Weird behavior from iBurst connection today

[Donovan]

Hey everyone,

I'm having some really odd behavior today on my connection. Sometimes downloads run at the usual speeds of around 80KB/s, then drop to <1KB/s. If I stop and resume them, they speed up.

Some sites are slow - as if I am capped, like Youtube and so on.

Anyone else having this?

 

[DarkWater]

I'm also having this problem where my browsing feels like I'm capped or something.

 

[Donovan]

Yeah... things take forever to resolve at the moment this side. You also on a 41.xxxxxxx address, DW?

Also, weren't you previously on mywireless?

 

[nocilah]

yup... iburst seems to do this atleast once a month. im convinced it's pms.

 

[PDonut]

ya its slooooow, SlOoOoOoOoW, youtube = Slooowowow. International + iBurst = SloooowNoWaitItsOkHoldOnNopeItSlowSorryBoutThat

 

[Luke7777]

Yip, last night wasn't fun. 41.* IP as well

 

[Raithlin]

Likewise, also 41.*. First time I've experienced it in 30 months.

 

[Donovan]

I've disconnected and reconnected, and got a 19x.x.x.x addy.

Speedtest.net says – 490ms ping, download at 300kbps... last night, however, I was downloading files at around 90 to 110KB/s. Sometimes it even spiked up to 115 to 120KB/s... it was awesome.

 

[PDonut]

downloading with multiple sections i assume?
its the browsing thats the irritating part.

 

[DraK]

also experiencing slowness in iburst connection....

 

[Donovan]

Yeah I'm using a download manager. Browsing is slow... it seems to take a long time to resolve the address, once it starts loading it's not too bad.

Single threaded downloads hover around 17KB/s though...

 

[Spin99]

Yeh sometimes the net is a bit slow, specially during high traffic hours.
But they missed something on their advertising (17x faster?)

I'm downloading on average up to 50x faster than on dial-up near the tower here

PS This is calculated from my download manager logs as in how many MB/min and pretty accurate.

 

[ekkesa]

My Downloads are running @ approx 100KBps but browsing is very slow...

Also the Iburst speed test shows Jitter to be too high for VoIP...

Thus skype is not running as I would like...

 

[ekkesa]

I did tests on speedtest.net and found something intresting...

My international test (Amsterdam) is faster than my local test (Cape Town).

I did this 5 times & each time this was the case.... International is almost double than local...

Weird...