Neotel priority for gamers

[agentrfr]

Now, this is going the exact same way iBurst did. Now I'm going to skip the whole history lesson and just go straight to the point. Gamers. Yep, we are here and we are probably using Neotel lines because there is no ADSL in our area, but we like games.

Ive already played cod4 and got a decent score with a latency of about 120ms, with spikes and all (ironically, iBurst was exactly the same story). Playable, but not great. Then the idea hit iBurst, and by Jove, best idea ever!!
Optimise the accounts that gamers use. Give them priority so they can play competetively and have constant pings. The idea worked, and I was happily playing on my iBurst modem, getting pings of 50ms and eating the pings of people with ADSL lines.

So the question is. Will Neotel optimize the accounts of us gamers ?

 

[Ice2Cool]

That would be awesome if they did - I think if enough people show interest they may create a special product tailored to gamers... What do you say neotel rep??

 

[spiderz]

If they do that, i'll be moving over to Neotel too.

 

[erasma]

That would be great would allow for skype as well!

I don't think the current Modems allow for that type of service - the noeflex would do the trick

 

[hpwolf]

neoflex

neoflex modems are just as rubish as the normal modems

 

[theenemesis]

any time soon would be great...

 

[theenemesis]

Oops sory can we get browsing speeds back atleast before this happens sumday....

 

[Devo-sa]

Neotel first has to optimise their network to actually work, before that could be looked at.

 

[Tugelarider]

So....

If i want to keep on playing COD4 and 5 on oversea servers i have to stay with helkom ?? Notell's packages looked very attractive but after reading this... i'll keep my mouth shut about telkom and be happy on some sniper server...

 

[Ice2Cool]

So....

If i want to keep on playing COD4 and 5 on oversea servers i have to stay with helkom ?? Notell's packages looked very attractive but after reading this... i'll keep my mouth shut about telkom and be happy on some sniper server...

Yup international servers are definately a no go on neotel...

 

[pope24]

One of Neotel's biggest issues is a lack of consistence. Not only can your ping vary from 300ms to 3000 ms (in WoW) but you also get moments when the lag is at 500ms and without the game pickinng it up it spikes. And then returns to normal.
The official lag remains at 500ms but you are now dead.

 

[HermanTheGerman]

Is that even possible?
I mean, well, I thought the bad pings are caused on the last mile, when you're on the friggin wireless connection to the next base station. I'm on SL and my pings there afre between 600 - 800 ms, so most of the fun stuff in SL is not really accesible for my poor little avatar. Driving cars, riding bikes, flying, powerboating ... all ends up in catastrophes and eventually crashes.
Would be so kewl if Neotel could speed things up a little, and get rid of the spikes. I'd even be willing to pay a bit more for the service.

 

[agentrfr]

I think that everyone would be willing to pay extra, but then everyone would do that anyway, and we'd be stuck with the same problem.

The neotel rep is collecting info of people so that engineers can be sent out on-site, for some data collection and some optimization thingy (maybe just pointing the aerial the right way...). Anyways, they should fix everything soon. iBurst was exactly the same. Great service, influx of users, speed degradation, optimization, infrastructure overhaul and then eventually great speeds and pings. I just hope it doesn't take neotel 2 years to sort their stuff out like it took iBurst

 

[Playoff]

Screamer Telecoms does tune their clients connections. I asked for low latency and a 1Mb connection and this is what I am getting.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/424780026.png

 

[agentrfr]

Screamer only does wimax, not CDMA EVDO like Neotel :/

Still, pretty good speed though, and as a side-note, to get an uncapped 1meg account from Screamer, it'd cost 4k a month. Neotel is 1k for a 2.2meg line, so soon as everything is fixed on Neotel's end, they'd be the way better option anyways.

 

[Playoff]

Screamer only does wimax, not CDMA EVDO like Neotel :/

Still, pretty good speed though, and as a side-note, to get an uncapped 1meg account from Screamer, it'd cost 4k a month. Neotel is 1k for a 2.2meg line, so soon as everything is fixed on Neotel's end, they'd be the way better option anyways.

I pay R500 and something for my 5Gig package on Screamer WiMax and not R4K.
Do you know anyone who actually gets anything near 2.2mg for their R1K on Neotel?

 

[HermanTheGerman]

The neotel rep is collecting info of people so that engineers can be sent out on-site, for some data collection and some optimization thingy (maybe just pointing the aerial the right way...)

Been there, done that, didn't get a t-shirt though. With that fancy Poynting antenna gracing my humble roof now I see constantly 4 bars on my device ... still the pings (600 - 800 ms overseas) are unbearable.

If Neotel truly wants to become the next big thing in SA telecommunication they should start laying out fiber to the house. It is possible. Other countries have shown us how to do it. It only needs some investment, some determination and some planning.
... Oh ****, always forgetting we're not in a real country here but in hippie paradise

 

[nukem]

Screamer Telecoms does tune their clients connections. I asked for low latency and a 1Mb connection and this is what I am getting.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/424780026.png

that is an excellent ping

 

[Ice2Cool]

Where is most of the latency introduced on neotel? Im on neoflex and my ping is about 200ms for jhb server. 200ms is awfully high for local.