Is Orange data network headed down the trash bin?
By the way orange has its 3g gsm network up in the cbd! On 12/03/2010, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
Before I went on my trip, things were not bad on the Orange network. Edge would give upto 20KBytes/Sec data trasnfer rates while 3G+ would sustain upto 35KBytes/Sec data tranfer rates. Been back for a few days and both their services are Edge 12-3KBytes/Sec while 3G+ is bursty around 8-18KBytes/Sec! Now they seem to be playing around with tcp window lengths and causing data issues. Its impossible to work remotely at these speeds rates.
Something is wrong in Kenya, especially with network services and the people given the responsibilty to maintain them. Why is it impossible for network operators to sustain data throughputs on reliable services? Why is too difficult to fix this problem? Why do we need to rant every few months and something gets done! This is BS...!! Just because Safcom has been operating data services on trial and experimental basis ever since it went on air does not mean other operators follow the Monkey See, Monkey Do behaviour.
Come on telcos... :-(
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I have done this test in the cbd at ktda plaza on orange 3g gsm.
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Job Muriuki <muriukin@gmail.com> wrote:
I have done this test in the cbd at ktda plaza on orange 3g gsm.
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@Job, thnks for the test and for sharing the info. I'm sharing my thots here. The uplink rate is somewhat tooooo little and thus lead to all sorts of problems. Probably the reason they have issues on Egde. That 20:1 ratio applied on RX/TX is very wierd, seems a poor gateway allocation which in turn is poor design. Did telco enginners ever attend TCP classes to understand that sessions need bandwidth, why are they designing systems on a scheme similar to a UDP Receive only system? If Orange wants to provide a reliable broadband scenario, I'd think that they went for 4:1/6:1 basis to ensure data session have enough bandwidth to complete TCP requirements. How does this all affect you? So you download a file, while browse another page at the same time. The network will start to de-grade immediately file download session starts. And you cannot open another webpage even for basic browsing. Question : Did Orange get past that 3g license issue of high fees and are now rolling out the network? Me thots. :-)
Hi, this is interesting ,,, the problem is this... after configuration, the vendor engineer has a lot of work left and the optimisation of the uplink and downlink is usually left to operator engineers or optimisation engineers... the engineer who originally configures gprs is only supposed to make it work [with default values], with a few test subscribers and his work is done.. the rest is usually up to the network operator. going forward,,, lets see whether they can be convinced to increase the uplink and downlink QoS to 2mbps / 4 mbps
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