To hell with Ed: post tower numbers here

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Let's make the list ourselves. I'm sure we'll be missing a few as not everbody is on this forum, but what the hell, at least your number will be corrected in time.
[Johannesburg]
0=No Tower (Uplink Failed)
1=Sanlam Centre (JHB CBD)
2=Northcliff JW Day:3 Night:3
3=Sandton City
4=Bryanston WT
5=Midrand JW
6=Primrose Hill(Bedfordview)
7=Soweto (Jabulani WT)
8=Rosebank
9=Roodepoort WT
10=Kempton Park
11=Forest Hill
12=Fourways (Indaba)
13=Randburg (Rand_Pres)
14=Auckland Park (Sabc)
15=UUNET (Woodmead/Gallo Manor)
16=Kyalami Castle Day:3 Night:2.5
17=Linksfield Ridge
18=Olivdale (Bahai Center)
19=Killarney (Castle Rosie)
20=Linden
21=Roodekrans
22=Constantia Kloof (Proton)
23=Edenvale Mall
24=Benoni (Maluti)
25=Morningside (Westpoint)
26=RandParkRidge
27=Illovo (Laudergate)
28=Bramley North
29=Blairgowrie (TSD)
30=Bramley South
31=Vorma Valley
32=Epsom Downs (Sloane)
33=Hyde Park
34=Rivonia
255=No Tower

[Pretoria]
0=NoTower (Uplink Failed)
1=SunnyPark
2=WonderBoom Webb
3=Erasmus Park (Parkell)
4=Centurion
5=Menlopark (CSIR Telkom)
6=Hatfield (Lynnwood Forum)
7=Fairy Glen

[Durban]
0=NoTower (Uplink Failed)
1=Durban CBD (Bayhouse)
2=Springfield/Dbn North (NorthRidge)
3=Glenwood (SouthRidge)
4=La Lucia/Umhlanga (The Ridge)
5=Pinetown

[Cape Town]
0=NoTower (Uplink Failed)
1 Cape Town CBD (Holiday Inn)
2 Kenilworth (Dorsic House)
3 Goodwood (Mark Heights)
4 Bellville(Huis Andre VD Walt)
5 Plumstead (Culmwood Gardens) Day:2 Night:1
6 Strand/Somerset West (Strand Odeon Towers)
7 Table View(Blowberg)

bold ones have been confirmed...
italic to be load (unless you want it to be weedays/weekends
last update: 11/10 19:05
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DDT said:
16 is almost certainly Kyalami Castle

31 is probably (based on km distance Vorna Valley
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peterleroux said:
24 is Benoni.
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2 is still northcliff
 
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Cape Town numbers

Bscc 1 Load 3 Holiday Inn, Cape Town CBD (overloaded)
Bscc 2 Load 2 Dorsic House, Claremont
Bscc 3 Load 3 Mark Heights, Goodwood (overloaded)
Bscc 4 Load 2 Huis Andre VD Walt, Bellville
Bscc 5 Load 2 Culmwood Gardens, Plumstead
Bscc 6 Load 2 Odeon Towers, Strand
Bscc 8 Load 2 Blouberg, Table View
Bscc 11 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 12 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 13 Load 0 Sea Point, Cape Town
Bscc 15 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 16 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 18 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 19 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 20 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 21 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 22 Load 1 Gardens Centre, Cape Town CBD
Bscc 24 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 25 Load ? Somerset West
Bscc 27 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 28 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 29 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 30 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 31 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 32 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 35 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 37 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 40 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 41 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 42 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 43 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 47 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 48 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 50 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 51 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 53 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 56 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 59 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 60 Load 1 (unknown)
Bscc 61 Load 0 (unknown)
Bscc 63 Load 0 (unknown)

Can anyone supply me with more info on the Cape Town Towers? PM and I'll update the list.
 
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Tower 5 in CPT is still Plumstead and tower 2 is still Kenilworth.

I'll post the numbers for Constantia and Kirstenhof when they finally come up.
 
Please post load as well...

Hi Guys

Can I ask that if possible, you could also include the load of a specific tower, as this will help others not to direct their antennae to overloaded (load 3) towers?
 
The load changes depending on how many people are on the tower, almost all towers will be at least 1 during the day and probably around 0 in the night.

But its a good idea, not shure how to generalise the load though.

My Plumstead tower has a load of 2 during the day most days, but often a load of 1 after hours and later.
 
Load of towers to be posted

Hi EHV

I suggest posting the highest load, or the load that reflected when you ran the test if only one test was completed.

If it turns out that the tower load is lower when a member of the forum does connect to the specific tower, it will be a bonus instead of a disappointment.
 
