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Rikus
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I will be glad if it IS blocked.
I don't see why my speed should be reduced because of others abusing the uncapped facility.
They should let you pay to use P2P !!!
I don't see why my speed should be reduced because of others abusing the uncapped facility.
They should let you pay to use P2P !!!
Ok, the strangest thing just happened to me...
I was busy browsing on Wikipedia and noticed it was getting very slow but my bandwidth monitor said I was getting full speeds. Then I noticed that uTorrent was actually downloading 2 torrents that I queued earlier to test if I could get them working! I'm getting about 14Kbps sustained on my torrents and I can still use the web.
Unfortunately none of the local trackers work, only the international ones
I was busy browsing on Wikipedia and noticed it was getting very slow but my bandwidth monitor said I was getting full speeds. Then I noticed that uTorrent was actually downloading 2 torrents that I queued earlier to test if I could get them working! I'm getting about 14Kbps sustained on my torrents and I can still use the web.
Unfortunately none of the local trackers work, only the international ones
Ok, the strangest thing just happened to me...
I was busy browsing on Wikipedia and noticed it was getting very slow but my bandwidth monitor said I was getting full speeds. Then I noticed that uTorrent was actually downloading 2 torrents that I queued earlier to test if I could get them working! I'm getting about 14Kbps sustained on my torrents and I can still use the web.
Unfortunately none of the local trackers work, only the international ones
Glad to hear you are up
Live without local trackers.
I will be glad if it IS blocked.
I don't see why my speed should be reduced because of others abusing the uncapped facility.
They should let you pay to use P2P !!!
Others using P2P will NOT affect you. GWI use / enforce QOS (Quality Of Service).
P2P hardly moves during biz hours but changes from 19:00 to 07:00
And we all pay for our service, GWI won't be like Telskommels
and prescribe how we should use it.EDIT: For the monthly cost GWI are providing me with a stable, more than fast enough, uncapped = cost effective service here in PMB. Others mileage may vary. I can only control and report on my own & work connections. And I have an ADSL background (ran 2 x 4Mbit lines in my previous place of employment) and it's not always a bed of roses. Same speed degradations that happen to us here on GWI, when inernational gets slow here you can almost bet on it being tthe same through the ADSL network & SAIX. South Africa just has a sucky Internet infrastructre IMHO, we have to live with it and Pray it gets better as we approch 2010 ....
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Rikus
Banned
Please explain to me what the internet has to do with 2010
Please explain to me what the internet has to do with 2010
2010 = Soccer World Cup = Massive Comms Infrastructure Needed.
Also = lots of outside money coming in (long before 2010
) so we can only hope all things telecomms get a good overhaul.Rikus
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I have said it before and will say it again: The 2010 w/cup will not be hosted in this country!!!2010 = Soccer World Cup = Massive Comms Infrastructure Needed.
Also = lots of outside money coming in (long before 2010
As to the overhaul you speak about, the only overhauling will be done to the expensive cars of the affirmative action appointees heading up these telekomms companies.
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
I'm going to bump this thread again in the hope that somebody will direct me to a WebIntact reseller for a speed test...
Rikus
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The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
@ Rikus - ta for da linky, will let you know what happened 
PMB Service with a smile
Ok, just to thank Stuart from GWI Pietermaritzburg who came out within an hour of my calling him last Friday (16th) to replace our antenna which was fried by a power surge in a BIG electrical storm the previous night.
Thanks for you efforts. Not to mention that you got your hands roasted
by the hot corrugated iron roof you had to crawl along trying to get the unit replaced.
And here is the real plus: We lost our D-Link DI 604 Router to the same storm but guess what, the new antenna actually has a router onboard so no need for an external router to maintain the connection
Nice work GWI.
- R
Ok, just to thank Stuart from GWI Pietermaritzburg who came out within an hour of my calling him last Friday (16th) to replace our antenna which was fried by a power surge in a BIG electrical storm the previous night.
Thanks for you efforts. Not to mention that you got your hands roasted
by the hot corrugated iron roof you had to crawl along trying to get the unit replaced. And here is the real plus: We lost our D-Link DI 604 Router to the same storm
but guess what, the new antenna actually has a router onboard so no need for an external router to maintain the connection Nice work GWI.
- R
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
Had an GWI installation this morning.
Everything works fine, except for external access to our mail, web and FTP server. (We host our own web, ftp and mail server).
Scratching around a bit revealed that we got assigned a private IP and not an public IP.
