Hi guys and gals,
I'm new here, and this will probably be my only post. Some of you will know me from the SA gaming community, some of you will not. Doesn't really matter. I did see old Belgarion around here... Lo Bela
Ceri here ltns m8
OK... Here's my story... Longish post...
I spend about R600 per month on my isdn account. I have the R7 option and stuff like that. This basically means that I dial every night from 7pm at 64k till 7am the next morning. On weekends I dial 128k from Friday eve 7pm till monday morn 7am. The depressing thing is that the calls only make up around R300 of the account. The rest are fixed charges for all sorts of crap.
So when the 192 adsl came along I calculated it to be around R480-R520 per month fixed cost, and 24/7 access isp included. I don't use my internet connection for anything "uselful" or "professional". It's purely there for 100% online gaming. In the old days it was CS and UO. But today it's WoW and Eve. (CS = Counter Strike = online 1st person shooter, UO = Ultima Online = Online role playing game, WoW = World of Warcraft = Online role playing game, Eve = Eve = Online role playing game)
All seemed like a great idea and I applied for my isdn line to be converted to a adsl. But since about the 25th July things went really wrong. I play Wow on the UK servers based in London. We even have a small South African guild on the server. Since around the 25th of July my adsl buddies in the guild have been complaining of huge pings. They're pinging anywhere from 4000-10000. And me on my lowly 64isdn with 2 pcs playing Wow am getting 400ms. On weekends with 128k I go as low as 150ms ping.
Originally it was assumed to be a month end rush on the adsl system. People getting capped and downloading all sortsa crap through local dcc+. Or people still having cap left and downloading internationally so they can get their money's worth. So this should've cleared up now!
And still every night my adsl buddies have to try to play with 4000+ pings.
Needless to say, I phoned Telkom and cancelled my request to have my line converted to adsl. And again, needless to say, it's like talking to a brick wall. I sit in "hold the phone" qeues and get transfered all over the place. Eventually I just threw the phone down. I think it's less hassle to just shoot the technician that tries to install adsl at my house.
Does anyone have any info on why the adsl pings are so horrible?
Are they gonna get better "some day, someday, sunday"?
Are you all like me gonna drop Telkom and go to the competition as soon as we can?
Will we be lucky enough to bankrupt Telkom then?
What's this I hear that Telkom is running ADSl on the ATM network, which was actually a failed business venture of Telkom that adsl users now have to pay for?
I'm new here, and this will probably be my only post. Some of you will know me from the SA gaming community, some of you will not. Doesn't really matter. I did see old Belgarion around here... Lo Bela
Ceri here ltns m8 OK... Here's my story... Longish post...
I spend about R600 per month on my isdn account. I have the R7 option and stuff like that. This basically means that I dial every night from 7pm at 64k till 7am the next morning. On weekends I dial 128k from Friday eve 7pm till monday morn 7am. The depressing thing is that the calls only make up around R300 of the account. The rest are fixed charges for all sorts of crap.
So when the 192 adsl came along I calculated it to be around R480-R520 per month fixed cost, and 24/7 access isp included. I don't use my internet connection for anything "uselful" or "professional". It's purely there for 100% online gaming. In the old days it was CS and UO. But today it's WoW and Eve. (CS = Counter Strike = online 1st person shooter, UO = Ultima Online = Online role playing game, WoW = World of Warcraft = Online role playing game, Eve = Eve = Online role playing game)
All seemed like a great idea and I applied for my isdn line to be converted to a adsl. But since about the 25th July things went really wrong. I play Wow on the UK servers based in London. We even have a small South African guild on the server. Since around the 25th of July my adsl buddies in the guild have been complaining of huge pings. They're pinging anywhere from 4000-10000. And me on my lowly 64isdn with 2 pcs playing Wow am getting 400ms. On weekends with 128k I go as low as 150ms ping.
Originally it was assumed to be a month end rush on the adsl system. People getting capped and downloading all sortsa crap through local dcc+. Or people still having cap left and downloading internationally so they can get their money's worth. So this should've cleared up now!
And still every night my adsl buddies have to try to play with 4000+ pings.
Needless to say, I phoned Telkom and cancelled my request to have my line converted to adsl. And again, needless to say, it's like talking to a brick wall. I sit in "hold the phone" qeues and get transfered all over the place. Eventually I just threw the phone down. I think it's less hassle to just shoot the technician that tries to install adsl at my house.
Does anyone have any info on why the adsl pings are so horrible?
Are they gonna get better "some day, someday, sunday"?
Are you all like me gonna drop Telkom and go to the competition as soon as we can?
Will we be lucky enough to bankrupt Telkom then?
What's this I hear that Telkom is running ADSl on the ATM network, which was actually a failed business venture of Telkom that adsl users now have to pay for?