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I was on I burst from beta stage to January 2008.I loved my I burst and the way it worked.Unfortunately they have not kept up with the speeds that DSL deliver.I had a tower 300 metres away and speeds were excellent but dealing with the incompetent staff made me change.I cannot complain as I have never lost my DSL connection.When I check the forums I see hardly anyone now on the I burst forum and relatively few postings.
 
I'm on iBurst through MWEB. While iBurst is slow compared to 4Mbit ADSL, it is
fast compared to dial up :) and I'm also close to a tower, so I get full 1Mbit speed
for virtually all downloads (as long as I have two or more threads). At one thread
it usually goes at 500-600kbps. The softcap is very nice though, a dedicated 64kbps
connection after you're capped and cap carryover for one month is also worthwhile.

Obviously the connection is shaped and has poor latency. Some people
on these forums claim that they can still use torrents at full speed but
even if you're not that lucky, you can use a direct download http service
which works at full speed before and after cap (after cap it works 64kbps).

IF NEOTEL comes along with their R999 UNCAPPED plan, I will change over
to that.

At present, the cost of an ADSL line rental and same cap plus
softcap afterwards is not economical when compared to the 5GB iBurst.
I don't game or do torrents though.
 
I'm still here. Been here since beta (Dec 2004), and still on iBurst. I avoid torrents, don't play online games that need low latency, and get my full advertised speed (108KB/s at burst, 80KB/s avg). I don't contact the helpdesk, pay my own way, and it works for everyone. I just moved down to the 3GB Classic package, month-to-month all the way since my contract expired.
 
New speed throttling strategy

Hi there,

Could you guys please confirm how you are getting those download speeds?

I have been on iBurst for about 2 years. I am close to a tower and have very good signal - and download rates, according to iBurst. Their own speed test never gives me less than 800 Kb/s, usually it's somewhere in the 900 Kb/s.

However, since sometime in June, it seems they have started to throttle downloads because since then I never seem to be able to get more than +- 20 KB/s for a single HTTP download. I can open multiple downloads at the same time and then get +- 100 KB/s total, so clearly the bandwidth is there, I just cannot use all of it for a single connection. Have used other download tests, they confirm my suspicions.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Thanks,
Julian.
 
Julian777 said:
Hi there,

Could you guys please confirm how you are getting those download speeds?

I have been on iBurst for about 2 years. I am close to a tower and have very good signal - and download rates, according to iBurst. Their own speed test never gives me less than 800 Kb/s, usually it's somewhere in the 900 Kb/s.

However, since sometime in June, it seems they have started to throttle downloads because since then I never seem to be able to get more than +- 20 KB/s for a single HTTP download. I can open multiple downloads at the same time and then get +- 100 KB/s total, so clearly the bandwidth is there, I just cannot use all of it for a single connection. Have used other download tests, they confirm my suspicions.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Thanks,
Julian.
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Can you download free download manager, and configure it to use 4 or more download sections?
 
Ok, well my understanding is that after cap you throttled to 64k? I use IDM and I get full speed (100K +) but once capped I only see 64k.

So is there something I'm missing where u can achieve full speed by some other means?
 
cryptic1 said:
Ok, well my understanding is that after cap you throttled to 64k? I use IDM and I get full speed (100K +) but once capped I only see 64k.

So is there something I'm missing where u can achieve full speed by some other means?
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I don't get full speed after cap. I only get 64k. Some of my
http downloads max out at 50-60KB per sec for single threads,
but if I go 3 threads, I get full 110KB/sec constantly NOT
just in bursts, the connection STAYS at >100KB/sec for 2-3 hours
at a time, or however long the download takes.
 
Hi there,

Could you guys please confirm how you are getting those download speeds?

I have been on iBurst for about 2 years. I am close to a tower and have very good signal - and download rates, according to iBurst. Their own speed test never gives me less than 800 Kb/s, usually it's somewhere in the 900 Kb/s.

However, since sometime in June, it seems they have started to throttle downloads because since then I never seem to be able to get more than +- 20 KB/s for a single HTTP download. I can open multiple downloads at the same time and then get +- 100 KB/s total, so clearly the bandwidth is there, I just cannot use all of it for a single connection. Have used other download tests, they confirm my suspicions.

Anyone else experiencing this?
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use programs like getright, flashget etc... then you'll see full 120Kbps on your iburst.

I'm still with iburst, speed is always consistently on 1Mbit but helpdesk are morons and accounts hired monkies!
 
im on iburst ... mainly cause theres no telphone lines left in my area(stolen) , no neotel , pathetic 3g , no wimax ... etc...
 
fishfly said:
use programs like getright, flashget etc... then you'll see full 120Kbps on your iburst.

