Gaming on fibre

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Inceptionul

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Hi guys

I ordered my 100 mbps fibre line a few days ago (webafrica/telkom) but with probably a few days/weeks left to wait before actually getting it is killing me.

I want to know what gaming is like on fibre. If you have a 100 or 40 mbps line can you play on international servers without too much lag? What ping do you get approximately? How is it playing on local servers?

I play mostly cod and battlefield and some csgo (multiplayer games that is) and only being able to play on South African servers is a bit annoying.

Once my line is up and running I will post an answer to this as well as a general overview of the entire process of getting fibre.

Thanks in advance
 
Sorry bru - bad news for you. The latency will not drop significantly. SA is on the arse on of the world & even light takes a while to get to London. Plus the intrastructure adds some additional delays. You'll likely see about 10% improvement in latency so if you've found it unplayable till now that will definitely not change.

It'll possibly be more stable though depending on the quality of the data provided by WebAfrica.
 
HavocXphere said:
Sorry bru - bad news for you. The latency will not drop significantly. SA is on the arse on of the world & even light takes a while to get to London. Plus the intrastructure adds some additional delays. You'll likely see about 10% improvement in latency so if you've found it unplayable till now that will definitely not change.

It'll possibly be more stable though depending on the quality of the data provided by WebAfrica.
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Thanks. Oh well, not too much of issue really.
 
We have both an ADSL and FTTH setup at home here. With one person on fibre and the other on ADSL, the ADSL got 50ms to a CS server whilst the FTTH got 5ms!

Obviously there is some issue with the ADSL account or the exchange, but the long and short of it is that FTTH is more efficient in general. Ping times might dip by like 10ms at best internationally.
 
I can connect to european servers with a ping of around 120ms, but thats still unplayable
 
HavocXphere said:
Sorry bru - bad news for you. The latency will not drop significantly. SA is on the arse on of the world & even light takes a while to get to London. Plus the intrastructure adds some additional delays. You'll likely see about 10% improvement in latency so if you've found it unplayable till now that will definitely not change.

It'll possibly be more stable though depending on the quality of the data provided by WebAfrica.
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Its because we are insignificant to the world and there is drive for interest here to host gaming servers even just more stuff in general. We just lack interest , so many people do not care.

Anyways im happy with a ping of 200-300 its fine by me.
I mean look at car auto stores that sell spares and stuff they dont even have what they should have.
There is no drive for proper competition.

Maybe if we had more population it might make a difference in the motivation or competitiveness im not sure.
 
ichocolate said:
Its because we are insignificant to the world and there is drive for interest here to host gaming servers even just more stuff in general. We just lack interest , so many people do not care.
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host your own gaming server on your fibre or do you also not care
 
saturnz said:
host your own gaming server on your fibre or do you also not care
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That is a bad idea. Home users should not host their own gaming servers from home. Rather get a dedicated server.
 
gregmcc said:
Would need a rather beefy server at home, plus I would think a static IP is a minimum requirement.
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Well wouldnt this depend on how many people are using his server. He could have a small home server running for just a few friends.
He has the speed and the low local latency.
 
paulosouthafrica said:
Well wouldnt this depend on how many people are using his server. He could have a small home server running for just a few friends.
He has the speed and the low local latency.
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And then the link goes down. Where do they play then?
 
1234567 said:
And then the link goes down. Where do they play then?
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Seems like thats a problem that could happen to an online server, in the sense that they could be doing maintenance or have an issue that takes it offline.

The point is really that its much more viable to host your own server on a fiber line vs an ADSL line, the limitations of speed and latency are much more on par with a datacenter.
 
1234567 said:
That is a bad idea. Home users should not host their own gaming servers from home. Rather get a dedicated server.
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Quakelive running on steam now only runs on servers hosted by the players.
 
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paulosouthafrica said:
Seems like thats a problem that could happen to an online server, in the sense that they could be doing maintenance or have an issue that takes it offline.

The point is really that its much more viable to host your own server on a fiber line vs an ADSL line, the limitations of speed and latency are much more on par with a datacenter.
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Yes, this is true. Datacentres are based on fibre - what difference does it make to run it over a home connection? So far my experience with FTTH has been on par with a business account and I don't know of any pitfalls when doing this. I would feel comfortable hosting a dedicated server here.
 
My pings for swtor is 30ms lower on fibre then it ever was on adsl/vdsl.
 
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