Speeds ?

[Kai]

i haven't cancelled yet regard... waiting to see what happens tomorrow... then I'll cancel...

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tower82(mintek).randparkridge.jhb|sig:9%|node:3|snl:0%|ber:28%|256k</div id="right"></i></font id="size1">

 

[nonroker]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by garp</i>
<br />Seem to have reverted to the original situation on the 256kb package where you got max 4KB on singlethread d/l's and 20KB plus on multithread d/l's. My connection feels like it has reverted to exactly where it was prior to the "upgrades" that were supposed to affect only 256kb users. It's definitely better than it has been over the last week while they were doing the supposed "upgrades", but is no better than it was prior to that.

There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of by mere mortal men - Shakespeare
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Nope..I'm still getting ass-rammed by the 2KB/s cap on intl traffic for 256K users

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256k with 21k-intl-128k-local-hardcap(tm) technology

 

[GougedEye]

I'm still waiting for 1 September. For me that was always the date. Not too sure where the 25th came from. But anyhow, 1 Sept just feels right what with it officially Spring and all.


Don't take this for a sign of acceptance. 1 Sept is deffinitely TacNuke time!

 

[GougedEye]

Kai,

You mentioned you were going to test CoH on a friends ADSL. Did you get a chance to do this?

 

[dorris]

I haven had much need for complaining, only a few days recently have things gone down, but I now decided to do the SRT to see if maybe I simply don realise how bad the situation is.
Most users will hate me for posting this and making you jealous, but here goes.
All results are on a 128K connection with 7% signal

wget http://tucows.is.co.za/files4/DCPlusPlus-0.241.exe
--11:32:11-- http://tucows.is.co.za/files4/DCPlusPlus-0.241.exe
=&gt; `DCPlusPlus-0.241.exe'
Resolving tucows.is.co.za... 196.4.160.77
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]

100%[====================================&gt;] 2,044,011 <b> 12.25K/s</b> ETA 00:00

11:35:21 <b>(10.52 KB/s)</b> - `DCPlusPlus-0.241.exe' saved [2044011/2044011]


I have been waiting for that slow token , but shes never come. YAY for me!!!

 

[regardtv]

the 25th/26th comes from the post on Sentech's forum indicating that they expect all testing/upgrading on the 256K packages to be completed by the 25th of August.

<hr noshade size="1"><font size="1"><div align="right">8:00 Thursday 26 August 2004 is <font color="red">D-Day</font id="red">....
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[saintm]

Oh this is <s>good</s> news. From their forum:

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">
Upgrade on the MyWireless Network: 25 August

As indicated in the notice posted on 18th August 2004 we have implemented certain upgrades on the MyWireless 256 package and will implement similar upgrades on the MyWireless 128 and 512 products.

These upgrades will commence from 13h00 Wednesday 25th August 2004 and are expected to be completed by Monday 30th August 2004.

Any other upgrades or changes relating to these products will be posted on this bulletin board prior to being implemented.

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From what I have seen on the forums, the 256k upgrade has resulted in serious degradation for the 256k users. My poor little 128k connection is going to die a terrible, terrible death at the hands of these monsters! Can't we get them arrested for murder of an innocent little connection? I mean, it had such high hopes and look at what is going to happen to it!

Monsters!


&lt;* insert death march music here *&gt;



Menlo Park Tower

 

[noswal]

perhaps they meant to write "These <i>degrades</i> will commence from ...."

_________________________________________________________________________
No more catenna, now its a custenna

 

[noswal]

And FWIW before I logged on this afternoon mysignal showed the signal rapidly jumping from 8% to 13% with snl 0 to 6

I dont know if this is a good sign or a bad sign, or just a sign - from the virtual gods.



_________________________________________________________________________
No more catenna, now its a custenna

 

[Kai]

GougedEye - nope, not yet... will go sometime soon - depending on what happens on the 26th.

<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(mintek).randparkridge.jhb|sig:9%|node:3|snl:0%|ber:28%|256k</div id="right"></i></font id="size1">

 

[GougedEye]

Cool thanks Kai.

Looks like I'm going to need it. As of yesterday my poor little 128 seems to have lost whatever bandwidth it used to have. Have to admit though, pings are consitantly much better. Sill on the high side, but I just did my first ever 0% loss.

