Best uncapped account for WoW

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Hi

I usually use the internet for work, browsing, email etc. (some torrents now and again)... But I also want to resume playing WoW... Which of the uncapped services provides the best ping to EU WoW servers?
 
grimstoner said:
Hi

I usually use the internet for work, browsing, email etc. (some torrents now and again)... But I also want to resume playing WoW... Which of the uncapped services provides the best ping to EU WoW servers?
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I'm almost certain Mweb will be your ISP of choice. :)
 
Blaze786 said:
If you want to pay R2000 for an uncapped account...
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Never read the entire post, couldnt care.. i just read "best for wow", which is webafrica, as you will get latency with mweb uncapped.
 
Where is WoW servers hosted?

I get 250ms to UK and 540ms to South Korea with my Mweb uncapped. I think it actually better than Is capped accounts...
 
How many GB of WoW traffic could you possibly generate? 10GB/month?

If its less than 20GB/month, then it would be cheaper to get prepaid unshaped data bundles - like those R19/GB unshaped from Axxess. I'm just not sure if that specific account would give you decent latencies on WoW, but I assume it would.

Currently unshaped & uncapped ADSL is too expensive, unless you're running a business.
 
semaphore said:
Never read the entire post, couldnt care.. i just read "best for wow", which is webafrica, as you will get latency with mweb uncapped.
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You don't like reading much do you? It would have been a total 4 posts. Man. ???
 
Whichever one gives you unshaped as well without taking a chunk of your soul with it.

Problem with MWEB is that they pile on their excuses saying "You are aware you are on a shaped account". Meaning that they shape data on certain ports, giving priority to the web browsing and e-mail. They are ok for the most part, but don't expect them to be accountable for the service they render.
 
Thought it might be due to shaping, but even at 11:30PM last night, my latency never went below 800ms, and was most of the time between 1500 and 2500ms.
 
Even though it is not uncapped I would suggest that you get the Webafrica 25Gb package. 200-300 lat the last week and it has enough data to do the rest of the things normal people do on the net.
 
I have a 4Mb uncapped account from Mweb and my latency is usually around 500ms, although I have seen it go to the 300ms's at times :)

I have been looking around for a better account, but have had no luck yet. I tried out the Axxess lite unshapped 1GB for R19 last week, but the latency was exactly the same, if not worse, than Mweb shaped :mad:
 
Im on mweb uncapped 4 meg and i get 200-300 MS. when my dad downloads it goes up to 400 witch is still very good.
 
I don't play WoW, but I play LoL in which ping is arguably more important:

Mweb uncapped to US servers: 400-450ms.
Mweb uncapped to EU servers: 300-350ms.

On bad times like this seacom outage I fall back on my FNBconnect which overall lowers latency by about 50ms, but its obviously not uncapped.
 
I haven't played in a month or so but im on an Afrihost 384 kbps and I had no issues playing WOW, latency was between 600 and 700 (which is okish IMHO).

Unfortunately I connot comment on Afrihosts performance as of late and with their new T&C Im not sure I want to advise anyone to use them.
 
What I do is buy a cheap capped unshaped account and connect to it to play WoW. Just my machine too, so the other people in my house can still use the mweb account.

Greylor said:
WoW servers are in France.
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Servers are around Europe, the one I play on is in Germany.
 
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