getting very high error rates (more than 10% is very bad). I dont know why it errors at some places, I can only assume it's too close to a cellphone, or refraction of the iburst signals, or it's trying to pick up reflected signals etc. But finding a place where errors were less than 2% helped a lot.
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How/ where do you find out your error rate?
 
I don't use ibursts "dashboard", but when you install the drivers, you'll see in the icon tray an IB [blue background and yellow text], if you double click on that, it'll show your signal strength and upload/ download rate, also in there is % error when data is flowing, so if you open a webpage or something ,you'll see the % error jump around. It only updates when data is flowing.

I find that if you ping google ("ping www.google.com -n 1000") you can move your modem around getting rather nice updates on signal strength and error rates via that IB, until you get a nice consistent 80%+ signal strength and generally the % should be less than 2% [it jumps, but try keep is consistently lower than 2%]
 
Jagtiger said:
iBurst Dashboard
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No where on my dashboard do I see an error rate?
I have connected/disconnected, signal strength, upload/download speeds (burst and average), remaining data (when/if it feels like showing that!) etc but no error rate...
 
eltherza said:
I don't use ibursts "dashboard", but when you install the drivers, you'll see in the icon tray an IB [blue background and yellow text], if you double click on that, it'll show your signal strength and upload/ download rate, also in there is % error when data is flowing, so if you open a webpage or something ,you'll see the % error jump around. It only updates when data is flowing.

I find that if you ping google ("ping www.google.com -n 1000") you can move your modem around getting rather nice updates on signal strength and error rates via that IB, until you get a nice consistent 80%+ signal strength and generally the % should be less than 2% [it jumps, but try keep is consistently lower than 2%]
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Ah, ok the terminal's display window. I see the error rate thing you mean. It varies, as you say - just loaded a page and it umped around, up and down up to a peak of 5 or 6% on occasion.
 
divv said:
No where on my dashboard do I see an error rate?
I have connected/disconnected, signal strength, upload/download speeds (burst and average), remaining data (when/if it feels like showing that!) etc but no error rate...
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Sorry, I confused it with utility that came with iBurst.
 
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