TODAY

[Staind]

today i'm not happy, it seems as though this service cannot handle the amount of customers online during peek time, i couldn't even access webpages, i was timing out left/right and centre.
weekends seem fine but thats because business' aren't accessing the network. but then honestly the service should contend differently for different people and the prices should be different cause this is pathetic, my internet only works during specific times and still is barely limited. while surfing i went to tucows and tried to download a file the max speed i got over 1 hour was 10k wow so fast on a weekend. what is up with that?

1 more thing.
before when i was on mweb emailing was fine.
now
i try send photos from my sentech email address to a mweb address and none of the photos go through, the whole email is filtered.
i try send an empty email. that goes through.
so what could it be, i phone mweb, access the filtering site and make it so my address is always allowed for any email.
does that help?
no
tried several other things but it seems as though the network is as stubborn as ever.

 

[guest2013-1]

#1 Thats why I have my own domain, I can specify processing rules, catch-all mail addy's, the works
#2 I know Sentech has oversold on the 128k package, but from what that Smith dude said, they would have foreseen this and increased the bandwidth accordingly. I never really had speed problems (sometimes not getting max on torrents, but thats about it, even uploading at 256k speeds, not 128k) but what I think is the 512k slice of the pie is not near saturated.

From what I've read and seen from Sentech, I think that them not increasing the 128k bandwidth pool is a very likely event, and because 512k (may I even dare say 256k) won't have as much problems because their pools are not near saturated.

Thumbsuck opinion and as everyone would tell you, noone doesn't know everything... or anything... []

Help save the bandwidth. Decent download speeds for TheRodent! Stop downloading now!!!

 

[Brolloks]

noone
That sounds like a possible theory. We've had the "Wind Theory", the "Sun/heat Theory"
Until we know how the bandwitdh management thingy works it would be a good speculation that the pool for 128K and perhaps 256K has run out.
Out of curiosity it would be interesting to know how many subscribers are on the relevant MW packages.

 

[MrGray]

...or how about the "Sentech just doesn't have enough bandwidth, there are too many users on the same tower and they don't know how to configure their network properly theory"?[!]

There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of by mere mortal men - Shakespeare

 

[dorris]

hmmm
/me wonders what inspired Warwick Ashford's latest column
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Failure is often blamed on technology. Even the outcome of some modern wars has been ascribed to technology failure. <b>But is it the technology that fails or the people implementing it who fail?</b><hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
he alludes to the sentech saga somewhat, but doesn't mention it by name. but overall an interesting read.
http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/columnists/gettingreal/ashford040806.asp?O=FPC

 

[groenie]

noone, I think you're just lucky. I just did the SRT (Standard Rodent Test) http://tucows.is.co.za/files4/DCPlusPlus-0.241.exe and it maxed at 8.8KB/s on our 512 package. We rarely get more than 10KB/s. We're in Pretoria on La Montagne tower.

 

[Brolloks]

Did the same test as above @ 19:46 on 11/08/2004
Speed was between 0 and peak of 14.1kB/s with 4 threads
Average speed of *drumroll* 5.8kB/s not too bad, but not what it should be

MW128 on Mintek, 8dBi patch antenna

 

[guest2013-1]

speeds has been sucky the whole day, and yea, i'm lucky, because when TheRodent did the wardrive they tested my tower and had sucky speeds, whereas I didn't... wish i was there to point and laugh....

Help save the bandwidth. Decent download speeds for TheRodent! Stop downloading now!!!

 

[aborg]

My speed has been decent 15 - 25 KB/s on a 256k pkge. I must say a lot of ppl I talk to that are on 128k complains of speed - maybe noone has a point.

We should bring in the luck theory []

 

[Saul]

I have this theory about the speed issues, call me crazy and flame away if you think its a load of rubbish but thats the joy of public forums, any idiot can have his say.

Okay, basically in my mind not all modems are equal. As noone says, he gets perfect speeds on the same tower that sucked during the wardrive. Also, most people who signed up before the tower "optimisation" all those months back are unhappy whereas the newer customers dont seem to have such problems. I have spoken to 2 other users, one on the brixton tower who has had it for a while and is having sucky speeds and then another who got his modem roughly the same time as mine, that being june and were both getting 12K +.

Now maybe there is actually a defect in some of the modems. An old batch that IPWireless dropped off a back of a truck and then they sold it to sentech cheap.

Just a thought.

