Chevron
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Vox Fat Pipe definitely has some very low contention ratios. The OP needs to realize that you get what you pay for. Even Telkom has business accounts if you need to download during the day.
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Vox Fat Pipe definitely has some very low contention ratios. The OP needs to realize that you get what you pay for. Even Telkom has business accounts if you need to download during the day.
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Hi all
This is what I want to do gaming, windows etc. updates and p2p. Very little YouTube.
Gaming low latencies requirement.Running a trial account from currently from WebAfrica business pro capped. Still get latency spikes.
Will not being used for P2P downloading.
Does Vox have trial accounts?
Fiber will not happen here soon not in my live time. Looking at Telkom infrastructure. Our exchange can handle on 4mbps max currently.
This is what I want to do gaming, windows etc. updates and p2p. Very little YouTube.
Gaming low latencies requirement.Running a trial account from currently from WebAfrica business pro capped. Still get latency spikes.
Will not being used for P2P downloading.
Does Vox have trial accounts?
Fiber will not happen here soon not in my live time. Looking at Telkom infrastructure. Our exchange can handle on 4mbps max currently.
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Chevron
Serial breaker of phones
Web Africa only offers trial accounts for the home capped option.
Are you sure you're testing business pro?
furpile
Expert Member
If you are getting latency spikes with almost every single ISP in SA you might have to accept that there could be an exchange issue (close to congested, so every now and then it gets overloaded briefly) or that the latency you want is not achievable in SA.
Vox do not have trial accounts, only the free Gig4Gig (but you pay a R50 setup fee). Try asking them if you can test a Fatpipe account for a few hours, see how that goes.
@Chevron
That is what the lady said. My mail is at home.
I received two e-mails from here.
Business capped one was canceled and the other e-mail stated business pro capped.
This is the one she said I need. I can quarry this?
Home capped I have currently.
That is what the lady said. My mail is at home.
I received two e-mails from here.
Business capped one was canceled and the other e-mail stated business pro capped.
This is the one she said I need. I can quarry this?
Home capped I have currently.
I have used to Test utilites.
WinMTR and pathping.
Pathping shows very little packet loses.
If I run WinMTR lots of packet loses. I run the latest revision.
Don't know what to make of this?
I know this is of track.
WinMTR and pathping.
Pathping shows very little packet loses.
If I run WinMTR lots of packet loses. I run the latest revision.
Don't know what to make of this?
I know this is of track.
furpile
Expert Member
Install the free version of Pingplotter. Keep it running for an hour or so and enter the IP address of your game server. Then every 5 or 10 seconds it does a traceroute to that server and shows you the history. Then you can see where the latency spikes happen.
Johnatan56
Honorary Master
A 10:1 contention ratio on fibre for 100mbit lines is nice, since YouTube on HD uses less than 10mbit. Contention issues are becoming more of a problem as global internet traffic increases due to better quality while we are still stuck on the old, slow speeds/infrastructure.
Nerfherder
Honorary Master
https://www.cybersmart.co.za/package_compare.cgi
Cybersmart has that info on the above page. They range from 15:1 to 5:1
Contention is important but your line can still be rubbish if everyone is contending for the full line speed.
I'm on the unshaped capped account with 5:1 contention and it can get really bad end of month when everyone is trying to kill their cap.