International Ping

Not unless light decides to travel faster?

Haha, it probably could but would cost a fortune more for infrastructure.

Expand local so we do not need international as much? Like game servers?

Or are you referring to VOIP?
 
aka.Goliath said:
So I want to Know will our ping from SA ever get better than 200ms from here to Europe? what will have to change to get better ping?
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If you ping directly from a server in a data centre in Cape Town to a server in London over an ISP using SAT-3 then you might see around 150ms. You'll never see better than that unless you shift the continents around so that SA and Europe are right next to each other.

There will always be some extra latency from the core network out to the end user and that is normally a fairly fixed amount on each technology (ADSL, GPRS, etc)
 
ambo said:
If you ping directly from a server in a data centre in Cape Town to a server in London over an ISP using SAT-3 then you might see around 150ms. You'll never see better than that unless you shift the continents around so that SA and Europe are right next to each other.

There will always be some extra latency from the core network out to the end user and that is normally a fairly fixed amount on each technology (ADSL, GPRS, etc)
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I call some slight BS.

My friends in Cape Town get 150ms from their armchairs...
 
aka.Goliath said:
So I want to Know will our ping from SA ever get better than 200ms from here to Europe? what will have to change to get better ping?
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you need to move to cape town :P

Pinging www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.246.94] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.246.94: bytes=32 time=159ms TTL=48
Reply from 212.58.246.94: bytes=32 time=159ms TTL=48
Reply from 212.58.246.94: bytes=32 time=160ms TTL=48
Reply from 212.58.246.94: bytes=32 time=159ms TTL=48

Ping statistics for 212.58.246.94:
 
Lowest I've seen from SA to EU was on a server that sits in Web Africa's data centre in Cape Town, was between 120-130ms if I recall correctly.
 
froot said:
He has Mweb uncapped and a Telkom account.
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The lowest adsl latency I have seen is 4ms. Latency from London to www.mweb.co.za which is in their DC before it even hits the IPC links, are 151ms solid, so the bare lowest your friend could get is 155ms, in which case I call your comment BS.

Code: 
traceroute to www.mweb.co.za (196.2.63.110), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  bellini.bitfolk.com (85.119.80.17)  0.483 ms  0.406 ms  0.405 ms
 2  jump-gw-4.lon.bitfolk.com (212.13.194.4)  0.673 ms  0.670 ms  0.682 ms
 3  vl327-kpn-peer.jump.net.uk (194.153.169.233)  0.620 ms  0.624 ms  0.623 ms
 4  te1-8.mpd02.lon01.atlas.cogentco.com (130.117.14.113)  0.702 ms  0.971 ms  0.980 ms
 5  te2-1.ccr01.lon09.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.36.170)  1.354 ms  1.364 ms  1.565 ms
 6  149.6.98.18 (149.6.98.18)  8.951 ms  7.559 ms  7.460 ms
 7  176.67.177.146 (176.67.177.146)  153.237 ms  153.259 ms  157.390 ms
 8  196.22.164.1 (196.22.164.1)  154.384 ms  153.817 ms *
 9  197-80-4-137.jhb.mweb.co.za (197.80.4.137)  159.784 ms  155.293 ms  155.196 ms
10  vlan11.cpt-hscore-1.mweb.co.za (196.28.178.99)  155.532 ms  150.896 ms  150.816 ms
11  196.28.178.66 (196.28.178.66)  157.339 ms  151.197 ms  151.119 ms
12  cte-core-sw2.vwol.net (196.41.144.35)  156.401 ms  151.131 ms  151.063 ms
13  www.mweb.co.za (196.2.63.110)  151.612 ms  151.281 ms  151.326 ms

grim said:
Lowest I've seen from SA to EU was on a server that sits in Web Africa's data centre in Cape Town, was between 120-130ms if I recall correctly.
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Maybe to portugal, but most definitely not to London.
Code: 
traceroute to www.webafrica.co.za (196.220.58.66), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  bellini.bitfolk.com (85.119.80.17)  0.275 ms  0.187 ms  0.182 ms
 2  jump-gw-4.lon.bitfolk.com (212.13.194.4)  0.771 ms  0.769 ms  0.821 ms
 3  vl327-kpn-peer.jump.net.uk (194.153.169.233)  0.717 ms  0.719 ms  0.718 ms
 4  ldn-s2-rou-1021.UK.eurorings.net (134.222.231.25)  0.652 ms  0.666 ms  0.666 ms
 5  ge-5-2-6.edge3.London1.Level3.net (212.113.15.61)  0.766 ms  0.758 ms  0.754 ms
 6  * * *
 7  195.50.122.218 (195.50.122.218)  398.934 ms * *
 8  CORE_WC-RO-MSC-1_TO_GB-LD-GS-MSC-1_AINX_P2P__620M_za (41.84.12.86)  151.578 ms  151.597 ms  151.588 ms
 9  * * *
10  CORE_WC-RO-DCE-2_TO_WC-RO-MEC-1_AINX_P2P__10G_za (41.84.12.89)  150.478 ms  150.367 ms  150.307 ms
11  41-66-150-178-b2.USED.africainx.net (41.66.150.178)  151.027 ms  152.566 ms  152.842 ms
12  41.185.1.50 (41.185.1.50)  153.204 ms  151.588 ms  151.293 ms
13  wnls-hr2-gi-9-13.wa.co.za (41.185.1.42)  151.317 ms  151.613 ms  153.029 ms
14  196.220.58.66 (196.220.58.66)  151.725 ms  151.366 ms  151.293 ms
 
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