Survey: April 2005 iBurst problems...

[slimothy]

only problem is i'm not throttled in the day ever since they got that 15MB pipe

 

[hexium]

Cant think how there could be overcrowding on my tower else I would not have had any good experiences to talk about

 

[Gatecrasher]

only problem is i'm not throttled in the day ever since they got that 15MB pipe

What I'm saying is that single threads are throttled, which is why the speed tests are so bad, same with single page web browing. But if you multithread, or do P2P with plenty of peers, you can still max out the connection.

 

[shane101]

Improved during the night?

The speed seems to have improved during the night. I started a Linux iso download yesterday afternoon which was running at 5.8KB/s when I went to bed last night at about 11:30. It was telling me it still had about 19 hours to go but when I woke up this morning it had completed and Telkom speed test this morning looks much better:

* Download time: 8.766 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 465.4 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 57 (kiloBytes/second)

Not quite as good as it shoud be, but definitely better than 5.8KB/s.

 

[jmn]

The worst week ever...

Pre-launch I had super speeds.
The week until the 8th I had few (acceptable) problems in retrospect. The week end was fine too.
From the 11th to 14th I had slow speeds during the day but reasonable at night.
From the 15th its been a disaster permanently, giving me < 150 kbps. ntop's highest reading is 67 kbps, showing samples every minute.

 

[jjtoymachine]

The speed seems to have improved during the night. I started a Linux iso download yesterday afternoon which was running at 5.8KB/s when I went to bed last night at about 11:30. It was telling me it still had about 19 hours to go but when I woke up this morning it had completed and Telkom speed test this morning looks much better:

* Download time: 8.766 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 465.4 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 57 (kiloBytes/second)

Not quite as good as it shoud be, but definitely better than 5.8KB/s.

It will go sh*t againg after 08:30!

 

[BicPen]

who vote's for WBS to Unlaunch Again???

 

[nocilah]

who vote's for WBS to Unlaunch Again???

ha ha ha ha damnit i'm in for sure!!!

 

[mfrench42]

Location : Craighall Park
Tower(s) : Randburg, Sandton, Rosebank, sometimes Northcliff, Bryanston
Modem : UTD
OS : Linux

Problem is the number of towers we can see. IP address changes frequently. Sometimes it changes every five minutes.

iBurst say they are working on this problem. It has also been suggested I create a "shield" to prevent the modem from seeing so many towers. The recent tower upgrade seems to have improved matters, but not fixed the problem.

Download speeds very variable. Ping times also inconsistent - when pinging the "tower" can have latencies of <100ms immediately followed by >1,000ms.

 

[Saint_DC]

Location: North Riding
Tower: Olivedale
Modem: UTD
OS Win XP SP 2
Disconnects every 2 minutes. Traffic light problem. Max 4 k speeds. Cant download my mail cause connection constantly drops and bigger files get re-started.

WBS HAS FAILED TO DELIVER! WHY SHOULD THEY CHANGE WITH THIS NEW THREAD?

But, we need to keep on trying!

 

[rebel]

I'm capped and my speeds are acceptable (12kb/s). No complaints here.

 

[Gatecrasher]

My only problem with the survey is making 64kbps the barrier. I, for one, haven't been experiencing speeds that low, but not much higher either. Maybe 128kbps would have been a better level. Then I would have checked this option.

 

[Nebula]

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)

Ditto

 

[Gatecrasher]

The reason I decided on 64kBits/s is that it is the throttled speed that WBS advertise when you have used all of your allocated bandwidth, 64kBits/s is also closer to that of a 56kBits/s dialup modem, and several iBursters (myself included) have experienced slower than dialup speeds since WBS officially launched iBurst.

That's okay. And with the last 2 options it should give a good (bad) picture anyway.

 

[Grimsqueaker]

Location: Plumstead Cape Town
Tower: Plumstead
Modem: UTD on LAN
OS: XP Pro SP2
Problem: Frequent disconnections (approx. once every 1/2 hour sometimes, not always), otherwise everything great, apart from fact CTN network is down they say they didn't know, they are looking at the problem......

 

[Bjorn]

And the reason why capped users are still getting full speeds: The bandwidth management software only limits single threads to 64kbps, not multithreads.

I agree my capped single thread speeds are right... but multithread...

 

[slimothy]

that might be true if you couldn't et single threads over 8KB/s, which you can

 

[guest2013-1]

ic, you have too much time on your hands....

 

[gigtech]

im so happy, i am geting such good speeds. however, they could be better.

 

[Raithlin]

I voted according to speeds I have had consistently since launch, but last night was simply flying. Dunno what happened, but I managed to max out my connection. First time I've ever done that from home...