 

[TheRoDent]

I have to disagree with this theory Saul. Mine was one of probably the first batches of modems since I subscribed somewhere in February. It worked great.

Now it sucks. Except for the Rosebank tower, which occasionally gives good speeds.

My modem hasn't changed whatsoever since Feb, except for fiddling with firmware here and there. And I've tried them all. All with the same basic results...

Dunno, you might be onto something here, but I don't think it's the actual modems.


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[Scarface]

The fact that many users report different speeds (sometimes great, other times sucking) indicates that the Towers and or backhaul links are the culprits.

Tonite, same tower/siganl/firmware and it sucks - last night (in fact the last week) it was flying (managed to download SUSE 9.1 Enterprise Server which is 5CD's no prob at ave 18K). TO prove my point, tonite I won't even try a speed test, it would take 3 minutes.

No, I think it's because of fiddling. When you (Sentech) don't know where the problem lies, you tend to fiddle with many things to find the problem and I think that is the reason why the Network is unstable.

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Not so famous last words -"Hold my dop and check this move..."

 

[DFantom]

Well said scarface

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[Kaptain Khaos]

personally i think noone and sentech have something in common they a re full of BS and make no sense when they say something.!!

<b>in chaos all things are harmonious</b>
<i>Tower 82 14% Signal 512k package </i>

 

[dbnnet]

Rodent, it's been asked of you before (I think you never replied to that person)
but the question was similar to Sauls' along the lines of if you have actually tried using a
modem from someone who had reported a better speed throughput.
Currently your speeds are consistantly soooooo bad... that one has to rethink the hardware option.

I think that Saul might well have something on this and.... based on my own experience.
(I'm on my second modem)
A number of users over the past 4 months have indicated that their modems worked
well for a while... then fell over! Rhino, if I recall was also one of them.

<font size="1"><font color="black">Bay of Plenty :</font id="black"><font color="blue"> Signal 48% - SNL 17 - ber 71% :</font id="blue"><font color="green"> D-Link DI-604 - PPPoE :</font id="green"><font color="orange"> 8dBi Patch Antenna :</font id="orange"> Firmware 4.2.1.8</font id="size1">

 

[Brolloks]

The only real way to confirm Saul's theory would be to check the serial/IMEI numbers of all the modems against the manufacturer's list of batches to see if there are actual differences in the modems.

Alternatively one of the guys with the IPW contacts can just ask them if there is a difference.
Personally I think they're all the same. That's why you have up/downgradeable firmware. Manufacturing one model modem instead of a few different ones makes business sense. Limiting dl speeds via management softwere from the ISP side is easier than stocking different speed modems (like in the good old days of 14.4kB/s, 28.8kB/s, 56kB/s, 128kB/s modems) where the dl/ul speed is limited by hardware.

Who knows what the theoretical limit of these IPW modems is?

 

[Saul]

Hey Brolloks, I was under the impression that it was 3MB/s. That was what Sentech advertised the service as originally.

 

[dorris]

Sauls theory, this almost sounds like a new law, maybe it will go down in the history book sometime, is interesting, and I have thought similiar things, only with towers being the objective instead of modems.
the theory doesn't hold much water, using the case of noone in particular, because he was one of the first subscribers, thinking back on the initial weeks, he possibly got his modem at the same time as theRodent, if not bfore.
Using the laws of a direct proof, if it fails on one instance, the theorum fails altogether.

 

[mrbob]

How about instead of modems/towers apply the theory to user-accounts.Maybe certain users have some kind of preference over others??

The users who get good speeds seem to consistently get good speeds, Sentech probably took the users on the congested towers , said "well we can't let everyone have below average speeds so we'll give some users absolutely ****e speeds and others (probably businesses , celebrities and well the odd lucky mofo here and there) we'll keep happy". That way they can keep the dissatisfied users to a small average (say 5/6%) and then blame another minority percentage for stealing all the bandwidth..;..!


surely it has to come down to one of a few factors - towers/modems/accounts/location in relation to tower?!? .. because on the same towers .. some will get consistently good speeds and others absolute crap (excepting Brixton... does ANYONE get decent speeds from Brixton? .. )

bleeh

 

[Saul]

Mr bob, your still suffering I take?

When Mr bob and I tried on tuesday to take his modem to killarney (not sure which tower we got on) and it kept on disconnecting us.

Tomorrow I am going to be in parktown which should latch onto brixton and I am going to test my theory. I'll report back.

Mr bob, I told you I was a lucky mofo [8D]