MWEB 384kbps Uncapped and non-browsing activities (gaming etc)

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MWEB 384kbps Uncapped and Gaming

I have searched and found some vague posts about the MWEB 384 Uncapped service and gaming, but I need more specific answers.

MwebOps, please feel free to chirp in on this if you have anything as well.

  1. How does it handle PSN/PS3 multiplayers games? (Business hours and After hours)
  2. How does it handle WoW and similar MMO's ? (Business hours and After hours)
  3. Any comments on Ventrilo usage? (Business hours and After hours)

Seeing as my working hours are generally at night, as I work with graphics design for overseas clients, I more often play games during the day.

As such I am VERY concerned over the shaping policies during business hours for such things as PS3 games, WoW and other MMO's, and Ventrilo to go along with it.

Please stay on topic, I don't care near as much about browsing and downloading as I do having decent latencies for my games.

Of course, I know there are going to be at least 15 people with "UNSHAPED ONLY!" or "MWEB SUX LOL!", please keep it to yourself.
 
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Latency is very unstable on Mweb. Sometimes if you join a game, the ping is shown very high and then settles to a lower figure. Sometimes it spikes so much, you get very variable game performance or just kicked off. Very late at night, things can settle, but then there's no one to play with. Then of course there's the problem of downtime, which is very very frequent. If you go to Mweb and complain, they just try and sell you an unshaped product for more. They also don't have any gaming affectionados at Mweb, unlike, say at WebAfrica, where there are a large number of support staff playing.
 
wheunis said:
I have searched and found some vague posts about the MWEB 384 Uncapped service and gaming, but I need more specific answers.

MwebOps, please feel free to chirp in on this if you have anything as well.

  1. How does it handle PSN/PS3 multiplayers games? (Business hours and After hours)
  2. How does it handle WoW and similar MMO's ? (Business hours and After hours)
  3. Any comments on Ventrilo usage? (Business hours and After hours)

Seeing as my working hours are generally at night, as I work with graphics design for overseas clients, I more often play games during the day.

As such I am VERY concerned over the shaping policies during business hours for such things as PS3 games, WoW and other MMO's, and Ventrilo to go along with it.

Please stay on topic, I don't care near as much about browsing and downloading as I do having decent latencies for my games.

Of course, I know there are going to be at least 15 people with "UNSHAPED ONLY!" or "MWEB SUX LOL!", please keep it to yourself.
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Mweb shaped really isn't that good during the day. I'd much rather recommend openweb GOLD as they'll give you much better day time performance.
 
Sadly, I am on a limited budget.
The OpenWeb Gold packages push that budget too far over.
 
Tanya35, what is your beef with MWEB? You are always complaining about them? Are you even a subscriber with them? Or are you just a troll?
 
wheunis said:
I have searched and found some vague posts about the MWEB 384 Uncapped service and gaming, but I need more specific answers.

MwebOps, please feel free to chirp in on this if you have anything as well.

  1. How does it handle PSN/PS3 multiplayers games? (Business hours and After hours)
  2. How does it handle WoW and similar MMO's ? (Business hours and After hours)
  3. Any comments on Ventrilo usage? (Business hours and After hours)

Seeing as my working hours are generally at night, as I work with graphics design for overseas clients, I more often play games during the day.

As such I am VERY concerned over the shaping policies during business hours for such things as PS3 games, WoW and other MMO's, and Ventrilo to go along with it.

Please stay on topic, I don't care near as much about browsing and downloading as I do having decent latencies for my games.

Of course, I know there are going to be at least 15 people with "UNSHAPED ONLY!" or "MWEB SUX LOL!", please keep it to yourself.
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The latency is pretty random. Most of the time its playable in the day , I get 300-600ms to European servers @ 13:00 , same for PSN and Multiplayer games such as COD4 and Socom on PS3. They all work fine.

You do however get the day/week when everything lags 24/7, but they are scarce enough.
 
Auntpol said:
The latency is pretty random. Most of the time its playable in the day , I get 300-600ms to European servers @ 13:00 , same for PSN and Multiplayer games such as COD4 and Socom on PS3. They all work fine.

You do however get the day/week when everything lags 24/7, but they are scarce enough.
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Is that on a 4Mb line?
 
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