Ping statistics for 66.18.65.115:
Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 100, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 56ms, Maximum = 697ms, Average = 171ms

 

[MrGray]

OMG!!! So they have actually completed the 256Kb upgrade and I am getting the worst bandwidth now that I have ever had - this is fscking idiotic. Help! These ppl are clearly mad. Please undo the upgrade - my connection at least sometimes ran at 128kbps before they started. How am I supposed to get anything done online at 2KB??

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

 

[loosecannon]

looks like policing at 1.5kBs

surely the experts from ovcerseas must be laughing at this pathetic state of affairs

25600K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 69% 1.51 KB/s
25650K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 69% 1.31 KB/s
25700K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 69% 1.46 KB/s
25750K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 69% 635.06 B/s
25800K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 69% 594.97 B/s
25850K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 69% 1.52 KB/s
25900K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 69% 1.14 KB/s
25950K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 70% 1.57 KB/s
26000K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 70% 1.49 KB/s

 

[Wireless2]

Have tried everything and no way can I get better than 2.5KB/s on 256
On BOTH my packages/modems

This is totally pathetic had 29 KB/s from day 1 till they started these "upgrades"

Bas**rds

 

[aborg]

My speed today with a well-seeded torrent running through port 80:
256k package.

Overall 25 August 2004

Hour Download (MB) Upload (MB)

00 - 01 7.30 5.96
01 - 02 6.71 3.63
02 - 03 7.92 .99
03 - 04 8.29 2.12
04 - 05 8.89 2.55
05 - 06 9.85 .77
06 - 07 8.25 .03
07 - 08 6.29 3.95
08 - 09 5.15 5.87
09 - 10 4.78 3.68
10 - 11 4.68 4.10
11 - 12 4.75 3.57
12 - 13 5.17 4.20
13 - 14 4.65 3.90
14 - 15 4.06 5.53
15 - 16 3.04 1.88
16 - 17 4.33 3.82
17 - 18 3.74 1.84
18 - 19 9.14 1.88
19 - 20 1.76 .04

Total 118.76 60.30

Better be 10 times better tomorrow - I'm on the verge of cancelling. [xx(]

 

[Scarface]

Well, their "finetuning" has really stuffed up International Bowsing...doing the Rodent test, a local test from Tucows showed this:

linux:~ # wget http://tucows.is.co.za/files4/DCPlusPlus-0.241.exe
--21:35:10-- http://tucows.is.co.za/files4/DCPlusPlus-0.241.exe
=&gt; `DCPlusPlus-0.241.exe'
Resolving tucows.is.co.za... 196.4.160.77
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]

100%[====================================&gt;] 2,044,011 14.39K/s ETA 00:00

21:37:22 (15.42 KB/s) - `DCPlusPlus-0.241.exe' saved [2044011/2044011]

Not too bad but not too good on a 256K package.


Now, the same test from a mirror in New York:

linux:~ # wget http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/dcplusplus/DCPlusPlus-0.4032.exe
--22:04:04-- http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/dcplusplus/DCPlusPlus-0.4032.exe
=&gt; `DCPlusPlus-0.4032.exe'
Resolving voxel.dl.sourceforge.net... 69.9.164.2
Connecting to voxel.dl.sourceforge.net[69.9.164.2]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2,051,527 [application/octet-stream]

100%[====================================&gt;] 2,051,527 1.47K/s ETA 00:00

22:57:48 (637.48 B/s) - `DCPlusPlus-0.4032.exe' saved [2051527/2051527]


This is still the problem - it obviously indicates total incompetence and I think I am going to threaten them with an Attorney, we are simply being used as lab rats while the are learning Networking 104.

Anyone else get similar results?

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Not so famous last words -"Hold my dop and check this move..."

 

[aborg]

My requirement is, local at least 28-30 KB/s on 256k package and intl at least 24-26 KB/s from decent servers otherwise it doesn't make sense to have a 256k package. If I am limited to 16 KB/s on local I can just as well get a 128k package. Sentech must make provison for downgrading your service - if that would help. []

 

[loosecannon]

just sent through notification that i will be canceling at a time of my choosing i dont hold much hope these idiots can do any thing about it now ...

