Your opinion - which service for gaming ?

[Methuselah]

From a new user intending to get into broadband :-

I would like to hear from you folk about experiences etc on which way to go.
The primary use of the connection is intended to be telephony-related ...
... improved band-width, probably wanting always-on and then to use
two VOIP and POTS combination phones over the same link.

You guessed it ... a home office with two users and I want to know
whether I'll be able to use the same connection at night ...
... to finally get into online gaming. :p

What should it be ... ADSL, ISDN, iBurst etc ?

Thanking you for your time.
Meths.

[killadoob]

dont go iburst for one

depending if you wanna games overseas or local.
but isdn is good for international gaming
adsl is awesome for local

with your two pc's all you do is network so that they both use one connection
but i repeat do not go with iburst gaming is really bad

[stoke]

I play on SAIX games server, so a SIAX connected provider is my only option. BF1942 gets lag of 12-25 ms using AYCE (30GB Cap - 1 Year one sided contract). I'm loving it - so far. International stuff seems ok, but not game'able. Local VIOP is good. Have downloaded from MS.com at about 40, and had decent voice conversations with a mate at the same time. But MS is a verrry high-bandwidth website, so its not a true reflection. Cost for my setup P/M = 600 + 480 = 1080 a MONTH. Ouch !!!!!

More info on AYCE =
http://www.mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=18267
and
http://www.mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?t=18284.

[DFantom]

If you are going to game, get ADSL. It is by far the best choice for gaming

[killadoob]

not if your gonna play on international servers

stoke why not download grade to 384 not much difference.

i think that ayce contract i signed is amazing hey stoke?
the pings on the local bf 1942 are same as mweb but int pings always gonna be bad

[stoke]

I'm going to hold on the downgrade for now. Last time I downgraded (Last year Aug (Saving for holiday)), just before I cancelled, it went realllllly bad. Busy starting up another damn online business (- take 6 - keep on trying -), so, once it's stable, i'll get another line and then use that line 4 the company, and then drop to 384.

But yip - still smiling over AYCE !!!!! :) :)

[lowrider]

It seems Telkom has blocked IS ADSL users from using games.saix.net. Any suggestions to use other alternatives:

7 10 ms 10 ms 20 ms cp1-rba-gi0-1.rtr.isnet.net [196.26.0.251]
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 10 ms 20 ms 10 ms tpr-ip-esr-1-ge-6-0-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.
.10.86]
10 * * * Request timed out.

[stoke]

Sheesh. Me quickly tries company's diginet link to IS...

C:\>tracert games.saix.net

Tracing route to games.saix.net [196.4.79.14]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <10 ms <10 ms 10 ms <deleted>
2 20 ms 20 ms 20 ms 168.209.117.81
3 20 ms 21 ms 20 ms cp1-rba-gi0-1.rtr.isnet.net [196.26.0.251]
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 70 ms 100 ms 90 ms tpr-ip-esr-1-ge-6-0-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [196.43
.10.86]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 * * * Request timed out.
8 * * * Request timed out.
9 ^C
C:\>ping games.saix.net

Pinging games.saix.net [196.4.79.14] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ouch - nice.

[Methuselah]

Hello again.

Lowrider :
If this is recent occurence, it may be a temporary outage.
At at work (Nedcor) and cannot get to the telkom.co.za hompepage either.
(It went down about two hours ago ... so assume it may be a localised problem. )

All:
I'm enjoying the insight and comments, thanx, guys ;-))

[Chris]

AYCE, at the moment seems to be the most cost-effective solution because of its lower price but watch this space - Imaginet are soon going to be releasing higher caps and are more trustworthy imo than AYCE.

[FireFLi]

IS has switched over to their satellite network and aren't using the SAT3/SAIX exchange, saw my ping times dramatically increase after the switch over but the browsing in very speedy. Got a 3GB unshapped account from saol and now they hover around 500 on international servers.

[killadoob]

500 is good?

[stoke]

Meth - druid - where in the world do you want to play, and what do you want to play?

[Crash]

Wait till Jawug get their peering link to the SGS Gaming Servers..... :p :p :p :p

[Tinuva]

Guys pinging SGS in dos wont work from any isp, not even from SAIX adsl... as they block ICMP packets to the SGS network.... If you really wanna test it from ISADSL, test it with a game.

[MaD]

- - - - - -
Pinging karoo.mweb.co.za [196.2.128.100] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 196.2.128.100: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=114
Reply from 196.2.128.100: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=114
Reply from 196.2.128.100: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=114
Reply from 196.2.128.100: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=114

Ping statistics for 196.2.128.100:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 16ms, Maximum = 27ms, Average = 20ms
- - - - - -
Latency in CS:S around 25-45 on Gamezone and 55-95 on SGS..

[stoke]

Wait till Jawug get their peering link to the SGS Gaming Servers..... :p :p :p :p

What - When - Ke ?
That would be freekin awesome.
Holy karamba.
Me goto http://www.jawug.za.net/WikiNews and looksee for news ...
Dang nothing.

[Methuselah]

Meth - druid - where in the world do you want to play, and what do you want to play?

FPS. BF, HLCS, UT and the like.

I'm happy to play locally only, understanding that it's kinda harsh trying that internationally. Fortunately there seems to be reasonable support if you go to SAIX using ADSL.

Still, one of my lines got taken out (lightning again) over the weekend.
That's one reason why I'm wanting to go wireless.
From these forums, however, it appears that this is a no-go for FPS gaming.

BTW: Any advice on where to go looking around for opinions on the effectiveness of putting up a lightning conductor (One of those massive iron flagpole jobs) . I've already had the house wired with multiple earth spikes, surge protection etc, etc.

[stoke]

Lightning conductor pole thingy - I phoned a thatching company and convinced them to put me through to their supplier. Expect a lot more lightning strikes though - seems to attract the lightning

Somewhere in either this forum or IBurst's forum, IBusretrs were commenting on playing castle wolfenstein (free versio) using IBurst with no problems. Maybee you shouldn't giveup on IBurst just yet....

[Methuselah]

...shouldn't giveup on IBurst just yet ...

I'm certainly not going to touch them with the proverbial barge-pole until the current nonsense has been sorted out. ( avoids Sentech V2 ;-)

I guess a lot depends on the bandwidth required by each game.
I'll go hunting around to find those chats, thanx.

[killadoob]

iburst is kinda like pamela anderson
imagine she has herpes as much as you know you shouldnt put your thing near her thing you just cant help yourself( this is how disease spreads) and yes i think iburst is that.

[Clipse]

LOL the first sort-wise-comment :-))))

Damn I just had to picture that :/

[killadoob]

yea hehe just pity bout my spelling mistake should read better now