Kendall Julian wrote:

>Noticed this afternoon my Jetstart was noticeably slower than normal.
>After 5.00pm it just kept getting worse and worse... I'm in Napier on
>the Marewa Exchange.
>
>Rang Xtra Jetstream help desk and they got me to do the Download
>Speed tests which gave me 1800Kbs logged onto Jetstreamgames, and
>25.3Kbs on xadsl. Even at 25.3Kbs it does't do justice to the
>reported speed - it might go dead for 5-8 seconds, then bursts a bit,
>then dead and so on.
>
>Probable reason given: New equipment installed in Napier today means
>many new Jetstart Users are getting full rate DSL until the rate
>limiting kicks in later on, thus a leeching frenzy has set-in. In the
>mean time the rest of us get a service quality of a wet bus ticket...
>
>

It's possible that last night you were moved from the 'old' RANs onto
their brand spanking new ultimately suckful high latency coz of packet
queueing instead of packet dropping don't do anything on your connection
coz you can't use ssh due to massive latency spikes even if your life
depended on it ERX system.

The last of the users were shifted off the old system in the early hours
of Wednesday morning.

I am still waiting after I sent a support request to telecom on
27/11/2003 about the high latency just to see what they'd say, and was
told in a reply that an asdl technician would be in "contact with you soon".

Gavin Grieve

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