Weather : Effect on Speed?

[Comrade Borris]

I noticed that my connection is *very* slow today (in the region of 5 - 8 kB) []

Does this have anything to do with the rain/overcast weather in jhb?

I've got a 256k package and have usually been maxing out in the region of 30k.

Do the clouds weaken the signal or strengthen it (like with AM radio frequencies travelling far coz of bouncing of clouds)?

Has anyone else noticed a problem from the weather? [?]

Comrade Borris

 

[ajax]

Due to the short distances to the towers the weather should not affect you at all.

Normally over long distances the ionisphere (a thin and partly ionized layer in the UPPER ATMOSPHERE at the lower edge of the aurora) "reflects" signals back to earth causing them to travel around the earth. But that's only for low frequencies lower than 30 MHz.

Ajax

 

[TrXtR]

no one can only connect when it's overcast hehe
well used to

 

[Dr4k]

hey

30k hmm lol, i usually average aroudn 44kbs 256 package aswell . so far regards to downloading im pretty happy and when its overcast seems to work just as fine as when its sunny.

Dr4k out

 

[guest2013-1]

yea, to tower 82, but i connect to 66, and average 72

135 meg in 32 minutes is REALLY nice

 

[Ditch]

Just to avoid confusion: are we talking about bytes per second or bits per second? Bytes per second = uppercase B, bits per second = lowercase b.

 

[ProAsm]

Most people refer to Kilo Bytes per second unless they refering to their logon speed which will always be 3 digits unless they are on a 56k modem or ISDN.
Only the technical (like us) get all twisted and turned with kb and KB []




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[ckleynhans]

On rainy days everyone surfs. And when that happens, contention ratio comes into play and that is why the speed drops. Or is there any other ideas.

It may have something to do with error rates that shoot up but I would stay with the first point.

 

[guest2013-1]

on rainy days i feck like i never did b4! contention ratio my ass

 

[ProAsm]

Eish, ckleynhans thats a dicey statement to make []
Anyways there are no where near enough users for that yet []

Signal strength could play a role depending on what it is which is something everyone should mention when querying somthing about their connection.

Something I did notice today of interest is usually I get 25% but today its raining and miserable and dropped to 18%.
Looks like its the water that accumulates on the walls, windows etc of the building causing a shield and drops the signal.
Yet on my outside Antenna which sits at 51% there was no change.


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[nroets]

I'd like to see a pick of your patch, ProASM.

 

[Verbatim]

Interesting you should say that, ProAsm, I normally get around 30% signal, but today, I only manage to get 20% (from a very stable station 126, Brixton). Thought my tea tray was playing up []

 

[guest2013-1]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by nroets</i>
<br />I'd like to see a pick of your patch, ProASM.

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Erm, dude, rephrase your question, that sounded a bit too gay [] []

 

[ProAsm]

nroets, pictures of my test antenna now on the site (signature) - check "ProAsms Antenna Tests"


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[TadMadLad]

big ass antenna you have there...

any news on the fastcomm release date if their antennas?

 

[TadMadLad]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by nroets</i>
<br />I'd like to see a pick of your patch, ProASM.

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if this was an adult forum, you would be asking a very risky question []

 

[Comrade Borris]

LOL

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> I'd like to see a pick of your patch, ProASM.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

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Comrade Borris