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KamikazeHamster

KamikazeHamster

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I played WoW about 2 years ago and realised that I would never finish my degree, and my girlfriend would dump me, so I (regrettably) stopped. Now that I'm finishing and have a job lined up, I've been doing my homework and want an opinion on the expenses I'm going to have. