Gaming & ADSL

Yip yip this is starting to pi$$ me off....

2 more adsl users in JHB also both laggin baaaad on WoW.
Pings of 3000 if u lucky with 5 min spikes every 1 min of over 15000.

Ever since past Saturday or so, hasnt come right, use to come right from midnight till 6am, now its completely *stuffed* 24hrs a day...

Also...P2P specially International DC++ throttled SEVERELY

Http works fine....

SO all i have to say is... #$#%*($(%^*#%^% U HELKOM, I HOPE U all
Get retrenched when new international telecoms are actually *allowed* to come into the country, dont worry, when i see one of u standing on the corner with a cardboard sign, ill definately send a couple of coins your way, i mean after all, ill be saving THOUSANDS of rands every year ;)


-PI$$ED OFF, JHB
 
Web africa kindly "lent" me an unshaped account to test for an hour.

WoW shaped >5000ms
WoW unshaped 600-700ms (US Servers)
Skype shaped 25% recieved packet loss. Round trip 800ms
Skype unshaped 0% packet loss. Round trip 270ms.

Did not test torrents but i dont think i need too. We all know what the answer would be.

I think that Icasa needs to know that telkoms reaction to being told to end port shaping is to apply it so strictly that a 56k modem outperform adsl on "broadband" protocols. This is a joke.
 
I am on an unshapped account, and it's spiking allot more often then it used to. Previously it would apike evey 10 minutes or so, now it's spiking closer on every 5 minutes :(
 
Hey everyone Clipse's service is really kewl. I really thought I would have to cancel my account . But I went for a long shot, was playing with my WOW last night was getting 370 - 700 lat. Everyone else I know was gett well into the 3000 + . Just want to thank Clipse again.
 
I'm also having issues - I called up telkom and they said everything is fine on their side.
 
looks like the problem is still running and i was getting adsl installed at my home to actually play guild wars online. looks like that thought is getting flushed down the drain. Telkom better get this fixed otherwise i dont see the major point of getting adsl in the first place
 
They should be taking us seiously on the worldwide scale online gaming takes up about 35% of the internet traffic, thats a hell of alot.
 
Soulburner said:
looks like the problem is still running and i was getting adsl installed at my home to actually play guild wars online. looks like that thought is getting flushed down the drain. Telkom better get this fixed otherwise i dont see the major point of getting adsl in the first place
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I would not atm. i cant believe i ditched my isdn for this crap.
 
ok, is all local gaming still fine? i played a long session of BF2 last night (almost an hour!!!) and it seemed ok. so our problems might be solved if we could get local mirrors for the most popular games (wow, guild wars, eve, Barney and Friends Activity Centre), right?
 
u cant have mirrors for mmorpg, the servers need to be owned by the companys, and its not feasable to have servers in a backwater country such as south africa with only 100,000 broadband users
 
so you telling me that Sizwe is playing his Barney and Friends (i heard his making progress) over unshaped accounts? Well, he has the money for it, but why does Telkom sometimes advertise (when it suites them) that ADSL is great for gaming?

OK, how much would it cost the company to host an official Guild Wars server? BAH, the whole idea is to link up to the rest of the world! dont want to be isolated like this. Oh, and i promise i will get at LEAST 5 more Guild Wars players if they have a server here :) hows that for sweetening the deal?
 
sburrell said:
u cant have mirrors for mmorpg, the servers need to be owned by the companys, and its not feasable to have servers in a backwater country such as south africa with only 100,000 broadband users
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LOL .....backwater country, good one...

@Daveogg, well youre saying not atm, but its already ordered its just they must still install it at my house. So i guess i'll use it to become some sort of massive leecher or something until they fix their crap.
 
Wont be long until the new regs come in to place, the board said something like 2-4 weeks till they draw up the new regs
 
Soulburner said:
LOL .....backwater country, good one...

@Daveogg, well youre saying not atm, but its already ordered its just they must still install it at my house. So i guess i'll use it to become some sort of massive leecher or something until they fix their crap.
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Dont do that.. that will only making the gaming worse for everyone else sitting in your area.

ADSL is a viable payment option for playing online games. It all depends on how much you play. I had some vacation time last month and put in about 192+ playing hours into WoW... That on ISDN would of cost me a hell of a lot more than what I pay for my ADSL line. Even with the extra Nukecap account I use to play WoW factored in, and it still works out cheaper than unshaped ADSL, which is the best option but not affordable.

It all depends on how much you want to play.

BUT I still think its unfair that Telkom is screwing us over like this!
 
hey if blizzard is not willing to host local server then someone else will (has)
;)

just find out who has made a local server and then some slight alter to your config file and boom you are up and running on local with local pings and latency. ps local is unshaped and uncapped

hjmmmmm..
 
Yes, quite...

Comparing the local "emulated" WoW server to the Official US/EU servers is comparing a dinky-toy ferrari to the real thing...

The only viable solution within the near future for International gaming, etc. WoW, GW, Eve, Ragnarok, etc. is to install a major router here in SA which we all connect to, and Router connects to various games... i mean this prolly will be uber expensive, but now what if we could appeal to the game companies to all chip in together....just a thought...I know we have peeps here in contact with Blizz, wot about the other games ?
 
That's a good suggestion, one that would by pass anything to do with SAIX and telkom and tap straight into the SAT3 cable :D
 
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