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Hi,
Anyone else notice and improvment of speeds tonight ?
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Just on browsing, however my p2p apps are suffering but the browsisng seems to have speeded up, seems like sentech has got there netcaches up and working
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The SRT (Standard Rodent Test) says:
--22:36:10-- http://tucows.is.co.za/files4/DCPlusPlus-0.241.exe
=> `DCPlusPlus-0.241.exe.27'
Resolving tucows.is.co.za... done.
Connecting to tucows.is.co.za[196.4.160.77]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2,044,011 [application/octet-stream]
5% [=> ] 108,076 4.54K/s ETA 06:56
So, no. Same ****. Different post.
<center><h6> MyWireless <s>Hacks</s> Tweaks & Tech Info || Have you checked the fawking FAQ? <br /> <font color="red">Tired of Sentech's bad service? Want to compare speeds? We at least listen...</font id="red"></h6></center>
--22:36:10-- http://tucows.is.co.za/files4/DCPlusPlus-0.241.exe
=> `DCPlusPlus-0.241.exe.27'
Resolving tucows.is.co.za... done.
Connecting to tucows.is.co.za[196.4.160.77]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2,044,011 [application/octet-stream]
5% [=> ] 108,076 4.54K/s ETA 06:56
So, no. Same ****. Different post.
<center><h6> MyWireless <s>Hacks</s> Tweaks & Tech Info || Have you checked the fawking FAQ? <br /> <font color="red">Tired of Sentech's bad service? Want to compare speeds? We at least listen...</font id="red"></h6></center>
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Rodent will you run the same test on tucows.saix.net
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--23:06:23-- http://tucows.saix.net/files4/DCPlusPlus-0.241.exe
=> `DCPlusPlus-0.241.exe.30'
Resolving tucows.saix.net... done.
Connecting to tucows.saix.net[196.25.240.156]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2,044,011 [application/octet-stream]
1% [ ] 39,122 1.47K/s ETA 22:08
<h4>Same **** (worse in fact), different tucows mirror.</h4>
<center><h6> MyWireless <s>Hacks</s> Tweaks & Tech Info || Have you checked the fawking FAQ? <br /> <font color="red">Tired of Sentech's bad service? Want to compare speeds? We at least listen...</font id="red"></h6></center>
=> `DCPlusPlus-0.241.exe.30'
Resolving tucows.saix.net... done.
Connecting to tucows.saix.net[196.25.240.156]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2,044,011 [application/octet-stream]
1% [ ] 39,122 1.47K/s ETA 22:08
<h4>Same **** (worse in fact), different tucows mirror.</h4>
<center><h6> MyWireless <s>Hacks</s> Tweaks & Tech Info || Have you checked the fawking FAQ? <br /> <font color="red">Tired of Sentech's bad service? Want to compare speeds? We at least listen...</font id="red"></h6></center>
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I might be bullsh1tting myself, but I got the idea that browsing was a bit better - pages just loading a bit quicker than usual, but it is difficult to quantify. But downloading is about the same, between 4 - 5 KB/s on 128kb package. Overall still a sh1tty service.
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call me stupid but how do I do the SRT? Im NOT using linux. I would like to do some tests during avg time and times where there is some free bandwidth (midnight to 10am some days)
The SRT tests single thread performance right? From what I was told, the miraculous *fix* is going to REDUCE the bandwidth for each thread/connection. Figure that one out.
The SRT tests single thread performance right? From what I was told, the miraculous *fix* is going to REDUCE the bandwidth for each thread/connection. Figure that one out.
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SRT test is single threaded, as is the real-world situation when you are simply browsing, or surfing the net, as a NORMAL NON-POWER (not on the baddie list) user would do.
