Gaming on Uncapped

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Methias

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I'm considering moving over to uncapped next month. I'm not overly concerned about any download limits placed on accounts as I don't expect to be shifting huge amounts of bandwidth (at most 30gigs on a 384k line).

However what does concern me is HTTP browsing speeds & email during the day as well as local and international latencies during the evening and the weekend.

My concern comes from my experiences this weekend on Cybersmart (I'm on a 1gig line, no specials attached to it) and I was getting latencies locally of 106ms, to London of 1597ms and New York of 900ms. After complaining to Cybersmart I was moved onto a different circuit and told the horrible latencies were due to the people on the weekend package downloading. After that I got pings of 106ms locally, 300ms to New York and 697ms to London. At least with this I was able to play some HoN games in the states.

What kind of performances are seen on the MWEB and IS lines? Do both have acceptable latencies and HTTP browsing speeds during the day?

Basically I'm looking for some feedback to compare the different uncapped vendors (I'm not counting Afrihost's version) and if it has tolerable performance.
 
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Simple. Gaming on an uncapped account will always cause problems. There is not guarantee of speed. I would suggest setting up your ADSL modem in half bridge mode. Have an MWEB or IS account for downloads and then get a 1GB unshaped SAIX account fro gaming. :)
 
Ye, the option of switching is there, I would like to preferably not if there is an option. The OpenWeb gold account looks interesting, I don't care much if the P2P options are shaped (to a degree, I at least would like 15-20k downloads during the day). Most of the usage during the day would be HTTP traffic, some small FTP for updating a website, and some email. During the evenings p2p will be restarted and gaming done when I have the time.

I'm aware that an uncapped account may not be suitable at all but i was just interested too see how bad they are for gaming purposes. I would be happy with 250-350ms pings to States and UK. HoN seems to be fairly tolerant of pings up to 350-400ms.
 
My MWEB uncapped account gives me no problems with gaming. It was kinda bad in the beginning when it was released but it's been much better of late. I get 41ms to local servers and 250-300 to UK and US (CoH and HoN). I game every night and I haven't had a DC yet. Also, I generally DL while gaming as well, local it's OK but international it does affect the conn and can cause delay or spikes.
 
yup my MWEB is fine for gaming and gives me about the same results as my 1GB pre-paid account, 20-60 ms for local HoN and 200-250 int HoN. One thing that I have noticed is that sometimes on my Mweb account it is extremely difficult to log into steam but once I'm in dowloads and latency are fine.
 
Both my wife and I played MW2 on a 4mb Afrihost uncapped account, while downloading a couple of series. had no problems....
 
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