I'm still with iburst, speed is always consistently on 1Mbit but helpdesk are morons and accounts hired monkies!
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Hi Guys, I do use a download manager (FDM) and yes, then I can get full speeds. However, not all sites support download managers (e.g. if Resume is not supported). And actually, that's besides the point I am making.

Throttling torrents is one thing, but plain old normal HTTP? How many ordinary users out there, who pay for "1Mb/s" aren't even aware that they actually never get more than +- 150 Kb/s because of this? Not everyone knows about download managers - why should they?

Julian.
 
Hi Guys, I do use a download manager (FDM) and yes, then I can get full speeds. However, not all sites support download managers (e.g. if Resume is not supported). And actually, that's besides the point I am making.

Throttling torrents is one thing, but plain old normal HTTP? How many ordinary users out there, who pay for "1Mb/s" aren't even aware that they actually never get more than +- 150 Kb/s because of this? Not everyone knows about download managers - why should they?

Julian.
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hence why they the people that iburst targets to fek in uranus...
 
Also consider that even if you are just browsing the web, you aren't getting what you are paying for.

Say you open up a typical web page nowadays with plenty of text and images on it. I believe most browsers will open up more than one connection to the page to download the images, so at least you aren't completely limited by a single 20KB/s connection. However, largish images, flash etc. will still download at only 20KB/s, so your overall page loading times are slower than they should be.

I am interested to know how many people have noticed (or better yet, complained about) this 20KB/s throttle yet? Or does it not apply to everybody/everywhere?

Cheers
 
Doesn't apply to me. I get an decent 60Kb/s on a single thread - the limit is on the other side, more often than not.

Give us a download link to test - let's see what we come up with.
 
It is my contetion that I burst originally had a great deal going .There speeds matched 1meg dsl.Most of the time you did not have to worry about downtime which was important to me.They nave the capability of launching a network that can run at 2 megs I believe but do not install that capability ask why not.Dont get me wrong J loved my I burst and still paid for it while for almost a year while my daughter used dsl.A great pity they did not keep up with the rest of technology.In fact i joined My broadband due to I burst.
 
Raithlin said:
Doesn't apply to me. I get an decent 60Kb/s on a single thread - the limit is on the other side, more often than not.

Give us a download link to test - let's see what we come up with.
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Please try http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp and download the latest JAVA JVM (offline install). They should have plenty bandwidth. Otherwise, you could point me to a URL that you get good results from, for me to try.

Right now the above site maxes out for me at about +-21 KB/s, even though the iBurst speed test reports a download speed of 896 Kb/s.

I also downloaded a decent speed testing tool from http://www.broadbandspeedtest.net. The testing seems quite comprehensive - but the results I get after running it are not at all impressive.

I am convinced that the iBurst reported speeds and what I am actually getting (from a single connection/thread anyway) are two different things.

Cheers
Julian.
 
Julian777 said:
Please try http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp and download the latest JAVA JVM (offline install). They should have plenty bandwidth. Otherwise, you could point me to a URL that you get good results from, for me to try.

Right now the above site maxes out for me at about +-21 KB/s, even though the iBurst speed test reports a download speed of 896 Kb/s.

I also downloaded a decent speed testing tool from http://www.broadbandspeedtest.net. The testing seems quite comprehensive - but the results I get after running it are not at all impressive.

I am convinced that the iBurst reported speeds and what I am actually getting (from a single connection/thread anyway) are two different things.

Cheers
Julian.
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Interesting results.
I started the download with Firefox 3 as a download manager - it hovered around 19KB/s. I stopped after a minute. Then I restarted the download using Free Download Manager. It started up 4 threads, and maxed out at over 100KB/s. I reduced the number of threads to 1, and the speed reduced, but only to 60KB/s - on a single thread.

This leads me to believe that it may well be Firefox 3 that may be messing things around. Any ideas on that score?
 
Raithlin said:
Interesting results.
I started the download with Firefox 3 as a download manager - it hovered around 19KB/s. I stopped after a minute. Then I restarted the download using Free Download Manager. It started up 4 threads, and maxed out at over 100KB/s. I reduced the number of threads to 1, and the speed reduced, but only to 60KB/s - on a single thread.

This leads me to believe that it may well be Firefox 3 that may be messing things around. Any ideas on that score?
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You achieved these speeds while capped or uncapped?
 
I downloaded updates from apple.com on my Mac using the Update feature
of MacOS X. The speed was at a consistent 800-900 kb/sec. It was a single
threaded download as far as I can tell.
 
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