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We may have not been particularily impressed with MyWireless over the past month and a half or so, but I will say one thing: I do believe things are improving.

It seems to have started around Thursday morning, and not only are the signal issues stabilizing (no more clambouring in the roof to adjust the antenna), but the speeds are improving. I usually download from web sites at 8kB/s, this has improved to 14kB/s. P2P programs are similar, but there has been an improvement. Speeds still fluctuate on P2P, but thats a given [:)] Browsing seems a bit more zippy, too, even while downloading stuff.

Connections rarely drop (uptime was almost 2 weeks, but today I turned it all off to give it a break), and when they do I am reconnected with no hassle (usually without even noticing as the system just redials automatically).

My details: Tower [82] Honeydew/Radiokop, 10% signal. Running on the ethernet cable, on a Smoothwall firewall (Linux).


EDIT: In true sentech fashion, right after thinking to myself "wow it's working nicely for a change", the signal disappeared from my house. It was gone from 15:00 to about 20:00... thankfully, it's back. The call centre people told me to put the modem on a tray and walk around with it.
 
Forum is very quite this weekend.

Must be a good sign? Everybody downloading the latest pr0n releases no doubt [8D]
 
That usually happens when things come right. People dont like to read good news or dont like posting good news for some reason. Perhaps those with problems will consider it bragging..
 
Yes you are right: I have been on the same connection since Wednesday afternoon. That is the longest uptime for the last 30 days, and the second longest since end of Feb. Being able to sustain a solid conection is very nice!!! :-)

My ping times have gone up from around ~250ms on Wednesday to ~350ms today... which is strange, but not an issue...

My download speed has not improved.
 
Hardly:

Code: 
C:\>iperf -w 130k -c legends.tribes2.za.net -t 20 -p 5001
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to legends.tribes2.za.net, TCP port 5001
TCP window size:  130 KByte
------------------------------------------------------------
[1928] local 192.168.0.10 port 4448 connected with 66.45.227.171 port 5001
[ ID] Interval       Transfer     Bandwidth
[1928]  0.0-51.2 sec   272 KBytes  43.5 Kbits/sec

And ...
Code: 
fire:~# wget ftp://ftp.saix.net/pub2/linux/distributions/debian/ls-lR.gz
--08:47:26--  ftp://ftp.saix.net/pub2/linux/distributions/debian/ls-lR.gz
           => `ls-lR.gz.2'
Resolving ftp.saix.net... done.
Connecting to ftp.saix.net[196.25.240.137]:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD /pub2/linux/distributions/debian ... done.
==> PORT ... done.    ==> RETR ls-lR.gz ... done.
Length: 2,568,771 (unauthoritative)

57% [==========================>                     ] 1,475,584      7.01K/s    ETA 02:32


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<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 />That usually happens when things come right. People dont like to read good news or dont like posting good news for some reason. Perhaps those with problems will consider it bragging..
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Amen.
 
Well I like to read good news.

Not yet on wireless but as soon as they bring the waves to me, I will be! Hpoefully if things keep on improing i will also visit this board once every month as appose to once a day!!!
 
Hi All

Can I take it that the speed issues has been resolved now or what?

Thx for the feedback.

Guz
 
Guztro : This is Sentech we are dealing with here, before jumping to conclusions i'd suggest that u wait until people have reported a longer period of uptime as well as an improvement / stabilization across the network with regards to speeds

[;)]

Personally i lack faith in Sentech and the manner in which they conduct their affairs. I really hope things are going to improve in the near future, if for no other reason than i have 21 months to ride on my contract

BTW, my P2P speeds do seem to be nippier since friday... who knows how long it will last



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Things might be a *bit* better, but all is not well in Amsterdam....however that stupid saying goes. Although I am pretty sure all is not *well* in Amsterdam....anyhoo

Download speeds are always hard to measure depending on Overall international traffic, the Site your downloading from Traffic etc. Also your Download Manager makes things awkward sometimes. But yes I was able to Download at 9kbs this weekend using Getright and Accelerated Download 4X, from Avault.com. I was also able to ping Avault.com with a 6% Packet Loss. (Wich I guess isnt too bad)

In the past however (before my life crumbled infront of my eyes and I witnessed the mighty sentech become what it is now). I could download 20-27kbs no problem using Getright + X4 accel. No Packet Loss whatsoever to any international Site...I think I recall a 2% PL to a international site once, in the glory days.

**PL is extremely important to me, as I play MORPG's. IF you loose Packets in a MORPG, you miss whats happening in the game, you simply miss things, and this sucks major balls. It is better Seeing what is happening, and have a 5 Secodn delay, than thinking all is dandy, and Wham BAm thank you man, MONSTER A has been beating yer ass for 7 seconds without you even knowing it. **

THUS I always do /Pings to different places.
It seems that Pings to Sentech , Mweb, and some other random SA sites are stable now, wich is in-fact a good sign. Still not worth what we are paying however.

And before you say that Sentech is not meant for Gaming, it might be true, but MORPG's dont need the Pings that FPS games need. all you need is stability and 56k modem speeds to be able to play. And yes, for a full month I was able to play better than anything else I have had, since the first 3 months that ADSL was released and before it was routed through the Satelite.

/sigh

guess im trying to say, it is not as good as it was, and to be honest I doubt it will ever be what it was, although it seems to be getting a *bit* better now.
 
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