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Interesting...

Seems the Internet Solutions offering is the way to go but IIRC there were lots of complaints in the past about latency and speed. Does IS still suffer from this problem?
 
It all depends on which package you take with IS, some of there accounts go via Sat, and some via Fibre. As much as i hate telscum, there accounts still remain the fastest for international and local.

Lately to many people are buying the IS 30Gb accounts, and there infrastructure cant handle all the traffic. So everybody is getting slow speeds.
 
It would be nice to see the other figures here, latency and details of how the tests were performed (sites and times)...I personally get better figures on a Telkom account than that but its obviously averaged.
 
Leftfoot said:
It would be nice to see the other figures here, latency and details of how the tests were performed (sites and times)...I personally get better figures on a Telkom account than that but its obviously averaged.
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Hi Leftfoot

This is just feedback from the two speed tests which formed part of the broadband survey. No latency tests were performed, but users did give feedback about their satisfaction rates which will be published later.

I hope this helps...
 
Bandwidth costs money, latency is forever.

For some people download speeds are important. But for other people latency is far more important. If you're connecting to international VPNs, or if you administer servers abroad, then the speed that you can type (and get feedback) determines your experience. Latency is also important for VOIP like Skype and for people playing multiplayer games. Latency can even affect the speed of browsing the Internet. I'm not going to do any imperical tests, but it is possible that a low-latency 512Kbps account would load http://news.bbc.co.uk faster than than a slightly higher latency 4096Kbps account.

Really, download performance only really affects one thing: download speed. Everything else is determined by latency.

Sadly, latency was not measured in this test. In my experience, nothing beats Telkom unshaped. I have a Verizon Business and a Telkom unshaped so I can't speak for IS.
 
As Brendon said, I missed the latency part of the test, though I imagine the test becomes a little more complicated. Something else I'd like to see is a comparison of the response for specific types of services, i.e. how does it do peer-to-peer (not necessarily filesharing, since Skype also uses peer-to-peer technology), how does it deal with international on-line games such as WoW, etc.
 
I agree, latency is the key. When switching between Telkom Internet shaped and unshaped I can feel the difference even when browsing the web. In terms of online gaming (Xbox 360 on Xbox LIVE) it is clearly evident that unshaped outperforms shaped in terms of reliability, latency and connectivity.

When I last tested Telkom Internet unshaped vs Verizon Business I found that the Verizon Business service actually outperformed the Telkom Internet unshaped service when it came to Xbox LIVE and online multi-player gaming.
 
EricsON said:
When I last tested Telkom Internet unshaped vs Verizon Business I found that the Verizon Business service actually outperformed the Telkom Internet unshaped service when it came to Xbox LIVE and online multi-player gaming.
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Would have to agree here, verizon's accounts are far superior to SAIX unshaped at the moment in the order of up to 200ms in improved latency.
 
lordnokon said:
It all depends on which package you take with IS, some of there accounts go via Sat, and some via Fibre. As much as i hate telscum, there accounts still remain the fastest for international and local.
Lately to many people are buying the IS 30Gb accounts, and there infrastructure cant handle all the traffic. So everybody is getting slow speeds.
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Running a 30GB account using sat vpn av getting 30KB/s sometime even 80KB/s
 
How come Verizon account has that much speed? Or do they have a limited amount of users not using much bandwidth?
 
Wolfling said:
Where do you order one of these Verizon Accounts?
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You can purchase unshaped accounts from webafrica @ R125/gig (prepaid or month to month). Webafrica allows you to choose which provider you wish to use (ie SAIX or Verizon). The option you prefer can be chosen at any time by adding either .s or .v to the end of your account user name.
 
if i become more of a gamer might look into these verizon accounts
 
Hades said:
Would have to agree here, verizon's accounts are far superior to SAIX unshaped at the moment in the order of up to 200ms in improved latency.
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interesting, pity unshaped accounts are so expensive.
 
Tiscali (London / UK) DSL speedtest @ 12:50am on 3rd Dec '07:

SAIX shaped: 302.3 kbps
IS shaped: 1,516.90 kbps

Nuff said? I was getting ~260.00 kbps through SAIX on earlier tests through Tiscali (also in the middle of the darn night when there should be little load) - half a 512 kbps line connection speed when I'm on a 4mb package... disgusting. Read this post and got the IS thru WebAfrica on the spot (meaning to for some time). Shame I have to pay more for IS, but in this turd world, I'm scraping the pennies so as to not scrape my grey matter.
 
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Nothing new to many, but I'll post my findings on latency here (IS very poor compared to SAIX).

PING TO BBC.CO.UK:

IS

PING 212.58.224.131 (212.58.224.131): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 212.58.224.131: icmp_seq=0 ttl=116 time=880.0 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.131: icmp_seq=2 ttl=116 time=940.0 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.131: icmp_seq=3 ttl=116 time=880.0 ms

--- 212.58.224.131 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 25% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 880.0/900.0/940.0 ms

saix

PING 212.58.224.131 (212.58.224.131): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 212.58.224.131: icmp_seq=0 ttl=112 time=410.0 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.131: icmp_seq=1 ttl=112 time=410.0 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.131: icmp_seq=2 ttl=112 time=400.0 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.224.131: icmp_seq=3 ttl=112 time=420.0 ms

--- 212.58.224.131 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 400.0/410.0/420.0 ms
 
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