Best ISP for Gaming

[Grumpy Old Man]

I am looking for the best ISP for online gaming in Pretoria. Been using CrystalWeb with a 4Meg ADSL line atm but it has reached the point where online gaming is impossible. Mostly play Gran Turismo Sport, Project Cars on PS4 and PUBG on PC. Considering getting an account specifically for gaming. My downloads and normal trafic are still ok on CW (most of the time )

Any recommendations?

 

[Dan C]

I find VOX fatpipe gives me the best latency.

 

[envo]

I am looking for the best ISP for online gaming in Pretoria. Been using CrystalWeb with a 4Meg ADSL line atm but it has reached the point where online gaming is impossible. Mostly play Gran Turismo Sport, Project Cars on PS4 and PUBG on PC. Considering getting an account specifically for gaming. My downloads and normal trafic are still ok on CW (most of the time )

Any recommendations?

Are you downloading while you play games? And don't think your kids/wife using the wifi won't affect it

The amount of times I've heard "no dad/honey I'm not doing ANYTHING online" while they're just casually updating several apps/games cannot be counted on one hand...

Did you change some QoS settings to allow for your gaming to take priority on the network?

Have you considered going Fibre?

 

[Grumpy Old Man]

Are you downloading while you play games? And don't think your kids/wife using the wifi won't affect it

The amount of times I've heard "no dad/honey I'm not doing ANYTHING online" while they're just casually updating several apps/games cannot be counted on one hand...

Did you change some QoS settings to allow for your gaming to take priority on the network?

Have you considered going Fibre?

Unfortunately fibre is not an option yet. Had my pavement dug open 2 years ago, but the fibre has not been activated. Downloads are set to after hours, and nobody on the internet. Thanks, I will trying playing around with QoS and disable Wifi to make everybody except me is offline.

 

[Grumpy Old Man]

I find VOX fatpipe gives me the best latency.

Thank you. Im going to give it a go.

 

[cavedog]

Thank you. Im going to give it a go.

Sorry to bring up and old post but did you try Vox? How are they for ADSL?

For ADSL, VDSL and Fibre up to 40Mbps I actually recommend https://www.infogro.co.za

My tests with a free capped account proved very nice local and international latency. Latency to France for League of legends and paladins was somewhere in the line of 185ms and 165ms to London from Gauteng.

 

[cavedog]

Thanks for the response cavedog, I'll do some research on them and see what they are like. I'm based in East London, Eastern Cape so I hope that won't be too much of a factor. Just got my telephone line installed today, so very excited for the future.

I have the option to either go with VDSL or ADSL, what would you recommend? My most important factor is having the lowest possible latency. The Telkom guy reckons in cable length, I live about 500m - 600m from the exchange with just one box between us.

With ADSL and VDSL Openserve runs them on 2 modes. Fast path and Interleave. Interleave adds about 15ms or so to your latency. Interleave is the only mode for VDSL so might be better to be on fast path if latency is a priority for you. Since you are close to the dslam line quality should not be an issue.

As for infogro and like ANY adsl provider you can save some buck by moving your adsl/vdsl line to a ISP and then you can use different ISP's by simply changing the PPPoE details.

 

[cavedog]

So if latency is a concern for me and interleave is the only mode for VDSL, it will be better for me to just stick with ADSL and ask them to put me on fast path? I hope I understood that correctly.

If your line is good you should default on Fast Path but if you go with a high speed profile and the line stats are not as good then you might end off on interleave. A message to any of their social media or online chat feature to ask to move you to fast path is the quickest way to get it sorted.

You will be able to see if you are on fast path or interleave in your adsl/vdsl router.

Also once your adsl is up and running InfoGro has a 10GB free capped account which you can test and see how it works before buying.

 

[Rohan]

If your line is good you should default on Fast Path but if you go with a high speed profile and the line stats are not as good then you might end off on interleave. A message to any of their social media or online chat feature to ask to move you to fast path is the quickest way to get it sorted.

You will be able to see if you are on fast path or interleave in your adsl/vdsl router.

Also once your adsl is up and running InfoGro has a 10GB free capped account which you can test and see how it works before buying.

Been trying for a month to get some really simple info from Infogro as I wanted to use them for a gaming account.

Can anyone tell me what they are like, what backbone they use etc. I am on VDSL. I wonder what the support is really like if they can't even give me basic info.

 

[cavedog]

Been trying for a month to get some really simple info from Infogro as I wanted to use them for a gaming account.

Can anyone tell me what they are like, what backbone they use etc. I am on VDSL. I wonder what the support is really like if they can't even give me basic info.

They are a smaller ISP than the rest. They manage their own network so they aren't just reselling. Their website is relatively easy to signup with a they offer 10GB free for a couple of days so you can test their network. Why don't you just signup and test it before you decide to use them?

 

[Rohan]

They are a smaller ISP than the rest. They manage their own network so they aren't just reselling. Their website is relatively easy to signup with a they offer 10GB free for a couple of days so you can test their network. Why don't you just signup and test it before you decide to use them?

I signed up, they changed the free account to 5GB. Things went smoothly untill around 8:30pm then started getting massive spikes. Went over to VOX and it was fine. Switched back to InfoGro and the spikes started again while gaming. Will do some pingplotter test etc tomorrow night and see if I can find where the problems are.