Stupid iBurst Questions

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I am currently waiting for iBurst to phone me and let me know when I can come collect my stufff from them, but I have a few questions.

1. Should I even bother getting iBurst? Seems like another Sentech

2. If I do get it does the modem have signal lights? The reason why I am asking is because right now I live in Sunninghill but will be moving to my new place in Kyalami in April. Would I be able to test the singal just by taking the modem through to the new house?

3. USB or Ethernet? Which one is better or does it not really matter?

thanks
 
1. When it is good, it is very, very good, but when it is bad it is rotten. You'll know in 7 days.

2. Yes it does, but not sure that the lights are too reliable unless you are actually connected. So you'd have to take your PC with you too.

3. Ethernet is driver and hassle free, and less demainding of system resources. Although there shouldn't be much difference in performance provided your USB hub is well configured.
 
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1) Look around and decide for yourself. It's still pre-launch, so the jury is still out IMO.

2) The desktop terminal has lights, but they aren't always directly related to performance.

3) No real difference. USB comes with a nice tray app, while ethernet allows for some real distance between PC and terminal, should it be required.
 
vowthorn said:
I am currently waiting for iBurst to phone me and let me know when I can come collect my stufff from them, but I have a few questions.

1. Should I even bother getting iBurst? Seems like another Sentech

2. If I do get it does the modem have signal lights? The reason why I am asking is because right now I live in Sunninghill but will be moving to my new place in Kyalami in April. Would I be able to test the singal just by taking the modem through to the new house?

3. USB or Ethernet? Which one is better or does it not really matter?

thanks
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Firstly: LOL VT on #1 - I really don't have an answer on that point...

#2: The UTD (Desktop modem) has signal strength leds, as to how accurate they are...dunno. IMO, those leds only reflect the download signal strength, and in my specific case I have major problems with upload signal strength via Bryanston base-station, the same is probably true with Northcliff-bs. It is not sufficient to test signal strength without actually being connected, you need an active connection to your base-station to make a judgement on the signal strength.

#3: If you are getting the UTD then I would advise that you start out on USB bcos the iBurst systray app that gives a bunch of info including signal strength & FER (Frame Error Rate) only works with a USB attached UTD, I don't know about the UTC (PCMCIA/PCCard) though.

Try USB 1st - get as good a signal as possible & a modem placement that gives the least FER%, then attach via ethernet (which allows your PC to be some distance from the UTD on ethernet).

Hope that helps.
 
vowthorn said:
With Sentech I would get about 14KB/s local and 4.7KB/s International and lots of shaping on P2P.
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Well as company performance goes, the Iburst=Sentech proposition is believable.

But for technology & package performance, Iburst<>Sentech.

With Iburst you will get >100KB/s local and >30KB/s International for single threads. 120-130KB/s for both local and international for multithreads. That is providing you have a good signal and a good BS. In my experience, no shaping on P2P..... yet.
 
vowthorn said:
thanks...

anyone able to answer question 1?

With Sentech I would get about 14KB/s local and 4.7KB/s International and lots of shaping on P2P.
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I am able to answer that one

*clears his throat*

if you compare iburst's sh1tty service (at times) with Sentech, iburst whoops Sentech's ass.

Period.... with or without tampons and wing-a-ling-dings
 
well, you need a reason to want to kill yourself, and these days we have iburst/sentech and telkom.... pick your poison
 
You can pull 40 gigs a month with 128k ISDN for around R560 (only during callmore)
It's going to cost you around R2900 to pull the same amount of data with an ADSL line running at 128k, but imagine for a second you are able to pull 147gig a month with ADSL (which technically you could) it's going to cost you around R19000. Around the same price of a 512k diginet line (if I am not mistaken)

So, seeing as I can do math (barely)... why haven't anyone seen this in the beginning? (or did they?)

What am I talking about? Oh nothing, just Telkom ensuring that diginet lines will still be used in future.

Their poepolle is going WEEKWEEKWEEKWEEK now that all these uncapped things are happening. And their stalling tactics they're using on UUNET who requested an upgrade a few weeks ago is fact that they don't play nice.

Shame....
 
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