Survey: April 2005 iBurst problems...

[nocilah]

My msn has been totally reliable excpet for last night but that seemed to be MSN side cuz when it came online I confirmed it with people in England. What happens with your MIRC and MSN?

What specs are you running? UTD? OS that kinda stuff. I am just curious.

 

[jjtoymachine]

i can see this thread is going to be anotherone of 'those threads'. Please leave your specs and details! We want see if there is any common ground and not you complaining what problems you have. There are about 50 other threads to complain in!

Do like this:
Location : XXXXX
Tower : XXXXXX
Modem type : XXXXXX
OS : XXXXXXX
Brief desc of problem : XXXXXX

 

[nocilah]

i can see this thread is going to be anotherone of 'those threads'. Please leave your specs and details! We want see if there is any common ground and not you complaining what problems you have. There are about 50 other threads to complain in!

Do like this:
Location : XXXXX
Tower : XXXXXX
OS : XXXXXXX
Brief desc of problem : XXXXXX

thanks joymachine

 

[hexium]

Location: Montana (dark green)
Tower: Wonderboom
OS: WinXP SP2
Problems: SSL & SSH not working during working hours (these are the ones I know of)

 

[BicPen]

Location : Eldoraigne ext3
Tower : swarkop/centurion
UTD : Desktop, connected to switch, 5 green lights
OS : WinXP sp1
Problem : IRC keeps disconnecting randomly,sometimes i cant stay connected for 5mins other times up to 30mins

 

[Bishop]

Location : Douglasdale
Tower : Bryanston
UTD : Desktop, 5 green lights
OS : WinXP sp1
Problem : MSN keeps disconnecting randomly, MMORPGs ( World of Warcraft, City of Heroes ) unplayable since last week, Impossible to download the WOW patches through P2P

 

[Raithlin]

Location : Noordwyk (In the dip)
Tower : Midrand
Modem type : UTD
OS : WinXP SP2
Speed increased last night, can't comment during the day.

 

[Crash]

Location: Honeydew Ridge (Next door to Sentech Satellite Park)
Tower: LOS to 3 Towers, But probably Olivedale / North Riding
Modem Type: UTD
OS: Mandrake 10
90% of the time speed is good. Every so often speeds grind to a halt and resetting the modem normally sorts it out.

 

[guest2013-1]

Location : Constantia Kloof
Tower : Northcliff (direct los of Northcliff, Flora centre and 1km away from the Roodepoort tower)
Modem : UTD
OS : Windows XP SP2

IRC Disconnects, MSN doesn't want to connect, speeds and ping is seriously lacking from when it did work, and the fact I can't p2p or ssh or vpn like I used to is costing me money. No, I am not an illegal DVD maker downloading and writing them to sell on the street, I am using this connection for BUSINESS.

During the day I'm in Woodmead, the connection is even poorer!

 

[GuRu]

Location : LittleFalls
Tower : Northcliff - maybe Roodepoort
Modem type : UTD
OS : XP SP2 Firewall/ DU meter
Brief desc of problem : speed hardly ever get 800 kilobits/second mostly speed of 56k modem very erratic

Download time: 8.302 seconds
Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
Estimated line speed: 491.4 (kilobits/second)
Estimated line speed: 60.2 (kiloBytes/second)

 

[swordfish1]

Location : Roosevelt Park
Tower: Northcliff (probably)
Modem: UTD / USB
OS: WIn 2K

Seems a bit slowish day time, but I am not at home so I can't tell exactly, night time is perfect.

I still have problems with some protocols: eDonkey and ICQ are my biggest problem!

 

[Bjorn]

Location : Fourways
Tower : Indaba (approx 2km, good line of sight)
Modem type : UTD Ethernet
OS : XP sp2
Brief desc of problem : has been slow in the day seems better today tho

 

[jjtoymachine]

Your line speed is approximately 711.4 Kbps or 87.2 kBytes/sec

Everone else getting good speeds today?

 

[patrick123]

From Telkom's site:
Estimated line speed: 396.3 (kilobits/second)
Estimated line speed: 48.6 (kiloBytes/second)

Not fantastic, but I can live with that, as long as it stays consistent.

 

[Bjorn]

Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:

* Download time: 5.406 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 754.7 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 92.5 (kiloBytes/second)

Fine by me..

 

[P0tenc]

Location: PTA
Tower: Sunny Side
OS: Xp SP2
UTD / Lan 100% signal

Since early last week I've been having major issues. Msn messenger keeps disconnecting and it's the same with mirc and world of warcraft online. P2P does'nt budge.

 

[Gatecrasher]

but it shows that it can only be a bandwidth limitation to UUNET and not a network problem).

This is true.

Ping times are amazingly fast... you just can't receive any data at those speeds. There is a very noticeable lag on surfing, but if you ping any particular site it is very fast and consistent. The network is as healthy as can be.

I'm certain the lack of speed is from throttling. ie Bandwidth Management. And corrupt bandwidth management at that. I've only done 1.3GB this month. I just got a whopping 86kbps on the Telkom Test. For the past months I never got less then 1000kbps.

This truly stinks.

 

[jmn]

I used to get good speeds always, then good speeds at night but pathetic during the day for the past week, now just pathetic always:

* Download time: 48.349 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 84.4 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 10.3 (kiloBytes/second)

BTW, I went over the first 1 GB of my monthly 3 GB this afternoon, but speed was slow even before that so I'm not throttled for exceeding 1 GB...

Just mailed WBS (once again...) about this

 

[Jakes]

Download time: 6.36 seconds
Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
Estimated line speed: 641.5 (kilobits/second)
Estimated line speed: 78.6 (kiloBytes/second)

 

[Jerry]

Download time: 23.77 seconds
Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
Estimated line speed: 171.6 (kilobits/second)
Estimated line speed: 21 (kiloBytes/second)

Well, it doesn't seem to be getting any better, does it?