The month of July in review (so far)

[Crooked Koeksisterrrrr]

Simple simon.

Are you an IBurst interogator ?

 

[rebel]

Crooked Koeksisterrrrr, talk about a bad start. If people decide to finish their 3GB limit in 8 hours then it's their business. When we bitch about being throttled to 64k it means we're not getting the promised 64k. Maybe you don't understand English but try using an online translator to translate English to whatever Language you speak or can read. Cheers.

 

[rebel]

Raithlin

Sorry to offend you bud. But I thought this was an open forum. My Bad
Everyone has an opinion, some are right and others are wrong.
I am all ears.

PS: I was with IBurst from November last year (In the test phase), OMW it used to fly in those days, you could get whatever you wanted anythime, eish

Oops - let the cat outathebag there ! Cr@p.
IBurst s#ck man

/me thinks you're bitching about iBurst

Weren't u praising them earlier

 

[Raithlin]

Raithlin

Sorry to offend you bud. But I thought this was an open forum. My Bad
Everyone has an opinion, some are right and others are wrong.
I am all ears.

PS: I was with IBurst from November last year (In the test phase), OMW it used to fly in those days, you could get whatever you wanted anythime, eish

Oops - let the cat outathebag there ! Cr@p.
IBurst s#ck man

Hey, no offense taken (or implied). Your first post certainly made you out to be a iBurst newbie, and your generalisations reinforced that somewhat.

BTW, I've also been with iBurst since December, so I know what I'm missing now. My Linux downloads still come down though.

 

[P0tenc]

This is Typical. AT midnight on the first day of the month you guys are all prepared with your dl managers and a list of 100gig files. Its no wonder IBurst caps your @ss. By 2pm you have probably reached your 3 gigs.........

Then the next step for you winers is to jump onto this forum and B!ch like children who lost their toys. MY goodness, you are the saddest bunch of 12 year olds I have ever come across.

You are the reason the rest of us have to put up with the IBurst Capping and Shaping. They have gotto do something to prevent you people from flooding the entire SAIX bandwidth pipe.

Why not give up trying to dl every little mermaid special eddition rip and you might consider actually buying one or two for your self. You have run out of the excuse that you are dl'ing "LINUX distro's" long ago buddy.

Actually - why not just go over to ADSL, and leave the network for those that are actually wanting to surf. Thats all I do, really it is

No really !

By reading your first few sentences it's very clear to me you lack intellect.....thus I will abstain from reading any of your further posts, as I don't waist my time with mindless ramblings of an ill informed person!

 

[Crooked Koeksisterrrrr]

Ah well, you got me.

I agree, IBurst are not too good at keeping to their promises, you dont need too much upstairs to notice that. Forgive me for having a stab at some of the Heavy downloaders (I have read of 80 gigs or so in a month on this forum). Yes I also have a few problems here and there (mainly with gaming though because of latency). But I can only imagine that IBurst have to pay in some way or another for the bandwidth people are using. The problem most likely comes when you have guys that have figured out how to bypass the throttling and capping and this costs IBurst. So naturally they take a hard stance, (The wrong one in my humble opinion) and dream up another way to prevent this from happening. i.e - cutting some off completely when they reach their cap. (From what I have seen it is pure speculation that they will do this across the board) This way they can preserve their projected profits.

Unfortunately, this then affects the rest of us. And that is what gets to me.

 

[Celemasiko]

nice and true summary Slim, good job!!!

 

[Kei]

Nice summary Slim

The **** started for me on the 1st of July. I am now on my third sweet spot and quite frankly I am now out of LAN cable to move the UTD anywhere else so if this sweet spot dies, then I am really in trouble! The external antenna makes things WORSE because I can't get it high enough. The stupid cable is too short!

They did something to the antennae on Roodepoort Tower that weekend when the whole network was up to cr@p! Either they "adjusted" them or they changed the configuration or some parameter.

 

[Simple Twist Of Fate]

Kei i am all out of words...................... i wait for adsl............ period

 

[nocilah]

i'm still having luck with iburst. and i call it luck because thats what it is.

iburst has not yet evolved into a broadband solution. in fact iburst has degressed since i first got it.

nice summarry slim, you forgot to mention that some people also stopped getting there BW report emails from wbs this month.

 

[ic]

..., you forgot to mention that some people also stopped getting there BW report emails from wbs this month.

That started at the end of May [2005] and it probably will not be fixed before December [2010] seeing as WBS is the bunch of incompetent fools that they are......Thami Mtshali it really is time for you to sell iBurst to a competent ISP - for the good of customers accept an offer from a 2nd tier ISP - before your company goes bankrupt and you have to sell your home & car to avoid reposession etc etc etc...

 

[rebel]

My iBurst connection has been pretty stable this week and I'm getting my 64k. Nice summary Slimothy. I think a lot of users were affected last Saturday when 5 base stations went down. The $hitty thing is that most (incl. myself) didn't even know since WBS never communicates with it's customers.

 

[nocilah]

WBS never communicates with it's customers.

is it me, or isnt it ironic most communications companies fail to do just that? communicate.

I talk of sentech, wbs and telkom.

 

[nocilah]

it probably will not be fixed before December [2010]

dont you think you are being a tad bit optimistic?

 

[GuRu]

Ditto what everyone else posted

This at Crooked .... r Iburst users 5% Adsl 58% according to the what internet service do you use poll. So at 5% how can the Iburst users choke up the bandwidth ?


As far as July went - speed issues slow and dissconections when trying to do lenghthy updates
looking at other options

 

[jmn]

Something I noticed recently is that the Telkom Speed Test consistently gives lower speeds than the TelkomSA.net Speed Test, might be related to server loads, which also explains other errors from the test page.

 

[jmn]

This month has been a disaster so far, lost my temper completely on 2 occasions with ksedpleh (quoting ic) and actually try to avoid using iBurst as soon as problems crop up (which seems to be permanently), unless I really have to do something.
Have so far only used 1.6 GB, so WBS (and the doctor & pharmacy for treating my ulcer) laugh all the way to the bank again

 

[MrH]

Well July has been the worst month so far, lets hope it improves in August or it will be the last payment wbs will see from my side.

Still waiting to see what happens when I hit the cap, but I have taken it easy with downloading so far this month.

 

[Lucas Buck]

some people also stopped getting there BW report emails from wbs this month.

I never once got a bandwitdth report via e-mail but I guess that doesn't matter anymore...
Does any of your resellers take up your complaints with WBS? When I had a gripe my reseller refered me back to wbs when I expected them to at least do something on my behalf...Surely the reseller must take some sort of responsibility and act on behalf of the client as they are also making money out of the whole deal.

 

[MrH]

Not much the reseller can do as he hits the same brick wall we do when we contact wbs.

As for BW reports, well I've not recieved any this month by email, and to top it the webpage BW has shown 1,74g remaining for 11 days now!!!!