Best ISP for gaming?

I do not know the priority settings of the options below, i just have some real word experience

My first choice would be a WebAfrica Capped Busniess account..... 5-20ms pings locally

My second choice is Vox FatPipe, pings are not as good as Web Africa, around 30-60ms pings, but the package in general is cheaper and gives the best performance accross the board
 
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Most people would want to crucify me for saying this, but I would suggest Telkom.

I've been hopping from ISP to ISP. Every time it was the same. Browse through threads, reading the praises an ISP is given and I sign up. And everything is awesome for about two months then everything goes down the toilet and the same people that sang praises start with the verbal assault. I got tired and just went to Telkom with the intention to just suck it up and stay there. To my surprise everything works pretty well.
 
Arksun said:
Most people would want to crucify me for saying this, but I would suggest Telkom.

I've been hopping from ISP to ISP. Every time it was the same. Browse through threads, reading the praises an ISP is given and I sign up. And everything is awesome for about two months then everything goes down the toilet and the same people that sang praises start with the verbal assault. I got tired and just went to Telkom with the intention to just suck it up and stay there. To my surprise everything works pretty well.
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true dat....

All ISP's starts off great... and at some point loses the plot.
 
I'v tested the IS backbone (crystal web and web africa) and the mtn backbone (afrihost) and mweb beats both in terms of latency locally and internationally.
 
Arksun said:
Most people would want to crucify me for saying this, but I would suggest Telkom.

I've been hopping from ISP to ISP. Every time it was the same. Browse through threads, reading the praises an ISP is given and I sign up. And everything is awesome for about two months then everything goes down the toilet and the same people that sang praises start with the verbal assault. I got tired and just went to Telkom with the intention to just suck it up and stay there. To my surprise everything works pretty well.
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+1 for Telkom. Always a good experience when playing online.
 
Been with telkom for almost 3 years. For most of the time i was on their uncapped account which was O.K, changed recently to capped and im having a MUCH better experience. Gaming is awesome on EU servers
 
I flit between account constatntly because they're losing there **** with pings.

ATM Afrihost, Axxess, Vox and even WebAfrica pings are falling off in the evening.
 
Loppas said:
I'v tested the IS backbone (crystal web and web africa) and the mtn backbone (afrihost) and mweb beats both in terms of latency locally and internationally.
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Mweb should give you the same pings as IS.

Also depends on where you reside in the country.
 
ghostR said:
Mweb should give you the same pings as IS.

Also depends on where you reside in the country.
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Mweb is actually the only ISP giving stable local ping for gaming atm. Judging from the ping patterns its not IS thats the problem - WebAfrica and Vox look different - so it must be at the ISP level.

I had a Mweb 2Mbps uncapped trial last week and never had a problem.
 
Shard said:
Mweb is actually the only ISP giving stable local ping for gaming atm. Judging from the ping patterns its not IS thats the problem - WebAfrica and Vox look different - so it must be at the ISP level.

I had a Mweb 2Mbps uncapped trial last week and never had a problem.
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My Telkom account seems good for gaming. Low latency. Very good gaming experience overall. Even international servers seems ok.
 
ghostR said:
Mweb should give you the same pings as IS.

Also depends on where you reside in the country.
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Yeah. It also depends on the servers you connect to. I have a 4mbps line and play mainly CS GO which has mweb based servers so i get 1-2ms lower from mweb account which won't make any noticeable difference. Internationally on mweb i get 153-154ms to uk and on IS i get between 160-170ms, but i don't think that will make any noticeable difference either.
 
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