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Boosting Signal

Is there a way you can boost a signal. lets say is you are receiving a 41% signal on avarage to a 65 or 70% signal.
 
diebaas said:
Is there a way you can boost a signal. lets say is you are receiving a 41% signal on avarage to a 65 or 70% signal.
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No need to ... Our office connection was running as low as 20% (almost 6KM distance :eek:) and it NEVER used to drop, even when it was raining ...

I am 500m Line Of Sight from my tower and I think I average around 40% (only using a small Yagi) and it's stable ...

- R
 
bad ping and speed today with GWI? ping mweb average 200+ and telkom.co.za got 1000+ spike.........
 
WRX1KNP said:
No need to ... Our office connection was running as low as 20% (almost 6KM distance :eek:) and it NEVER used to drop, even when it was raining ...

I am 500m Line Of Sight from my tower and I think I average around 40% (only using a small Yagi) and it's stable ...

- R
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Ok if you say so. I trust in you
 
WRX1KNP said:
No need to ... Our office connection was running as low as 20% (almost 6KM distance :eek:) and it NEVER used to drop, even when it was raining ...

I am 500m Line Of Sight from my tower and I think I average around 40% (only using a small Yagi) and it's stable ...

- R
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Ja it seems that it dont drop, but have a closer look at the packet los and you'll see just how much.
 
Kloon said:
Ja it seems that it dont drop, but have a closer look at the packet los and you'll see just how much.
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Not true - your signal strength generally will not affect packet loss if within certain limits. Signal quality is a different story...

Packet loss is normally indicative of interference, although it is also symptomatic of a (very) weak signal.

40% signal strength is plenty - depending on your connection speed. My home connection connects to the tower at 32%, and I can pull 2Mbps through it...
 
Web Intact said:
Fortunately this is not something that happens all the time. Sunday night is normally when we upgrade equipment when it's needed, for that very reason. I'm speaking mainly of he Gauteng/Verizon network here.
Sometimes a remote upgrade doesn't go as smoothly as it should, and occasionally towers don't come back online. We do it on Sunday night in case this happens so we don't have any problems reaching the site on a weekend.
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Ok I see so sunday no WoW for me lol :)
 
Web Intact said:
Fortunately this is not something that happens all the time. Sunday night is normally when we upgrade equipment when it's needed, for that very reason. I'm speaking mainly of he Gauteng/Verizon network here.
Sometimes a remote upgrade doesn't go as smoothly as it should, and occasionally towers don't come back online. We do it on Sunday night in case this happens so we don't have any problems reaching the site on a weekend.
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Did gwi do another upgrade last night because the service was ruuning below avarage this morning. But its not sunday:D
 
diebaas said:
Did gwi do another upgrade last night because the service was ruuning below avarage this morning. But its not sunday:D
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You beat me to it! I was just going to post info about last night's disruption and it seems you already know what happened!

Yes, we did do an upgrade starting at about 9pm, and worked on it till 3am. Unfortunately some bits went pear-shaped in the Verizon data center, and to get in after midnight is not that easy...

It's all running smoothly now, and those in Gauteng & NW should notice an improvement in browsing speeds especially.
Different types of low-priority traffic (especially encrypted P2P & the like) has been diverted away from the Verizon backbone to the IS network, and this should improve the overall experience.

:cool:
 
......ping telkom.co.za, mweb.co.za
response time above 200+ and lots of time outs....I am connecting to north cliff 2. I felt like my browsing is on IS or even worse all the time since this Sunday. Forever lag....overseas website ping usually around 600+, just now it's 1200ms+......
 
I felt like my browsing is on IS or even worse all the time since this Sunday.
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yes - that is correct, which is why we made the changes. actually, it's been somewhat longer than just since Sunday.

overseas website ping usually around 600+, just now it's 1200ms+......
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Your pings will not give a true indication of where everythings going...

At this stage they are running through the default (low priority) route, but your browsing, mail & http downloads through VZN.

*edit*
pings now reflect the prioritised route.... back to <300ms to google.com
 
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It's unplayable. Tried play my usual online FPS FEAR combat on saix servers DM:196.4.79.8 and TDM 196.4.79.48, DM server ingame ping between 100+ to 200+, That's close to international player's ping. I previously get below 50 ping with GWI. TDM server haven't tried yet but ping from server list, 466ms.....
 
Web Intact said:
You beat me to it! I was just going to post info about last night's disruption and it seems you already know what happened!
:cool:
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Ive got an suggestion:

Seeing that GWI sends us an sms if our payments doesn't go through why dont sent us an sms on the tower status and of planned upgrades and dates, this will improve your service even more and will impress upcomming clients when they speak to current clients and ask hows the service.

Just a suggestion:D

Think about it and let us know before we let you know.............. like today.
 
cyberarmy said:
It's unplayable. Tried play my usual online FPS FEAR combat on saix servers DM:196.4.79.8 and TDM 196.4.79.48, DM server ingame ping between 100+ to 200+, That's close to international player's ping. I previously get below 50 ping with GWI. TDM server haven't tried yet but ping from server list, 466ms.....
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Strange - these are my results:

Code: 
Tracing route to raidium.saix.net [196.4.79.8]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  192.168.11.1
  2     5 ms     4 ms     4 ms  10.0.96.51
  3    10 ms     9 ms    27 ms  10.0.96.10
  4     8 ms     6 ms     6 ms  172.16.0.65
  5     5 ms     8 ms     7 ms  172.16.0.1
  6    11 ms     7 ms     5 ms  vlan572.hr3.jnb6.alter.net [196.31.43.213]
  7     9 ms     5 ms     7 ms  ge4-0-0.gw1.jnb6.alter.net[196.30.156.130]
  8     7 ms     5 ms     7 ms  srp1-0.br1.jnb6.alter.net [196.30.156.8]
  9     9 ms     7 ms     7 ms  other-side.atm6-0sub1.br1.jnb6.alter.net [196.31.39.53]
 10     9 ms     8 ms     7 ms  196.43.25.137
 11    30 ms     8 ms    10 ms  tpr-ip-esr-1-ge-6-0-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.10.86]
 12  tpr-ip-esr-1-ge-6-0-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43.10.86]  
reports: Destination net unreachable.

you might want to get your connection to the tower checked...

We need to start gathering details of these game connections to do something about it, and you can help by emailing them to [email protected].
Please try and be constructive and include as much info as you can (ports, protocol etc). If this doesn't clash with any of our new routing policies, I don't see a problem with re-routing the traffic.

Think about it and let us know before we let you know.............. like today.
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Thanks - we will... last night was not planned the way it turned out, and we were aware of it as we were working on it all night, but we were running by 9.30am...
 
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Ok, heres three:

World of Warcraft and Burning Crusade:
TCP 3724.
This uses the Blizzard Downloader, which downloads patches, also uses TCP ports 6112 and the range 6881-6999.

Steam (Counter-Strike and the like) is:
UDP 1200 (For the Friends service)
UDP 27000 to 27015 inclusive
TCP 27020 to 27050 inclusive

Warcraft 3:
TCP 6112

Here you go, I'm sorry i posted these on the forums but when ever i send a email to your support they never reply. I'll send them in case anyway.

I hope you can reroute these, I'm not sure if any of these conflict with anything. Thank you
 
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