First impressions on ure mywireless

Thanks LoneGunman.

Alas, the pings are not good for gaming :~(

I have heard rumours that ADSL has jacked up their service a touch since MyWireless came out. Can any ADSL users confirm this?

One user tells me his ping to 63.240.192.246 is 51ms, to europe.battle.net is 117ms, and to asia.battle.net is 108ms. This sounds ridiculously low. Please can someone with ADSL ping those servers and let me know?
 
Freeek - using most SA connections, useast is usually lowest ping (i.e. fastest), then europe, then asia
 
I have been using ADSL for more than a year now, and like Vie, never reached my 3 gig cap. So the limit is not an issue to me. Being online 24/7 is absolutely marvelous, and the phone bill is set in stone, always just below R1k.

I can confirm that the ADSL service seems faster. I play a lot of "Call of Duty" (new MOHAA), and my ping to the saix server ranges between 9 and 29. Thus very low. It is as good as LAN. In other games that I play like "Unreal Tournament 2003" on mweb, the ping are bewteen 20 and 35. In "RTCW-ET" I get about 25. A ping of 100 to any gaming server is a tad slow for me.

I seldom download below 40k/s, even from international servers. The last week in January I downloaded the "farcry demo" from www.fileshack.com, the 600 megs was on my hard drive in less than 5 hours.

So although I hate a monopoly, telkom's ADSL are delivering in my view.
 
TheProven - can you ping those servers for me?

63.240.192.246 (a router near the useast battle.net)
europe.battle.net
asia.battle.net
 
Hiya,

1) Yes ADSL has seemed faster the last few weeks.

2) ADSL Pings as requested:

Target (min / average / max)

63.240.192.246 (406 / 435 / 507)
europe.battle.net (453 / 495 / 546)
asia.battle.net (625 / 690 / 747)

These taken at 11:35 in the AM, so they probably better after 9 in the PM but worse around 7 in the PM.

If someone is getting 100ms via adsl to the US then I'm Bill Gates!!!
 
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Maybe the ADSL guys could do it too for comparison's sake?

I wanna play World of Warcraft, so this will help my decision greatly. Thanks guys.
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Ok, I play Dark Age of Camelot alot so I can comment on World of Warcraft. Basically Dark Age is unplayable via ADSL except in really off peak times or at month end when the leach monkies are capped. Funny thing is that Dark Age is perfectly and beautifully playabe via ISDN during peak etc. This has more to do with port prioritisation than anything else. Basically ADSL sucks for anything that doesn't like packet loss. Camelot hates packet loss. Just becomes a constant Link Dead fest.

Now as MyWireless isn't doing packet prioritisation it should work the same as ISDN. Especially if they using the IS backbone as has been suggested in these forums. I am fairly optimistic about this but the proof of the pudding .....

Anyhow, I have ordered MyWireless. In fact I ordered it filled in the app etc on the 20th of Jan. My app was approved, credit passed etc last thursday. I currently have the superpremium option which means that not only is it wireless, it is modemless as well. :P

I will let you know how camelot works assuming Sentech ever gets around to sending me a modem.
 
I'm approved and everything too, still no modem, nor no call to tell me I am approved or that the modem will be delivered.......

hmpf, I had to phone THEM to make sure everything is kewl... eish
 
hehe, yea i know

its a fun nickname....

quote : "leave noone alone..."

hehehe, see [:o)]
 
Hey

you know the topic is , First impressions on ure mywireless, well gee.. i would know but sentech havnt delivered after 2 weeks, they phoned me and specifically said, 'you will get it on monday'. Guess what .. they didnt come on monday [:(!] this is getting really annoying, *sigh* gonna phone again and see what happens [xx(]

Dr4k out
 
At the distinct risk of repeating myself......

Lol, yeah me too. Applied on the 20th and eagerly awaited my modem 3 days later. I reckon they got a massive backlog. Just like when the first cellphons came out and they used up their 6 months supply of handsets in two weeks.

I know this is very frustrating, but lets put it into perspective shall we.

If you get it today and it sucks it won't matter if they gave it to you 5 minutes after you applied. It will still suck and you will still hate them with an undying passion.

If they give it to you today and it rocks, you won't give a damn that it took two weeks to get, because you have it now and it rocks!!

So just chill out, set your watch back to africa time and relax. Nothing you can do about it and working yourself up just upsets you.

After all, you could be getting up in the dark, going to work in the cold, wondering what that pale glowie thing that rarely appears in the sky is and comming home in the dark. But you would have cheap broadband.


I'm not a Sentech fanboy, just realist. When I hurt my head banging it against a brick wall I stop banging it. Both me and the wall feel better for it.

And maybe I'm willing to give them a break as they launch. I want them tossucceed after all.
 
Lol, without porn there probably wouldn't be an internet.

Porn accounts for like half of Internet traffic. But of course no one downloads porn (except of corse noone). It's always someone else.

I used to audit firewall logs and stuff, cand it's incredible what people do during working hours......
 
Well, seeing as everyones so set against porn, I WONT set up a special 'for research purposes only' Pron fserve on a local IRC chan, filled with moist oodles of uplifting material for folks to test their download speeds with :)

Hmm, is it pushing the boundaries of good taste and ethics to maybe start a separate MyWireless and MyADSL 'file-sharing' related topic?

(goes back to seeing if his ping times to local Q3 Mweb servers can drop below 120)

*at any point, at any time, our snipers can drop you. Have a nice day*
 
Lol hate when I register on a forum and enigma is already taken but anyway....


Using Imaginet and dailing the "digital' pop number in grahamstown I get 170 - 210 ms ping on 64k isdn playing overseas on the official electronic arts bf1942 64 player servers (England) and battlenet (Europe Realm) diablo 2 servers, totally playable but still wondering why siax used to have this ping for a couple of months then went up to 700+

F** Knows why this pop number of them has this low ping and every SINGLE pop number on the 'normal' saix network has a 700+ ping overseas now...*conspiracy theory goes here*

But then again high ping using Sentech = doesnt help me at all when you consider how many games are not available to play locally, my days of downloading pirate software are long gone so uber bandwidth isn't important...just the ping


24/7 with bandwidth that changes with the amount of ppl online + ****ty customer service and a very scary contract = not getting my support sorry [B)]
 
Lol hate when I register on a forum and enigma is already taken but anyway....


Using Imaginet and dailing the "digital' pop number in grahamstown I get 170 - 210 ms ping on 64k isdn playing overseas on the official electronic arts bf1942 64 player servers (England) and battlenet (Europe Realm) diablo 2 servers, totally playable but still wondering why siax used to have this ping for a couple of months then went up to 700+

F** Knows why this pop number of them has this low ping and every SINGLE pop number on the 'normal' saix network has a 700+ ping overseas now...*conspiracy theory goes here*

But then again high ping using Sentech = doesnt help me at all when you consider how many games are not available to play locally, my days of downloading pirate software are long gone so uber bandwidth isn't important...just the ping


24/7 with bandwidth that changes with the amount of ppl online + ****ty customer service and a very scary contract = not getting my support sorry [B)]
 
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