OKay, well then I would call the Plumbstead tower 2. but it has very good performance actually, so 1 might reflect that better, maby its just on the verge of 2 I dont know...
 
I'd like to help but, other than Northcliff, the signals are so bad that I don't think the distances are a reliable guide - eg Primrose Hill (Germiston) is reported as 2km distant and it's much more than that. The current (23h25) load on Nothcliff is 3 - just thought I'd mention that.
 
Ekhaatvensters said:
The load changes depending on how many people are on the tower, almost all towers will be at least 1 during the day and probably around 0 in the night.

But its a good idea, not shure how to generalise the load though.

My Plumstead tower has a load of 2 during the day most days, but often a load of 1 after hours and later.
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You are not from JHB - my "home" tower - Kyalami has a consistant load of 3 from around 8 in the morning to around 1 in the morning. Between 1am and 8 am you MAY get lucky and get a load of 2, or if its school holidays, christmass and a blue moon 1. 0 - NEVER
 
Consolidation of Information

This thread has great aspirations, however one of the first principles of information technology is to keep data in one place ONCE.

SeBurn has a site & has on occasion offered to put up a proper web page to collate this data - Surely that must be better than a long list of ad-hoc posts in an ever growing thread?

SeBurn - Help us - put up a DB driven (maybe with history to circumvent the odd dodgy result, or a VOTE count that can weigth the answers submitted) page that can collate these kind of posts.

I personally would like to see stuff like :
Tower number
Assumed Tower name / description
number of connections (one connection doth not an answer give)
comments / motivations for a tower to be named - for example always used to connect to Bryston tower when Kyalami was down, so Brynston is probably still tower 4
Tower load
Reported distance from tower
Your location (is the distance reported reasonable?)
avg DB seen
(maybe - this is subjective to the ping site) avg ping
(maybe - this is subjective to the download / test site) avg kb/sec
 
DDT said:
This thread has great aspirations, however one of the first principles of information technology is to keep data in one place ONCE.

SeBurn has a site & has on occasion offered to put up a proper web page to collate this data - Surely that must be better than a long list of ad-hoc posts in an ever growing thread?

SeBurn - Help us - put up a DB driven (maybe with history to circumvent the odd dodgy result, or a VOTE count that can weigth the answers submitted) page that can collate these kind of posts.

I personally would like to see stuff like :
Tower number
Assumed Tower name / description
number of connections (one connection doth not an answer give)
comments / motivations for a tower to be named - for example always used to connect to Bryston tower when Kyalami was down, so Brynston is probably still tower 4
Tower load
Reported distance from tower
Your location (is the distance reported reasonable?)
avg DB seen
(maybe - this is subjective to the ping site) avg ping
(maybe - this is subjective to the download / test site) avg kb/sec
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I like this idea :)

How about a photo of the tower as well ;) so noobs will know where to point their antenna.

Also gps location (easy to get from google earth)
 
DDT said:
This thread has great aspirations, however one of the first principles of information technology is to keep data in one place ONCE.

SeBurn has a site & has on occasion offered to put up a proper web page to collate this data - Surely that must be better than a long list of ad-hoc posts in an ever growing thread?
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well, ppl like me don't bother to go to other sites. no offense seburn. too lazy at night and just wanna play games after i come home. i know it would be better, but it wouldn't hurt if it's here as well.

i'll post this in a new thread if it becomes clogged. problem solved :)
 
Need more Cape Town numbers!

Hi there if you know of a base station number in Cape Town that's not reflecting please post it here...
 
The ones I'm certain of:

17 is Hyde Park, not Linksfield Ridge.
27 is Illovo (Lowndes Gate, not Laudergate)
13 is Randburg as listed.
 
I'm in Pta East (Past Woodhill) and connected to tower 23 ???????

It states unknown tower load between 0 and 1 (at this time) and distance 9km.

Anyone know if thgis is the "Garsfontein" tower?
And where is this tower acually?

:)
 
Cape Town Tower Numbers

Thanks Bishop 01, updated your info...

Does anybody know what the Sea Point tower number is or any other tower that is not listed?
 
louisp said:
I'm in Pta East (Past Woodhill) and connected to tower 23 ???????

It states unknown tower load between 0 and 1 (at this time) and distance 9km.

Anyone know if thgis is the "Garsfontein" tower?
And where is this tower acually?

:)
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23 is Monument Park @ S 25 48.04 E 28 14.61

Garsfontein is in St Bernard Street @ S 25 48.43 E 28 19.04
On my kit it gives a tower number of '0'

Chambord also gives a tower number of '0'

Are these satellite / repeater transmitters?
 
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