Neotel happy with its progress

I dont care if the rates stays the same. What i do care about is the fact that even with my adsl; i still get slow response from over seas. We need to upgrade the lines or whatever that runs to overseas.

Im a gamer; the south african servers gives me 30 ping; where overseas the fastest is 350 Ping. Not really worth it unless all you play is counterstrike.

If Neotel can give me that ping on international servers; then im sure they will win alot of customers. The entire gaming community will repent to Neotel.
Lets hope they manage to do this.
 
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LJDK said:
I dont care if the rates stays the same. What i do care about is the fact that even with my adsl; i still get slow response from over seas. We need to upgrade the lines or whatever that runs to overseas.

Im a gamer; the south african servers gives me 30 ping; where overseas the fastest is 350 Ping. Not really worth it unless all you play is counterstrike.

If Neotel can give me that ping on international servers; then im sure they will win alot of customers. The entire gaming community will repent to Neotel.
Lets hope they manage to do this.
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What is the minimum time it takes an electrical impulse to travel from South Africa to Europe?

You can't do anything better than the limits of physics.

If I'm not mistaken a 350 ping is close to to minimum dictated by the laws of physics.
 
...Telkom is however not resting on its laurels...
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Laurels (n) pl: a big pile of bags full of money acquired through the purposeful abuse of those who are forced to be dependant on you and your meager handouts.

Clarification: Laurels is not a recognition of achievement


*I have to acknowledge my source on this information : Dictionary el Telkom: Our world as We see it - Papi Molotsane 1st Nov. 2005 revision
 
kaspaas said:
If I'm not mistaken a 350 ping is close to to minimum dictated by the laws of physics.
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It's about 130 milliseconds to travel once round the earth (at the equator), so about 70 milliseconds to Europe should be possible (without considering protocol overhead and packet switching etc).
 
kaspaas said:
What is the minimum time it takes an electrical impulse to travel from South Africa to Europe?

You can't do anything better than the limits of physics.

If I'm not mistaken a 350 ping is close to to minimum dictated by the laws of physics.
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So are you telling me; that we dont have the technology today in this world anywhere to be able to connect to europe with a 30ms ping?
 
LJDK said:
So are you telling me; that we dont have the technology today in this world anywhere to be able to connect to europe with a 30ms ping?
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Unless we can prove Einstein wrong, it's physically impossible to communicate further than 9000km with a 30ms ping...
 
LJDK said:
So are you telling me; that we dont have the technology today in this world anywhere to be able to connect to europe with a 30ms ping?
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The technology exists, but you have to physically be in Europe to get 30ms ping times [to Europe], either that or get photons & sub-atomic particles to travel faster than the speed of light from SA to Europe [and visa versa] - in which case its best to get rid of guavamint & Telkodemonopolies now bcos they have a nasty habit of slowing things down in multiple measures of Earth years...
 
You're fogetting that the signal has to get there and back. So it's 70ms x2 = 140ms.

...if you had a fibre cable between your PC and the server you want to connect to.
Everyone else has to go thru routers which slows things down a lot.
 
Pox said:
You're fogetting that the signal has to get there and back. So it's 70ms x2 = 140ms.
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True for a ping (so I guess that's 4500km), but for a game you don't necessarily need the round trip - both clients can just broadcast their state as they see it, and reconcile differences as packets arrive.
 
I have much to learn. Either way im greatly disapointed. Guess ill be playing south african players for the rest of my life :(
ANother question; does the ping for a game be the same as a cmd ping to another workstation?
 
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*in which case its best to get rid of guavamint & Telkodemonopolies now ...*

count me in.....:D
 
Well Neotel can sign me up anyday. Id support them to get on their feet.
 
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