UTD: Doing the Deranged Traffic Light Thang...

Disco lights as well

I'm also having the disco lights thing. No idea what tower I connect to, how would I find that out? I am in Weltevreden in Grand Prix Street, so possibly Northcliff.

I was kinda hoping that this behaviour wasn't normal, so glad to see this thread. I have the USB version, not the PCMCIA, and I connect it to the 'Net using a Linksys WRT54GS.

So, is there any known fix for this?
 
when you apply for iburst - go for a month to month contract via eft
just realized traffic gets re-directed to jhb then back to the tower. Voip latency is on average 250ms. Another solution out the window.

Same experience with utd in centurion.
 
my prob as well.

wait,... lets hear it WBS

"Its the bandwidth abusers!"

lame!
 
HEHEHE, another guy has the same problem, I had this same problem in about 2 weeks ago where the LED (lights) all go away then all of sudden kick back in, today i had issue to connect to WBS/IBURST network..

A friend called up WBS asking about this problem they told him his UT-D is broken, I go and take my UT-D to his place same problem b4 he didn't experience this problem, he told me all lights were in tact, and the FRAME error there was none.

WBS - uselesss company to me!
 
shane101, same here with the 'greyed out' signal on the UTD icon - a clear sign that somethings not right with the signal. Perm Pinging seems to be the only way to force this to not happen, or at least reduce it. I dont have the dancing lights on modem tho..
If its a radio signal problem, then this falls under someone called Sam's jurisdiction at IBurst.. on your next journey to the helpdesk, once they told you everythings fine, maybe ask to speak to him, or wheoever else deals specifically with quality of radio signal..?
 
chukaman said:
So, if this problem has been around for so long, why haven't WBS done anything about it?
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Because there is nothing WBS can do about it. It is a localized signal strength problem, experienced intermittantly by some users. I've had it before, when my signal was weak. Since I relocated my modem it no longer happens to me.
 
That's the kind of answer I was looking for.

So trying my modem elsewhere or alternatively using an external antenna should solve this problem?

Thanks for the assistance.
 
Relocated modem works much better

Gatecrasher said:
Because there is nothing WBS can do about it. It is a localized signal strength problem, experienced intermittantly by some users. I've had it before, when my signal was weak. Since I relocated my modem it no longer happens to me.
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Hey guess what? After hearing what you said I went home and decided that last night was the night that my iBurst would improve. I went with the Windows client (usually I am in Linux, so I hadn't even used the software before this) and I tried the modem in every single possible place within my house, until I had it sitting between 92% and 100% with five bright LED's.

I then tried the Telkom speed test and my speeds changed from 12KB/s to around 80KB/s, and the one time 128KB/s (but I presume that something funny happened there). I set the MTU on my Linksys WRT54GS to "auto" and it chose 1432 as the preferred MTU size.

Everything seems fine now including http/ftp downloads from overseas (I don't do the P2P thing over iBurst as I have an IS-Business-DSL (uncapped) elsewhere that I use if I need to do any of that), except I had about five timeouts when connecting via RDP to a server at the office, which really annoyed me a lot. Unfortunately I wasn't able to see whether the timeouts happened due to a "disco light" type problem, or whether it was due to something else. Not quite sure what I am meant to do about this, but it would be fantastic if the damn thing would stay connected. SSH sessions also died when these timeouts happened.

WBS did get back to me and they said that my modem is most likely faulty. Not sure if I should believe that.
 
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