Amobia

[diegoa]

Hi

I am getting sick of all the timeouts and disconnects on Screamer.

Has anyone tried Amobia?

http://www.amobia.com/

 

[Techrat]

I have no idea, but if you're experiencing problems please give your views on my thread here, http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthr...in-Kensington-have-WiMax-(Screamer-and-Telkom).

 

[Rouxenator]

I was on Amobia for 2 years and I still have a couple of friends that are on it, one of which runs a business on his 3mbps connection.

You can't go wrong with Amobia. Please ask if you have any questions.

 

[Jagtiger]

I was on Amobia for 2 years and I still have a couple of friends that are on it, one of which runs a business on his 3mbps connection.

You can't go wrong with Amobia. Please ask if you have any questions.

I have few questions...

Q1: What latencies I can experience for local and international gaming?
Q2: I heard of 3 day rolling window on "unlimited", so it is capped to 100GB a month on 3Mbit?
Q3: To what extent it is shaped?
Q4: Do torrents work?
Q5: Do news servers work?

I'll appreciate some answers, if they are possible.

 

[Rouxenator]

Good questions, as to the latencies I do not have a number for you, I think there are some other Amobia threads here. I used it for VOIP and it was great, its only the lat mile (or 5) that goes wireless, the rest is wired.
Yes, they do have a rolling window on uncapped which is why I left after 15 days.
Their uncapped is rebadged M-Web so that is the shaping you are looking at.
Torrents do work, especially after hours.
I don't know news servers.

 

[Jagtiger]

Good questions, as to the latencies I do not have a number for you, I think there are some other Amobia threads here. I used it for VOIP and it was great, its only the lat mile (or 5) that goes wireless, the rest is wired.
Yes, they do have a rolling window on uncapped which is why I left after 15 days.
Their uncapped is rebadged M-Web so that is the shaping you are looking at.
Torrents do work, especially after hours.
I don't know news servers.

Thank you.

Most worried about rolling window, shaping and latencies.

 

[Bedford]

Can any1 give feedback concerning latencies to local server and reliabilty?

 

[jacksback]

Check out my hate Telkom thread. I did some speed and ping tests after I joined Amobia

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/254106-I-HATE-Telkom-Last-Mile-Alternative

 

[Techrat]

Your ping test says WebAfrica Subscriber? http://www.speedtest.net/result/895150238.png So is Amobia provisioned over WA? 'cos somewhere I read it was over Mweb.

What happens if you do another ping test?

 

[Rouxenator]

Amobia Uncapped is Mweb and their capped accounts are WebAfrica. It used to be Telkom ADSL before they had uncapped.

 

[AENIGMA]

Ive been on their capped 3mb option for the past month. No hassles and it works brilliantly for gaming on ps3 and xbox.

 

[Bedford]

Does things like rain or bad weather affect the connection at all?

 

[Rouxenator]

I was about 5km from the highsite and I never had problems. Even when my DStv crapped out because of heavy rain my Amobia was always up and running.

 

[rhowell]

AS a potential customer, is there anything I should be concerned about with Amobia? All I have heard are good comments, sounds too good to be true.

I'll be needing them for a business tools as well, so I need a fairly low latency solution. Is it really possible to get 3Mb/s consistent downloads with them on the 3Mb/s solution?

Thanks

 

[Rouxenator]

They are excellent for business if you are on a capped account. Their rolling average on uncapped packages is a bit of a concern. But apart from that they are brilliant and more reliable than ADSL.

 

[Darksun]

sorry can you please explain this Rolling window on uncapped accounts ?
as i jsut came across thier website now. and i am hoping that if they good enough to play wow on the 1MB connection ( uncapped ) and i can get a signal then i am definatly going to sign up.

 

[Rouxenator]

You will have to ask them about the rolling 3 day cap, but its something like 10GB on 3mbps, 7GB on 2bmps, 4GB on 1mbps and 2GB on 384kbps.

But ask them about it and what it means and how it is enforced and all that. All I know is they have such a system in place.

 

[Darksun]

thanks... well lets see if they can help me out... here is hoping they can hook me up

 

[Rouxenator]

Cool - good luck.

Amobia should really get a rep on these forums. I think its just me and two other guys that normally deal with Amobia questions - and I canceled my Amobia account 6 months ago already

 

[redcliff]

On the uncapped 3mbps connection - a little hit and miss to be frank. When it's good it's awesome, when it's bad, well then it's bad. I would definitely NOT be going uncapped for gaming. Pingtests (Pingtest.net) typically come back with line quality being C or D (packet loss of 2 -5%, ping times of 70ms - 100ms and jitter of 40ms) but often (too often) get a line quality of F (packet loss of 5% to 30%... ping times of 500ms+).

This unpredictability makes it really no good for anything else than mail, web and downloads. VOIP is a no go, Youtube / streaming is painful as it's flying one minute then just hangs even streaming simple 128kbps radio stutters at times (and I'm talking weekends, so this can't be shaping). For normal web is fine (latency is sometime noticeable) and downloads is great, i typically get 330 - 350KB/s on large downloads (granted they typically happen overnight).

So really a mixed bag, can be great for what you need, but can't see anyone gaming on this nor streaming audio / video unless you are OK with a 2 minute video pausing 5 times...