I have phoned our reseller and they assured me that they will look at the problem.
So far it works quite well except for the above problems.
I'm impressed with the level of service - we phoned yesterday afternoon, and the techies pitched up this morning.
We're still waiting for hellskommels to deliver us our ADSL line...
Regards
Libs
Everything works fine, except for external access to our mail, web and FTP server. (We host our own web, ftp and mail server).
Scratching around a bit revealed that we got assigned a private IP and not an public IP.
I have phoned our reseller and they assured me that they will look at the problem.
So far it works quite well except for the above problems.
I'm impressed with the level of service - we phoned yesterday afternoon, and the techies pitched up this morning.
We're still waiting for hellskommels to deliver us our ADSL line...
Regards
Libs
OK, so who is screwing with GWI Nedbank PMB?
Last night & tonight:
(Part of Router Log follows)
Mar 27 21:17:01 PPPoE connection established.My IP is 10.1.XXX.xxx
Mar 27 21:16:44 PPP LCP Up!
Mar 27 21:16:44 PADS received session id 0x3085
Mar 27 21:16:42 PADR Send
Mar 27 21:16:42 PADO received AC name 'Nedbank2'
Mar 27 21:16:39 PADI Send
Mar 27 21:16:39 PADT Send
Mar 27 21:16:39 PADT Send
Mar 27 21:16:39 PPPoE disconnected
Mar 27 21:16:39 PPPoE start to dial-up
Mar 27 21:16:39 PPP LCP Downeer not responding!
Mar 27 21:05:19 PPPoE connection established.My IP is 10.1.XXX.xxx
Mar 27 21:05:16 PPP LCP Up!
Mar 27 21:05:16 PADS received session id 0x306b
Mar 27 21:05:16 PADR Send
Mar 27 21:05:16 PADO received AC name 'Nedbank2'
Mar 27 21:05:15 PADI Send
Mar 27 21:05:15 PADT Send
Mar 27 21:05:15 PADT Send
Mar 27 21:04:30 PPP LCP Up!
Mar 27 21:04:30 PADS received session id 0x305f
Mar 27 21:04:27 PADR Send
Mar 27 21:04:27 PADO received AC name 'Nedbank2'
Mar 27 21:04:17 PADI Send
Mar 27 21:04:08 PADI Send
Mar 27 21:04:03 PADI Send
Mar 27 21:03:57 PADI Send
Mar 27 21:03:57 PADT Send
Mar 27 21:03:57 PADT Send
Mar 27 21:03:57 PPPoE disconnected
Mar 27 21:03:56 PPPoE start to dial-up
Mar 27 21:03:56 PPP LCP Downeer not responding!
Mar 27 21:01:37 PPPoE connection established.My IP is 10.1.XXX.xxx
Mar 27 21:01:36 PPP LCP Up!
(many more pages like this)
This has been the case both last night and tonight. After months (I installed the router December last year) of very stable operation - would get the odd disconnect happening like this every so often. Perhaps once / day (normally around 21:00) at most. Never knew it happened unless I checked the logs, the re-con normally only takes a second or so. This log shows a different story.
Was OK this afternoon when my daughter used it (starting say around 16:00) up to around 19:00 ... Router Log is about 10 pages long from 19-21:00, same error.
With the connection dropping this frequently service is obviously unusable. (This post courtesy of Vodacom 3G, first time I have had to use it at home as a backup in a looooong while.) I will be working at home 2mrow so will see what happens during the day.
@Webintact: What gives? Outside interference? Looks that way to me ...
Thanks in advance!
- R
EDIT: OK, it's been stable since 21:40 (almost 22:40 now, so a whole hour!) ...
Back to normal ...
Mar 27 21:40:19 PPPoE connection established.My IP is 10.1.XXX.xxx
Mar 27 21:40:19 PPP LCP Up!
Mar 27 21:40:19 PADS received session id 0x30df
Mar 27 21:40:17 PADR Send
Mar 27 21:40:17 PADO received AC name 'Nedbank2'
Mar 27 21:40:15 PADI Send
Mar 27 21:39:53 PADI Send
Mar 27 21:39:53 PADT Send
Mar 27 21:39:53 PADT Send
Mar 27 21:39:53 PPPoE disconnected
Mar 27 21:39:53 PPPoE start to dial-up
Mar 27 21:39:53 PPP LCP Downeer not responding!
Mar 27 21:32:54 PPPoE connection established.My IP is 10.1.XXX.xxx
Mar 27 21:32:52 PPP LCP Up!
