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So today the whole day my speed was crap, and I mean really crap, some pages half loaded others said 'Waiting for website.com' forever, but it was OK because it was Saturday and I never had anything to do on the net anyways, so I got home now and it was still really slow, I recconect and now my speed for downloads hit 170KB/s for the whole way on a 50MB file, my telkom speed test says this:

Your line speed is approximately 1226 Kbps or 150.2 kBytes/sec
( Where kb = kilobits and kB = kiloBytes )

* Download time: 3.328 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 1226 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 150.2 (kiloBytes/second)
Click to expand...

I read someone on this forum said SAIX went down and thats why the speed was crap, so is this speed boost because SAIX is back up? And more importantly, when is it gonna stop being fast again? Does anyone have any insight?
 
Hi Slim,
I wonder if it not a case of the telkom Speedtest having been fixed.

Results on the Telkom Speed test is

Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:

* Download time: 3.782 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 1078.8 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 132.2 (kiloBytes/second)

However Speed Tests on the ADSLGuide is as follows:

Broadband Speed Test Results

Results from broadband speed test recorded on Sunday, 08 May 2005, 04:52.
Your Connection

Direction Actual Speed True Speed (estimated)
Downstream 214 Kbps (26.8 KB/sec) 231 Kbps (inc. overheads)
Upstream 171 Kbps (21.4 KB/sec) 184 Kbps (inc. overheads)

Hmmm :confused:
 
Stanford at fisrt was busy, but then:
TCP/Web100 Network Diagnostic Tool v5.2.1e
click START to begin
Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 137.62Kb/s
running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 302.49kb/s
Your PC is connected to a Cable/DSL modem
Information: Other network traffic is congesting the link

What is interesting, in the detail:

The theoretical network limit is 0.28 Mbps
The transmit buffer (63.0 KByte) limits the application to 0.78 Mbps
Your receive buffer (249.0 KByte) limits the application to 3.06 Mbps
The network based flow control limits the application to 1.80 Mbps

Any idea what this means. First time I see this so high (1.80 Mbps)
I wonder if WBS are experimenting again?
 
yeah but i got 170KB/s on a download, no one can fix that and even 120 on a single thread internationally. Sometimes throught the night (haven't slept) some sites just don't open though (including this one)

also the speed test at telkom isn't fixed because the calculation is done on your pc with javascript (and you can easily view the code), although the file you download ISN'T 500KB, I did notice that much
 
I also had a problem opening myadsl last night...prob server maintence...CUz i was using an ISDN line...
 
If I could get Telkoms page to load I might help with the test, international pings are timing out and some local too it seems. :rolleyes:
 
EarthWeb Tester.

File Size: 150.005 KB
Time Elapsed: 3.044 seconds

394.24 Kbps
(49.28 KBps)

Telkom Speed tester

Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:

Download time: 185.166 seconds
Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
Estimated line speed: 22 (kilobits/second)
Estimated line speed: 2.7 (kiloBytes/second)
:p


CNET- BB tester

27 Kbps - You 27 kbps
28.8 Kbps Dial-up 28.8k
 
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yeah sounds like me. awesome international speeds and crappy local speeds
and this always seem to happen when iburst does some 'urgent' backhaul.

i wander who is 'abusing' the network now :rolleyes:
 
Darke said:
If I could get Telkoms page to load I might help with the test, international pings are timing out and some local too it seems. :rolleyes:
Click to expand...

Similar experience here.

Telkom speed test timed out once. On second attempt:

* Download time: 102.015 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 40 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 4.9 (kiloBytes/second)

My usual ping tests:

----195.92.95.5 PING Statistics----
66 packets transmitted, 16 packets received, 75% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 430/441/490

----196.4.160.2 PING Statistics----
66 packets transmitted, 26 packets received, 60% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 40/68/110

----196.30.31.120 PING Statistics----
66 packets transmitted, 66 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 50/71/140
 
To WBS, all is well..

Reply from 196.30.31.100: bytes=4 time=40ms TTL=255
Reply from 196.30.31.100: bytes=4 time=60ms TTL=255
Reply from 196.30.31.100: bytes=4 time=70ms TTL=255

Int. Sites.

Reply from 208.172.48.222: bytes=4 time=551ms TTL=237
Request timed out.
Reply from 208.172.48.222: bytes=4 time=621ms TTL=237
Request timed out.
 
Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:

Download time: 490.813 seconds
Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
Estimated line speed: 8.3 (kilobits/second)
Estimated line speed: 1 (kiloBytes/second)

hmm...we're cooking this morning
 
Mine seems ok:

Telkom:
Below is the data used to calculate your download speed:

* Download time: 4.188 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 974.2 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 119.4 (kiloBytes/second)

Stanford:

Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
running 10s outbound test (client to server) . . . . . 104.69Kb/s
running 10s inbound test (server to client) . . . . . . 248.82kb/s
 
mine has improved some what

* Download time: 8.016 seconds
* Size of file: 500 KiloBytes
* Estimated line speed: 509 (kilobits/second)
* Estimated line speed: 62.4 (kiloBytes/second)

mcafee
227.92 Kbps
(28.49 KBps)
 
that google DDOS attack was awesome, I watched it for 2 hours (no I didn't have anything better to do)

can you imagine the kind of bandwith you need to DDOS key google servers?
 
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