Any VoIP provider with even a remotely respectable billing system will have heartbeat checks for balance on pre-paid calls.
It is pretty normal in the industry to delay charging calls until they are done (or even later) on post-paid accounts for scalability reasons but post processing for...
I never opened one since I was already moving ISP's anyway, but with another ISP I'm not having the issues, funny enough people that I know that use cool ideas in other areas aren't having the issue neither.
I'm also in Eversdal and was also having this issue on my 200mb (up to early today when I cancelled and deactivated the service), international traffic was literally crawling without routing through a VPN.
I don't know in what world any packet loss is normal for a 10 hop route but ok.
as I said, it's bursts, it loses several packets and then stops for 1-2 minutes, if it was actually "sparse" it wouldn't be noticeable.
I ran a pingplotter from my PC that is connected through CAT7 straight to my router:
I keep getting this "loss burts" where my loss in game jumps to 15%, as I said it is better but still happening.
I haven't actually done a MTR again but while it's definitely way better now, I am still getting spikes of 3% loss when playing csgo on servers hosted at hetzner
Yep, everyone play scrims there so... :(, the worst is that it has been getting progressively worse as time go by, at the moment it is literally unplayable, I just time out every 30 seconds.
Since I actually have official matches to play I will probably end up cancelling CISP monday and moving...
Am I the only one being driven crazy by the loss to hetzner servers from CISP? with the luck fact that 90% of CS:GO SA servers are hosted at hetzner it seriously is driving me nuts :(