I do the SRT with wget, http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/wgetwin.html
<center><h6> MyWireless <s>Hacks</s> Tweaks & Tech Info || Have you checked the fawking FAQ? <br /> <font color="red">Tired of Sentech's bad service? Want to compare speeds? We at least listen...</font id="red"></h6></center>
I do the SRT with wget, http://www.interlog.com/~tcharron/wgetwin.html
<center><h6> MyWireless <s>Hacks</s> Tweaks & Tech Info || Have you checked the fawking FAQ? <br /> <font color="red">Tired of Sentech's bad service? Want to compare speeds? We at least listen...</font id="red"></h6></center>
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by greedyflyza</i>
<br />call me stupid but how do I do the SRT? Im NOT using linux.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
wget is available for Win32 too. I usually install it with UnixUtils (seem to be here now: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/), in which one also gets other 'old favourites' like tar, gzip, bzip2 etc.
<br />call me stupid but how do I do the SRT? Im NOT using linux.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
wget is available for Win32 too. I usually install it with UnixUtils (seem to be here now: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/), in which one also gets other 'old favourites' like tar, gzip, bzip2 etc.
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Dean_Henstock</i>
<br />Anyone else notice and improvment of speeds tonight ?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
No specific improvement tonight, but the last several days I do seem to be able to manage *average* throughput of 7 kB/s up to about 10 kB/s sometimes, which is not bad, certainly better than the sub-dialup speeds I was getting consistently for the +/- two months prior to that. The average throughput isn't too bad, but it fluctuates wildly on smaller timescales, e.g. it will drop as low as 2/3 kB/s for 10 seconds or so, then go up to 10 or 12 kB/s for 10 seconds or so, then drop to say 8, and so on - in fact, it's *never* stable, not even for a whole minute - it's continually fluctuating. But I have been able to average even +/- 9 kB/s on a single-threaded wget download (Firefox setup, so almost certainly from the proxy). Right now I'm getting about 6 kB/s average. (In Pta).
It isn't what it was when I signed up though; I remember the first month or so I got my max +/- 15kB/s *all the time* .. *sigh*.
<br />Anyone else notice and improvment of speeds tonight ?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
No specific improvement tonight, but the last several days I do seem to be able to manage *average* throughput of 7 kB/s up to about 10 kB/s sometimes, which is not bad, certainly better than the sub-dialup speeds I was getting consistently for the +/- two months prior to that. The average throughput isn't too bad, but it fluctuates wildly on smaller timescales, e.g. it will drop as low as 2/3 kB/s for 10 seconds or so, then go up to 10 or 12 kB/s for 10 seconds or so, then drop to say 8, and so on - in fact, it's *never* stable, not even for a whole minute - it's continually fluctuating. But I have been able to average even +/- 9 kB/s on a single-threaded wget download (Firefox setup, so almost certainly from the proxy). Right now I'm getting about 6 kB/s average. (In Pta).
It isn't what it was when I signed up though; I remember the first month or so I got my max +/- 15kB/s *all the time* .. *sigh*.
speed? what speed!? it's fcking non-existant! i was getting 11000ms pings with 75% packet loss last night... yes, you read right... fcking pathetic!
end of August, I'm switching over to ADSL - better the devil you know and all that shyte... cap or no cap, ADSL is 5000 better than this crap!
<hr noshade size="1"><font size="1"><i><div align="right"><font color="red">one day we will all look back at this... laugh nervously... and change the subject...</font id="red">
tower82.randparkridge.jhb|13-21% signal|256k package, running at 0.3 - 3k/s
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end of August, I'm switching over to ADSL - better the devil you know and all that shyte... cap or no cap, ADSL is 5000 better than this crap!
<hr noshade size="1"><font size="1"><i><div align="right"><font color="red">one day we will all look back at this... laugh nervously... and change the subject...</font id="red">
tower82.randparkridge.jhb|13-21% signal|256k package, running at 0.3 - 3k/s
</div id="right"></i></font id="size1">Some speeds have definately improved for me...
Sentech speed test...
Your download speed is: 12 KBps, or 96.01 Kbps
The test took 44.578 seconds to complete
Browsing is definately faster.
