Mweb 4mbps uncapped shaped good for wow?

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is 4mbps shaped mweb any good for wow ppl been telling me to get that instead of 4gb unshaped 384 kb/s telkom.. jst wanna knw if its a good idea to do that?
 
4Mbit ADSL uncapped shaped connection is more than sufficient. I have two ADSL connections, one an unshaped SAIX account and I have the same latency on that as on MWEB, between 200-400ms
 
384k for 10 MANS is enough. and thats cutting it very! fine. it also depends from where you play. but to do anything intensive on a 384k is jus impossible. try do 25 man dungeons. thats 2.5 times as much data being sent an recieved.
 
Ok , let me refine my answer. you can do Baradins hold and maybe a few 25 man bosses. but serious raiding will be pointless. Vent + Increase in data for specific fights.

Edit : and im talking from experience trying to raid from a friends place on 384. i cudnt even stay connected during Twilight Extinction. and cutters also sometimes made me DC. so yes. it is playable in BH , TB and some raid encounters.
 
Magnarmalok said:
I played 25mans just fine on my Mweb uncapped 384...
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this was before cata hit I imagine. since cata was launched they have changed some things in regards to the way data is sent. regarding 10mans, there is no fine line as you put it naked. it works just fine. load screens are a bit slow, but otherwise, i have zero problems. some dc's admittedly when Im tabbed out when browsing, but thats it. and that seems to be something else, because it doesnt happen all the time oddly enough.

wish I did have a faster line though, cos I miss 25man raids :(
 
I just got my web fixed today to mweb 4mbps got next 25 man tommorow.. you guys all say u were fine with 384 but i was litteraly having a dcfest as healer on chimairon, theralion and valiona... 25 man.. 10 mans are fine though no dc there... ive got my next 25 man on wensday ill see how it is with this new connection.. and ill post what kind of latency im getting.
 
Getting dc's etc has allot less to do with the ISP than your line itself. Thou 384 is not for 25 man really as data can spike to 70k kb+/sec for brief periods (seconds) but its generally less than 10kb/s. Its in those seconds that you see the problems on slower lines also.

I raid on Web Africa standard acct with a proxy and have 200-220ms stable in 25 mans.
I can also raid on my IS based uncapped account with a 300-380ms latency.

BUT the difference is the WA acct is very very stable. It stays @ that latency where other ISP (I've used many different ones) might give you a good overall latency, it spikes allot more. Something you will clearly realize if you play a caster class.

The biggest issue ppl have with lag and DC's has to do with their line quality itself. It has proven itself to me over and over. I have moved 4 times in the last couple of years and every time the line quality obviously changes and so does my wow problems with that. For me SNR or Noise Margin has gone hand in hand with WOW lag and DC's.

My new house have a great quality line, compaired to my previous house which had an ok line, but it was prone to getting a Noise Margin that jumps around. Having a stable NM, even if its on the low side is ok (ideally for wow u want 12+, but 10+ will do if its stable), but when it starts moving all the time, specially below 10 you get problems.
When my Noise Margin goes low and there allot happening in game I used to get problems. I can even pickup the phone and hear the noise on the line. Then you know its really bad.

My current line quality looks something like below. Thats great and I have not had 1 single problem for 3 months and I raid decently serious 25 man (8/13HC)

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 4096 kbps 512 kbps
Line Attenuation 18.0 db 9.0 db
Noise Margin 28.6 db 14.0 db

Anyway, thats my opinion and personal experience on things.
 
at least he has tinfoil available, I gotta use old shoelaces and used pieces of bubblegum scraped off the pavement :p
 
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