
Up to and including Monday night, my HSPA has been working flawlessly. High speeds (often 1.5 Mbps and sometimes up to 2 or even 3 Mbps). It would connect fine. Come Tuesday, I was able to connect, but the speed is slower than dialup, ... terrible. Of course web pages are out of the question, although tonight is the first time I have been able to even 'see' a web page. Here are the results of a ping to one of the Exetel dns IP's.
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$ ping 220.233.0.3
PING 220.233.0.3 (220.233.0.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=21 ttl=59 time=7617 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=22 ttl=59 time=6611 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=23 ttl=59 time=5603 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=24 ttl=59 time=4601 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=25 ttl=59 time=3595 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=27 ttl=59 time=1727 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=29 ttl=59 time=120 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=30 ttl=59 time=99.0 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=54 ttl=59 time=1610 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=55 ttl=59 time=603 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=56 ttl=59 time=93.4 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=57 ttl=59 time=92.0 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=58 ttl=59 time=5736 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=120 ttl=59 time=9057 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=121 ttl=59 time=8050 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=122 ttl=59 time=7042 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=123 ttl=59 time=6034 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=128 ttl=59 time=1261 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=129 ttl=59 time=256 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=130 ttl=59 time=194 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=131 ttl=59 time=105 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=132 ttl=59 time=104 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=133 ttl=59 time=103 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=134 ttl=59 time=1631 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=135 ttl=59 time=623 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=136 ttl=59 time=121 ms
64 bytes from 220.233.0.3: icmp_seq=137 ttl=59 time=102 ms
^C
--- 220.233.0.3 ping statistics ---
146 packets transmitted, 27 received, 81% packet loss, time 145901ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 92.005/2696.146/9057.157/3027.515 ms, pipe 9
My setup is Ubuntu with an E169 modem (plugged direct, no router), and an external yagi antenna. This has worked fine for many months. Nothing has been changed on Ubuntu either. To prove that, I booted to XP Pro, and exactly the same problems showed up there, terrible speeds. My situation is not isolated either, as our neighbours (about 100 metres away) use Exetel HSPA, and they said they have the same problem. It happened within the same time frame, and they cannot even connect, I think.
We can probably rule out the weather. There have been no storms or such like for well over a week.
I have emailed support, but they have been of no help at all. I guess that's the problem with off shore support, the problem can't be dealt with first hand, or locally. Any remote support has to 'fly blind' of course, and is very limited.
Possibly this is a Optus tower problem ? Who can find out ?
It's 10:27 pm now, hopefully this post will be 'done' by midnight, ... here goes ....
Pete