However, an ftp from IS is only running at 4.5 kB/s.
What I have at the moment is almost matching my expectations of what I would expect from a 128 k package. Looks like they are starting to manage bandwidth based on ports.
Headend
Tower: Mintek (82 was 12) - Signal: 19% - Firmware: 4.2.1.8 - 128k - Smoothwall and PPPoE
Sentech speed test...
Your download speed is: 12 KBps, or 96.01 Kbps
The test took 44.578 seconds to complete
Browsing is definately faster.
However, an ftp from IS is only running at 4.5 kB/s.
What I have at the moment is almost matching my expectations of what I would expect from a 128 k package. Looks like they are starting to manage bandwidth based on ports.
Headend
Tower: Mintek (82 was 12) - Signal: 19% - Firmware: 4.2.1.8 - 128k - Smoothwall and PPPoE
pfft...
and you're on tower 12 as well? right. again: flabbergasted!
<hr noshade size="1"><font size="1"><i><div align="right"><font color="red">one day we will all look back at this... laugh nervously... and change the subject...</font id="red">
tower82.randparkridge.jhb|13-21% signal|256k package, running at 0.3 - 3k/s</div id="right"></i></font id="size1">
and you're on tower 12 as well? right. again: flabbergasted!
<hr noshade size="1"><font size="1"><i><div align="right"><font color="red">one day we will all look back at this... laugh nervously... and change the subject...</font id="red">
tower82.randparkridge.jhb|13-21% signal|256k package, running at 0.3 - 3k/s
</div id="right"></i></font id="size1">hmmm... not sure, I'll have to check tonite...
<hr noshade size="1"><font size="1"><i><div align="right"><font color="red">one day we will all look back at this... laugh nervously... and change the subject...</font id="red">
tower82.randparkridge.jhb|13-21% signal|256k package, running at 0.3 - 3k/s</div id="right"></i></font id="size1">
<hr noshade size="1"><font size="1"><i><div align="right"><font color="red">one day we will all look back at this... laugh nervously... and change the subject...</font id="red">
tower82.randparkridge.jhb|13-21% signal|256k package, running at 0.3 - 3k/s
</div id="right"></i></font id="size1"><blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Headend</i>
<br />Some speeds have definately improved for me...
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What I have at the moment is almost matching my expectations of what I would expect from a 128 k package.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
My speeds do seem to have improved the last couple weeks or so. Getting roughly what I'd expect from the product at the moment, not ideal but probably realistic: about 9 - 11kB/s on average. This is definitely an improvement since mid-June, from which I had been averaging about 4 - 5 kB/s. Tower = La Montagne. Not going to start drawing any conclusions yet until at least the end of the month though, especially as some users seem to say their speeds are now worse. (Had an actually decent call from Sentech support this morning, asking if I'd seen an improvement during the last two weeks, which I have, so I told him yes (also told him that I am aware that this is not the case for everyone, that some users are still having problems), he said basically yes he knows, then he said they will keep my ticket open until the end of the month and I should keep monitoring the speeds.)
<br />Some speeds have definately improved for me...
...
What I have at the moment is almost matching my expectations of what I would expect from a 128 k package.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
My speeds do seem to have improved the last couple weeks or so. Getting roughly what I'd expect from the product at the moment, not ideal but probably realistic: about 9 - 11kB/s on average. This is definitely an improvement since mid-June, from which I had been averaging about 4 - 5 kB/s. Tower = La Montagne. Not going to start drawing any conclusions yet until at least the end of the month though, especially as some users seem to say their speeds are now worse. (Had an actually decent call from Sentech support this morning, asking if I'd seen an improvement during the last two weeks, which I have, so I told him yes (also told him that I am aware that this is not the case for everyone, that some users are still having problems), he said basically yes he knows, then he said they will keep my ticket open until the end of the month and I should keep monitoring the speeds.)