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Okay I am happy with iBurst ! So this aint a 'i am unhappy about speed'
post. But I have a few questions.

I have no Antenna but according to my UTL Terminal I have got 100% signal.

When I do a telkom test I get more a less 70KB/s - 85KB/s

When I do the Mcafee speed test and various other international speed tests I get more a less 40-60KB/s

When I download a file from International Sites (small severs) about 20-30KB/s (however I can download three files at about 30KB/s)

When I download from M$ or Apple.com (Trailers) I get about 100 - 120KB/s

SO my question is this. Do some servers have slower download rates? The magic 1Mbit speed I only really see with huge servers like Macromedia, Micorsoft and Apple and some other ones... Not complaining at all cuz iBurst totally and utterly rapes other home connections in this country. But some input would be great!
 
Those companies usually have local sites where you download from (it looks like it's international, but it does some kind of intelligent routing as far as I can see)

International speeds (single threaded) is around 30-60kb/s, local would shoot up to an average of 90kb/s

Multithreaded is always nice :D

So in short, the speeds you experience is normal. Antenna won't help you f-all imo
 
It Depends on the server, The Transatlantic Backbone i think is OC192 (48Gbps). Now ppl and companies(small-medium) in the US can afford 100Mbit lines and the smaller companies maby 50Mbit(www.verizonfios.com), whereas businesses in South Africa can afford ISDN (Thanx $izwe and Telkom .|.). So it really does depend on the load of the server and what pipe it is on :D
 
yeah first of all make your browser use multithreading and you'll see browser speed tests jump to 120KB/s, and anything that uses single threads from international can yeild about a quarter of the full speed on average but sometimes it may be faster.

Just multithread everything
 
vowthorn said:
Okay I am happy with iBurst ! So this aint a 'i am unhappy about speed'
post. But I have a few questions.

I have no Antenna but according to my UTL Terminal I have got 100% signal.

When I do a telkom test I get more a less 70KB/s - 85KB/s

When I do the Mcafee speed test and various other international speed tests I get more a less 40-60KB/s

When I download a file from International Sites (small severs) about 20-30KB/s (however I can download three files at about 30KB/s)

When I download from M$ or Apple.com (Trailers) I get about 100 - 120KB/s

SO my question is this. Do some servers have slower download rates? The magic 1Mbit speed I only really see with huge servers like Macromedia, Micorsoft and Apple and some other ones... Not complaining at all cuz iBurst totally and utterly rapes other home connections in this country. But some input would be great!
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your service provider is using transparent FTP caching - if someone else has already downloaded the file, there will be a copy on the local proxy server already and it will deliver the download from there and not internationally as it may seem to you...
 
Here Is UNUN's guide to making your Mozilla Firefox use Multithreading:

1. type "about:config" in mozilla address and press enter

2. look for network.http.pipelining and set it to 1 with a double click

3. do the same to network.http.proxy.pipelining

4. increase network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to about 6

enjoi :D
 
Netscape 7.2

The config also works for Netscape 7.2
That is
1. Type "about:config" in netscape's address bar and press enter

2. look for network.http.pipelining and set it to 1 with a double click

3. do the same to network.http.proxy.pipelining

4. increase network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to about 6

Regards,
 
hmmm was wondering then, how do I set multithreading in IE??
 
dude, microsoft doesnt mean for you to get the most out of the internet so dont even think about it .. :DD
 
inertia, who knows, I can tell you how for firefox, which is better than IE and faster without multithreading, so maybe its time to switch.

also I keep hearing about iBursts "transparent proxy" that I have been told doesn't actually exist. who said iburst have a transparent proxy? you know that saying about assumption
 
slimothy said:
also I keep hearing about iBursts "transparent proxy" that I have been told doesn't actually exist. who said iburst have a transparent proxy? you know that saying about assumption
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hi - they may or may not have one in place. its irrelevant really, cos SAIX, IS and UUNET ALL have them in place. and you will automatically go through UUNET's transparent proxy as they are iBursts primary upstream provider. peering links to IS and SAIX will also have transparent proxies on the perimeter networks.

plus, i didnt say that anything about iburst having a proxy in my thread :-)
 
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