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">
<i>sent a graph showing BW droping from a acceptable 12KB/s to 1.5KB/s suddenly at 15:00</i>
Freq. Speed &lt;Unknown&gt; Tower: 2530000, 7.68Mcps, 15, 60
Model ID: Phase 1(c)
Firmware Version: 4.2.1.1 / A1 (2.0) / A2 (2.0); 4.2.1.1
IMEI Number: 351152000140790
SP Status Code Name: 1,2,"00000"
Signal Strength % RSCP ISCP: 17,99,-92,-98,4
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here is the reply with the reply to it
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">
you a real dumb pratt arnt you ...

that is the firmware as supplied buy you with the modem i am not prepared to updrade it as i
intend to cancel with sentech should the service not improve chating to others on www.myadsl.co.za i am aware that this is not the most optimal firmware and could experiance higher latancy/packet loss howevwer there has yet to be a version that resolves this issue to you talking out the wrong end of your anatomy ...

the problem sudenly appeared at +/- 15:00 i want a detailed explination ASAP

-----Original Message-----
From: Support account [mailto:support@sentechsa.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 4:50 PM
To: Gregory Hinton Nietsky
Subject: Re: I demand a explination of this immeadiately


Good Day Gregory,

Looking at the below figures the first thing that I notice
is that you are running an older firmware version which
could very well be the cause of your problems.

Please use the Sentech software and on the "Tools" tab
select "Download and install upgrade"

This may rectify your problems. Please let us know if this
resolves your issues or not.

Regards
Tristan
Sentech Support
0860 736 832
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[malec]

WTF??!!??

A minute ago I downloaded at 200 bytes/sec, can't browse, nothing!! Now ...

--23:38:04-- http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/dcplusplus/DCPlusPlus-0.4032.exe
=&gt; `DCPlusPlus-0.4032.exe.2'
Resolving voxel.dl.sourceforge.net... done.
Connecting to voxel.dl.sourceforge.net[69.9.164.2]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 2,051,527 [application/octet-stream]

16% [=========&gt; ] 328,419 13.25K/s ETA 02:06


browsing still sucks though ...

EDIT: I'm 128K btw
Seems like they fscked up latency as well

PING www.sentech.co.za (66.18.65.115): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 66.18.65.115: icmp_seq=0 ttl=248 time=330.616 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.115: icmp_seq=1 ttl=248 time=590.349 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.115: icmp_seq=2 ttl=248 time=1031.97 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.115: icmp_seq=3 ttl=248 time=1131.1 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.115: icmp_seq=4 ttl=248 time=1067.85 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.115: icmp_seq=5 ttl=248 time=1132.71 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.115: icmp_seq=6 ttl=248 time=1601.2 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.115: icmp_seq=7 ttl=248 time=1868.24 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.115: icmp_seq=8 ttl=248 time=1019.67 ms
64 bytes from 66.18.65.115: icmp_seq=9 ttl=248 time=1422.71 ms

--- www.sentech.co.za ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 330.616/1119.64/1868.24 ms

 

[arf9999]

Well as the 128 users get "upgraded" I started running some tests.

Last night I had good P2P bw (14KB/s) and using Getright I could get 8K+ on a download from the US.

Tonight P2P is gone...maximum 1.5KB/s. It seems as if International BW is seriously restricted.

Here are some speed test results:


<b>Local Speed tests:</b>

Telkom Test:
* Download time: 31.797 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 128.3 (kilobits/second)[]
* Estimated line speed: 15.7 (kiloBytes/second)

Sentech Speed Test
Your download speed is: 13.03 KBps, or 104.27 Kbps
The test took 41.047 seconds to complete

Your upload speed is: 5.83 KBps, or 46.67 Kbps
The test took 340.406 seconds to complete

Rodent's speed test -Error: 404 page not found for meter.php ????

MyADSL speed test - no response, hangs (bwmeter shows minimum activity - maybe 1KB/s)

Local text based speed test(MyADSL):
Download size in thousands of bytes: 50
Throughput in Kilobits per Second: 114.5
Throughput in Kilobytes per Second: 14

SRT (from saix): 14.7KB/S with a single thread
SRT (from saix): 14.2KB/s with 4 threads (Getright)


<b>International speed tests:</b>

Stanford WEB100:
TCP/Web100 Network Diagnostic Tool v5.2.1e

running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 32.51Kb/s
running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 5.63kb/s
Your PC is connected to a Dial-up Modem[]
Information: Other network traffic is congesting the link.

UK ADSL Guide test...after 10 minutes shows error (BW Meter shows 1KB/s down and 6KB/s up)

International text based speed test(MyADSL):
Download size in thousands of bytes: 50
Throughput in Kilobits per Second: 128.6
Throughput in Kilobytes per Second: 15.8

International SRT: From http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/dcplusplus/DCPlusPlus-0.4032.exe
Single thread download: 13KB/s (But I think this must be cached somewhere...transparent proxy?)
Multi thread download (4 threads using Getright): 7.5KB/S



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