Mar 27 21:32:52 PADS received session id 0x30b1
Last night & tonight:
(Part of Router Log follows)
Mar 27 21:17:01 PPPoE connection established.My IP is 10.1.XXX.xxx
Mar 27 21:16:44 PPP LCP Up!
Mar 27 21:16:44 PADS received session id 0x3085
Mar 27 21:16:42 PADR Send
Mar 27 21:16:42 PADO received AC name 'Nedbank2'
Mar 27 21:16:39 PADI Send
Mar 27 21:16:39 PADT Send
Mar 27 21:16:39 PADT Send
Mar 27 21:16:39 PPPoE disconnected
Mar 27 21:16:39 PPPoE start to dial-up
Mar 27 21:16:39 PPP LCP Down
eer not responding! Mar 27 21:05:19 PPPoE connection established.My IP is 10.1.XXX.xxx
Mar 27 21:05:16 PPP LCP Up!
Mar 27 21:05:16 PADS received session id 0x306b
Mar 27 21:05:16 PADR Send
Mar 27 21:05:16 PADO received AC name 'Nedbank2'
Mar 27 21:05:15 PADI Send
Mar 27 21:05:15 PADT Send
Mar 27 21:05:15 PADT Send
Mar 27 21:04:30 PPP LCP Up!
Mar 27 21:04:30 PADS received session id 0x305f
Mar 27 21:04:27 PADR Send
Mar 27 21:04:27 PADO received AC name 'Nedbank2'
Mar 27 21:04:17 PADI Send
Mar 27 21:04:08 PADI Send
Mar 27 21:04:03 PADI Send
Mar 27 21:03:57 PADI Send
Mar 27 21:03:57 PADT Send
Mar 27 21:03:57 PADT Send
Mar 27 21:03:57 PPPoE disconnected
Mar 27 21:03:56 PPPoE start to dial-up
Mar 27 21:03:56 PPP LCP Down
eer not responding! Mar 27 21:01:37 PPPoE connection established.My IP is 10.1.XXX.xxx
Mar 27 21:01:36 PPP LCP Up!
(many more pages like this)
This has been the case both last night and tonight. After months (I installed the router December last year) of very stable operation - would get the odd disconnect happening like this every so often. Perhaps once / day (normally around 21:00) at most. Never knew it happened unless I checked the logs, the re-con normally only takes a second or so. This log shows a different story.
Was OK this afternoon when my daughter used it (starting say around 16:00) up to around 19:00 ... Router Log is about 10 pages long from 19-21:00, same error.
With the connection dropping this frequently service is obviously unusable. (This post courtesy of Vodacom 3G, first time I have had to use it at home as a backup in a looooong while.) I will be working at home 2mrow so will see what happens during the day.
@Webintact: What gives? Outside interference? Looks that way to me ...
Thanks in advance!
- R
EDIT: OK, it's been stable since 21:40 (almost 22:40 now, so a whole hour!) ...
Back to normal ...
Mar 27 21:40:19 PPPoE connection established.My IP is 10.1.XXX.xxx
Mar 27 21:40:19 PPP LCP Up!
Mar 27 21:40:19 PADS received session id 0x30df
Mar 27 21:40:17 PADR Send
Mar 27 21:40:17 PADO received AC name 'Nedbank2'
Mar 27 21:40:15 PADI Send
Mar 27 21:39:53 PADI Send
Mar 27 21:39:53 PADT Send
Mar 27 21:39:53 PADT Send
Mar 27 21:39:53 PPPoE disconnected
Mar 27 21:39:53 PPPoE start to dial-up
Mar 27 21:39:53 PPP LCP Down
eer not responding! Mar 27 21:32:54 PPPoE connection established.My IP is 10.1.XXX.xxx
Mar 27 21:32:52 PPP LCP Up!
Mar 27 21:32:52 PADS received session id 0x30b1
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I've had relatively unstable bandwidth for a few days as well.
Spoke to my reseller and he said that GWI is having issues with their ISP's. Something about servers and bandwidth and backup servers. I would be lying if I said I knew exactly what was going on. He said they're using their backup system at the moment instead of both the primary and the backup. So I get slow access during the day but night-time is ok, back to normal speeds.
With regard to p2p access I've been using uTorrent for a while now and I find that if I use the TorrentFinder addon for Firefox I can get just about anything to work. The speeds are not stellar, but it's totally usable. All I needed to do was under the BitTorrent settings I set Protocol Encryption to "Forced" and everything works. You'll find that only some torrents work, but I think that by enabling encryption you are limited to peers using either uTorrent or those also using encryption.
