Gaming & ADSL

yep further showing us how confused telkom is....its terrible its sad its disgusting,but simply stating these things is not enuf anymore.....i further reiterate my point for physical action...Kalvaer I get the same times as you and I dont use Nukecap? so you are ending up paying more for the same?

furthermore shaping has got to stop fullstop....yyou cant advertise adsl and give the customer half adsl
that just wrong
 
My WoW latency also went from 900 avg to 16000 avg on 1st of August. Luckily my subscription just ran out.

Btw, my torrents also went for a ball of sh*t since then.
 
Trance Routes

Yay...i got through to telkomsa. I should forward the trace routes...can anyone tell me what this is?
 
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erm, ICASA report, crappy ADSL... see the connection?
 
eye_suc said:
erm, ICASA report, crappy ADSL... see the connection?
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Funnily enough.. yes http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=535

and Echo.. I also used to get those times without nukecap. at least the 450 ms region.. but month end i was screwed as everyone here hsa stated, At least with NC now its a constant 450 and almost no spikes. I can run around IF at 2:00am without any lag at all.. other than my video card FR dropping.. but not from my ADSL
 
i used to get 3ms when i was at university in sheffield, england while playing counterstike and 30ms on U.S servers, now thats what S.A should be like
 
I can justfully say that nukecap must be working much better than ADSL for 2 reasons:

1.) I know this for a fact :)
2.) Just reached 40 new users, by word of mouth/referals, in the last 3 days.

They cant all be insane and feel like wasting money on a service that dont work? :P
 
Thanks. Call me uninformed but how do I acctually get a trace route from where I'm playing?
 
To get a traceroute on windows, open a dos command window and type:
tracert <server_name>

For example:
C:\>tracert www.bbc.co.uk

Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.224.123]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.100
2 38 ms 33 ms 33 ms xxx.stormnet.co.za [196.22.x.x]
3 33 ms 33 ms 33 ms ct3640.ct.stormnet.co.za [196.22.220.1]
4 128 ms 127 ms 131 ms cbs-access1-wan.wc.saix.net [196.25.3.197]
5 475 ms 455 ms * lon-ip-dir-telecity-pos-6-0.telkom-ipnet.co.za [
196.43.9.50]
6 * 421 ms 419 ms pos2-1.cr02.ldn01.pccwbtn.net [63.218.52.17]
7 489 ms 485 ms 582 ms ge2-4.br02.ldn01.pccwbtn.net [63.218.12.54]
8 602 ms 607 ms 551 ms bbc-gw0-linx.prt0.thdoe.bbc.co.uk [195.66.224.10
3]
9 415 ms 411 ms 437 ms 212.58.238.129
10 443 ms 424 ms 424 ms www23.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.123]

Trace complete.

C:\>

The above ping is on diginet. Also, the ping times seems a fair bit higher that when I last did this. I heard somewhere that diginet gets a higher priority than unshaped ADSL, which in turn gets a higher priority than shaped ADSL. So, if diginet is taking strain, then it might be a bad sign for the users lower on the food chain.

Another thing to take into account is that with ADSL shaping, what one gets as ping times and what one gets while gaming might be very different, since they might be shaped differently.
 
Nuke Cap, what are the payment options on this service, and is it safe to use, UUNet seems to be having alot of problems l8tly
 
icmp ping does not get shaped, thats the problem.. on a shaped connection, your icmp ping requests will be ALOT lower than ur actual ping once data packets gets shaped ie. ingame
 
sburrell - check out the website for different packages, yes its safe to use.. UUNET uncapped adsl offering is not at all on par with their Hosting bandwidth.. Our hosting have had no issues at all.
 
gkm said:
The above ping is on diginet. Also, the ping times seems a fair bit higher that when I last did this.
Click to expand...

I just did the same ping on my unshaped ADSL account and it was about half that of the diginet line. I switched a couple of times between the two, to check if I am seeing right. WTF? Why am I paying crazy money for diginet?
 
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oh this is just rediculouse, i cant even acces my natwest online banking in the UK cos its so slow..... telkom...... die....
 
Just on a note, regarding latency.. this is our latency to google.com using mtr, very handy tool.. Add 60ms from user to our vpn, and that would be ur lowest ping to google.com in this comparison: (Please note, the final hop is the actual google ip ;-) )

poseidon.cheetah-is.co.za (0.0.0.0)(tos=0x0 psize=64 bitpattern=0x00) Wed Aug 3 14:34:19 2005
Keys: Help Display mode Restart statistics Order of fields quit
Packets Pings
Host Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. 196.30.191.193 0.0% 10 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.7 0.1
2. 196.7.18.209 0.0% 10 0.6 0.6 0.4 1.5 0.3
3. vlan513.hr1.cpt1.alter.net 0.0% 9 0.3 0.5 0.3 1.2 0.3
4. fe11-0-0.gw1.cpt1.alter.net 0.0% 9 0.9 1.0 0.6 2.2 0.5
5. atm8-0-0sub100.ir2.mia16.alter.net 0.0% 9 198.8 201.2 197.8 209.0 4.0
6. s1-0-0.ir1.nyc39.alter.net 0.0% 9 251.5 254.4 251.1 258.0 2.6
7. atm5-1-0sub666.cr1.nyc39.alter.net 0.0% 9 230.0 229.9 227.1 236.1 2.6
8. if-4-2.bb7.NYY-NewYork.teleglobe.net 0.0% 9 226.4 228.5 226.2 232.4 2.1
9. if-3-2.core2.NQT-NewYork.Teleglobe.net 0.0% 9 231.9 230.9 228.2 239.6 3.6
10. if-14-0.core3.NQT-NewYork.Teleglobe.net 0.0% 9 237.9 239.4 233.7 268.3 10.9
11. if-1-0.core2.AEQ-Ashburn.teleglobe.net 0.0% 9 308.7 242.9 233.2 308.7 24.7
12. if-6-0.core1.AEQ-Ashburn.Teleglobe.net 0.0% 9 235.9 236.1 233.6 240.9 2.8
13. ix-2-0.core1.AEQ-Ashburn.teleglobe.net 0.0% 9 242.1 246.6 234.4 298.3 20.6
14. 216.239.47.131 0.0% 9 233.9 241.4 233.9 267.1 10.7
15. 216.239.47.58 0.0% 9 236.8 239.1 236.8 244.6 2.3
216.239.47.54
216.239.47.54
216.239.47.54
216.239.47.54
216.239.47.54
216.239.47.54
216.239.47.54
16. 216.239.39.99 0.0% 9 234.8 238.2 234.6 246.5 4.0
 
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