Who has the best latencies saix or is ?

[ForSure]

Hey Guys

just wondering again :confused:

who is the best provider for Gaming etc for adsl regarding latenicies

Does saix or IS have better latencies?

local game servers eg : saix game servers
thanks for your guys help

[Wolfling]

If you play on a local saix server, then saix will be better.

I play mostly international games and I have found IS to be better for that. IS has higher pingtimes (600ms to telkoms 400ms) but IS dont shape the connection so in the end it works better for gaming.

Just be warned that the IS connection gets shakky based on the weather. They use satalite connections and if the dish they use to get out the country has a thunder storm near it your connection go up and down a lot.

[Moederloos]

Not being a gamer, I was going to say SAIX should be better (cable should beat sat anytime).
But, would not be surprised if Telkom (spit) managed to fark that up, too.

Any idea if ISDSL over fibre is better than SAIX?

[Bjorn]

IS is useless for local gaming beacause of the peering issues between SAIX and themselves, Get any SAIX account if you want to play on their servers, any reseller doesnt make a difference from what i have seen, even an unshaped account makes no difference for local gaming.

[nGAGEd55]

Pings to Sgs from SAIX and IS are the same, usually bout 40ms, and I play quite a bit of BF2 from my ISDSL acc, never had any problems, AFAIK their peering issues have been sorted out a while ago.

[.geek]

TelkomInternet, DSL 384, CPT:


Pinging games.saix.net [198.54.202.66] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 198.54.202.66: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=250
Reply from 198.54.202.66: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=250
Reply from 198.54.202.66: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=250
Reply from 198.54.202.66: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=250
Reply from 198.54.202.66: bytes=32 time=34ms TTL=250

Ping statistics for 198.54.202.66:
Packets: Sent = 5, Received = 5, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 34ms, Maximum = 35ms, Average = 34ms

Edit: Used to average about 15ms a month ago.