Gaming on IS based accounts

Local warcraft is hosted on SAIX and local WOW is hosted on SAIX.

The latency will be crappy during office hours peering to the saix network, thanks to our buddies at saix *sarcasm*

Altho, ping should be 150-200ms, still usable tho, what ping do you get?
 
Couple people with the IS uncapped have told me it is quite slow.
They are also shaped to hell and back.
The shaping coupled with office hours, prolly makes it pretty crappy.

Remember that the peering link between IS and Saix is also poked most of the time.

<edit> Says unshapped? on the website. I somehow doubt it
 
they tell you that you cant use gaming during the day

because they give bandwidth to the ppl who want email etc

so dont with IS if you wanna game
 
freeek said:
its around 150-200 ms at night which is fine ... in the day i get lots of flucuation. 450-2000 ms
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Freek ok thats not right at all. We have IS and SAIX peering issues during office hours on our uncapped we sell, 150-200ms then after 5pm its back to 50ms.

I suspect other problems, not directly related to IS but perhaps to the IS bandwidth uncapped.co.za is utilising?
 
freek - I have no idea what multiplexing uncapped.co.za is using on their custom uncapped IS packages, you should ask them. They may have a high contention ratio on their various packages.

I can only inform you that our custom IS solutions do not suffer from these kind of behaviours that you seem to get.

Smoothwall wont affect your ping, that kind of ping is either:

A.) your line (which Im sure you have tested with other accounts allready)
B.) The specific uncapped solution you got (multiplexing/contention playing a role)
 
ok guess i was dreaming my bro inlaw installed a proxy - squid ... and that was the cause .... I don't really know but it made a huge difference
 
Squid is not related to gaming traffic or latency? ;0

How could that make a difference, unless your downloading while playing it could perhaps, if he is relaying your browsing/downloading traffic via squid using pools.

Other than that, I dont see how it could help with reducing latency :)
 
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