UCT Speed

[MissingLink]

How does UCT achieve these speeds?

Your download speed is: 256.97 KBps, or 2055.77 Kbps
The test took 8.141 seconds to complete

Your current bandwidth reading is:
2.43 Mbps
which means you can download at 310.79 KB/sec. from our servers

Download time: 1.641 seconds
Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
Estimated line speed: 2486.3 (kilobits/second)
Estimated line speed: 304.7 (kiloBytes/second)

 

[MadAtter]

woooaaah. awesome stuff

 

[feo]

At tuks the highest we get is about 150KBps but thats not very often...those speeds are impressive. Did you do the tests while the labs were full?

 

[daffy]

Its called TENET.
The Tertiary Education NETwork - www.tenet.ac.za

According to the Tenet graphs, UCT has a 19200kbit/s line into the TENET backbone. They can use up to 14848kbit/s for international access.

 

[MissingLink]

At tuks the highest we get is about 150KBps but thats not very often...those speeds are impressive. Did you do the tests while the labs were full?

Yes the labs were full.

@Daffy thanks

 

[hj2k_x]

Yes the labs were full.

@Daffy thanks

Were u in the ComLabs or what?

Apparently AlumniLabs allow p2p if you dont get caught! Havent tried it myself...

 

[derekc]

Highest ever at a uni for us was 750KB/s. We were using torrents and set our upload to 750KB/s and downloaded like 70gig that weekend. Then they limited the speeds cos some of them were abusing it during university times...

 

[PostmanPot]

sweet!

 

[Ekhaatvensters]

All universities and technicons use special access network for educational purposes. So they wont run off any type of commercial product. But where TENET or whoever get that much bandwidth and unlimited access too is quite amazing.

Shurley it cant be diginet or sattelite, WAY too expensive at those speeds. Could only be their own connections. Just a geuss actually, but noone is going to give them speeds liek that at a price they can afford.

Okay wait, its on their website. They use the Sat-3 cable and are currently selling their souls to Satan (in an agreement with Telkom) The yhave a contention ration of 1.33:1. Quite amazing, this should cost them hundreds of thousands, but Telkom knows it has tons of international bandwidth to give away because it rapes its customers with such low caps and strong shaping.

Their traffic on the cable also gets higher priorit ythan any ADSL traffic on the line. So we would feeld a slow down for them to keep on running at full speed if there was a problem in the line.

 

[derekc]

well..one of out lecturers told us 3 years ago that our university pays Telkom R20m/year for Internet and telecommunications access...the least they could offer is decent internet connection.

 

[MissingLink]

Were u in the ComLabs or what?

Apparently AlumniLabs allow p2p if you dont get caught! Havent tried it myself...

Those speeds were from the comlabs, although i prefer the alumni labs. Never tried p2p though.

 

[feo]

Anyone know how to get torrents/p2p working at tuks?

 

[daffy]

You dont.

If the IT guys dont want you to, its for a good reason.
Universities pay alot of money for that kind of bandwidth.

I used to "manage/police" the internet access at RAU. It was an expensive passtime. We bought bandwidth control appliances that cost hundreds of thousands of rands. Implemented captive portal access control to monitor everything.
It was a nightmare.

When you figure out that half of your monthly bandwidth bill is going to waste, because people want to listen to streaming radio, instead of buying a R100 cheapie radio, it makes you really wonder what you could do with R3million instead of wasting it on kids who want to download porn and mp3's.

So do something constructive with your time, and the uni's money. Go study.

 

[hj2k_x]

You dont.

If the IT guys dont want you to, its for a good reason.
Universities pay alot of money for that kind of bandwidth.

I used to "manage/police" the internet access at RAU. It was an expensive passtime. We bought bandwidth control appliances that cost hundreds of thousands of rands. Implemented captive portal access control to monitor everything.
It was a nightmare.

When you figure out that half of your monthly bandwidth bill is going to waste, because people want to listen to streaming radio, instead of buying a R100 cheapie radio, it makes you really wonder what you could do with R3million instead of wasting it on kids who want to download porn and mp3's.

So do something constructive with your time, and the uni's money. Go study.

LOL. Something constructive? At University? You obviously havent been to UCT...

 

[derekc]

at our varsity, and I think all are the same, they pay a fixed amount per month for internet access. We use p2p at night when no one uses it and the IT management allowed our school to use p2p for 'research' purposes. As long as u dont abuse it during the day where ppl use it for academic and work related purposes, I don't see why we can't use it since it doesn't increase the varsity's costs.

Don't know why u guys at RAU spend so much money on bandwidth control appliances when u can get free software for linux that u can use. That's how it's been done now at my old varsity. They have bandwidth controls during the day now and all that it cost them is postgrad's time spent on configuring the software

 

[Mr Anderson]

Telkom Speed Test

Download time: 0.844 seconds
Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
Estimated line speed: 4834.1 (kilobits/second)
Estimated line speed: 592.4 (kiloBytes/second)

GamCo Speed Test

Your current bandwidth reading is:

852.20kbps
which means you can download at 106.53 KB/sec. from our servers

SenTech 1MB download Test

Your download speed is: 256.96 KBps, or 2055.71 Kbps
The test took 3.985 seconds to complete

This is at the office on my Desktop PC

 

[daffy]

Don't know why u guys at RAU spend so much money on bandwidth control appliances when u can get free software for linux that u can use. That's how it's been done now at my old varsity. They have bandwidth controls during the day now and all that it cost them is postgrad's time spent on configuring the software

Yeah.. that was my approach too. But you dont understand the beurocracy in old institutions like that. Its beyond frustrating. I actually put in a fairly tiny machine to do it for a while, and it worked like a charm. Linux traffic control is very very powerful, but its also very hard for "users" to understand.

Besides, what management wants (ie: pretty colourful graphs), management gets.

 

[krycor]

AMAZING, yet i can't even open gmail in some labs.. dunno maybe the engineering labs have been restricted hecticly wouldn't be supprised tho, comlab has always been ahead of most labs on upper campus even better than compsci peoples ones.. anyways they shape most of the ports and i think the speed thing is fast only for a few seconds during busy times, so that you can load a page fast but downloading files won't work -shrug- anyways I have only once/twice opened gmail there. I usually just go ***home*** if i want internet access.

EdIt: missed a word

 

[MissingLink]

Gmail has problems in all the labs as far as i know. Comlabs (Commerce faculty) are ahead because they have their own independent IT body, while all the other faculties' labs are run by another body.

 

[Kasyx]

UKZN probably have the worst internet speeds.

During the day you're lucky if you get dialup speeds and during the night it probably increases to a whopping 64k - thats kilobits.

GO UKZN, you useless bunch of idiots.