Speed?

[guest2013-1]

Okay, it's early in the morning, they are doing maintanance in the HQ Server room with some of the servers, which would explain why my speed is back.

But just so that everyone know, my speed SEEMS to be back (jinxing myself) and I would like this topic to stay active during the day with people who can report re: Speed as I have to work my 4 days solid to just afford this piece of crap atm.

Anyone else getting what they're paying for?

Hell, my gran on a scooter with a memory stick is faster than Sentech's MyWireless!

 

[Headend]

Local http download - 29.98 kBps
International - 8.67 kBps (very spikey so cap must be off)
Ping statistics for 196.35.72.14:
Packets: Sent = 20, Received = 20, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 94ms, Maximum = 235ms, Average = 116ms

I'm getting what I paid for on local, but international is probably a third of what I expect.

Headend
Tower: Mintek (82) - Signal: 19% - Firmware: 5.0.1.60/A1 - 256k - Smoothwall and PPPoE

 

[MrGray]

International appears to be capped at 8KB today. Spiking above and below 8KB but definitely averaging 8KB everywhere international for me (256k package). Not a bad sign considering Sunday was definitely on a 2KB cap, yesterday was a 4KB cap and today 8KB. Maybe they're gradually raising the cap for some reason?

There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of by mere mortal men - Shakespeare

 

[loosecannon]

still not acceptable but better so far ... are they going to let us down again ??

 

[qdada]

eMule was downloading @ 14.4K when I woke up this morn. I'm on 128.

I have never seen that for quite a while. I know better not to get excited though.

 

[arf9999]

local 14KB/s, International 8KB/s capped.

MW128, Tower <b>60</b>(Northpark Plaza), Signal:16%,S-N-L: 7, BER: 45%

 

[Bishop]

Even Torrents seem to be running at 8KB now...

Cowtenna | 12% Signal | Tower 82 ( Mintek ) | 256K

 

[gripen]

Im capped to 6KB/sec at the moment. I thought it would be global for all 128s etc. What are they gonna say tomorrow in response to the capping??

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[CBL]

I was running a torrent last night from about 10pm,
it started at 7 KByte/sec.

Then at 1:26am the connection dropped (server room maintainance?)
Good Old MySignal (thanks ProAsm) reconnected at 01:52
and the torrent resumed at a *stunning* 24 KByte/sec
and stayed that way till about 06:00 []

Since then it has gradually dropped to about 8 KByte/sec
and falling...

= 256k pkg, tower 82(was12) Mintek =

 

[loosecannon]

im also "capped" shy of 6kBs woodmead tower (60) so it is possibal it is more universal ... with some lucky buggers ... sentech bandwidth seems to be like the lottery ... you can not predict you will ever win and know in the long run they will screw you ...

 

[Wireless2]

Slower than Yesterday !!! Which was crap !!!

 

[qdada]

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<br />im also "capped" shy of 6kBs woodmead tower (60) so it is possibal it is more universal ... with some lucky buggers ... sentech bandwidth seems to be like the lottery ... you can not predict you will ever win and know in the long run they will screw you ...

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Its good to know there is someone on the forum i share the tower with. The one other individual in Paulshof is not a member here. Is that your "work tower" or "home tower" loosecannon ?

 

[Doomy]

32K/s avg local lastnight. 8K/s intl. downloaded 260meg from ftp.is.co.za (suse linux patches) without hitch @ about 2 am this morning.
modem got disconnected. rebooted modem. rebooted server and then connection became what is states above. b4 this i was getting 1K/s local and intl

Doomy out.

 

[MrGray]

Back to 4KB cap - no wait - 4.5KB I think. So Sunday was 2KB, Monday 4KB, Tuesday morning 8KB and Tuesday evening 4.5KB. Why are they moving the cap around all the time? I'm beginning to get the sinking feeling that this IS their *FIXED* network and their solution is uncapped full local bandwidth but apply a shifting (very low) hard cap on international bandwidth. Why else move it around so much? If they were waiting for more international bandwidth why not just keep it fixed until it becomes available?

And why cap it at all? Why not share what's available between all comers, instead of implementing a hard cap? This suggests they still can't manage bandwidth properly and prevent a situation where some users randomly get huge amounts of bandwidth while others don't. The easy solution, therefore, is to hard cap everyone at the same rate.

Hope I'm wrong.

There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of by mere mortal men - Shakespeare

 

[gripen]

wouldnt put it past them..

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