Spoke to my reseller and he said that GWI is having issues with their ISP's. Something about servers and bandwidth and backup servers. I would be lying if I said I knew exactly what was going on. He said they're using their backup system at the moment instead of both the primary and the backup. So I get slow access during the day but night-time is ok, back to normal speeds.
With regard to p2p access I've been using uTorrent for a while now and I find that if I use the TorrentFinder addon for Firefox I can get just about anything to work. The speeds are not stellar, but it's totally usable. All I needed to do was under the BitTorrent settings I set Protocol Encryption to "Forced" and everything works. You'll find that only some torrents work, but I think that by enabling encryption you are limited to peers using either uTorrent or those also using encryption.
Hmmm, interesting ...
Have just checked the Router Logs, last entry was at 21:40 last night so it's been up, fast & stable since then:
Mar 27 21:40:19 PPPoE connection established.My IP is 10.1.XXX.xxx
Mar 27 21:40:19 PPP LCP Up!
Mar 27 21:40:19 PADS received session id 0x30df
Mar 27 21:40:17 PADR Send
Mar 27 21:40:17 PADO received AC name 'Nedbank2'
Mar 27 21:40:15 PADI Send
Mar 27 21:39:53 PADI Send
Mar 27 21:39:53 PADT Send
Mar 27 21:39:53 PADT Send
Mar 27 21:39:53 PPPoE disconnected
Mar 27 21:39:53 PPPoE start to dial-up
Mar 27 21:39:53 PPP LCP Downeer not responding!
(See the EDIT on my post last night)
Let's see what GWI say today. I would suspect (in my case) it's not an ISP issue as the "LCP Down" refers to Link Control Protocol which is kind of at Layer 3 (if I remember my OSI 7 layer model correctly ) and as such is at the comms level at the tower I hook into.
Had a lot of this kind of instability when I first installed this service (Nov 2006 IIRC) but I never had the Router then so I never knew what the error was. At that stage "outside interference" was mentioned by someone (like another strong WiFi signal on the same channel) but using Net Stumbler shows nothing (other than what should be there, all many channels apart )
Let's hope it's a temporary thing, I use the system mostly at night myself so it's a pain in the A$$ when this happens. My kid uses it mid to late afternoon (school work plus the usual ) so she's OK.
- R
Have just checked the Router Logs, last entry was at 21:40 last night so it's been up, fast & stable since then:
Mar 27 21:40:19 PPPoE connection established.My IP is 10.1.XXX.xxx
Mar 27 21:40:19 PPP LCP Up!
Mar 27 21:40:19 PADS received session id 0x30df
Mar 27 21:40:17 PADR Send
Mar 27 21:40:17 PADO received AC name 'Nedbank2'
Mar 27 21:40:15 PADI Send
Mar 27 21:39:53 PADI Send
Mar 27 21:39:53 PADT Send
Mar 27 21:39:53 PADT Send
Mar 27 21:39:53 PPPoE disconnected
Mar 27 21:39:53 PPPoE start to dial-up
Mar 27 21:39:53 PPP LCP Down
eer not responding! (See the EDIT on my post last night)
Let's see what GWI say today. I would suspect (in my case) it's not an ISP issue as the "LCP Down" refers to Link Control Protocol which is kind of at Layer 3 (if I remember my OSI 7 layer model correctly
) and as such is at the comms level at the tower I hook into. Had a lot of this kind of instability when I first installed this service (Nov 2006 IIRC) but I never had the Router then so I never knew what the error was. At that stage "outside interference" was mentioned by someone (like another strong WiFi signal on the same channel) but using Net Stumbler shows nothing (other than what should be there, all many channels apart
)Let's hope it's a temporary thing, I use the system mostly at night myself so it's a pain in the A$$ when this happens. My kid uses it mid to late afternoon (school work plus the usual
) so she's OK.- R
The_Unbeliever
Honorary Master
We're up and running on a 256k link.
Impressed with the whole setup so far, and thankful that it's working. (otherwise I'd be in deep schitte by now...).
Reseller said we can bump the speed up to 5Mb if needed... now *that* is impressive.
Impressed with the whole setup so far, and thankful that it's working. (otherwise I'd be in deep schitte by now...).
Reseller said we can bump the speed up to 5Mb if needed... now *that* is impressive.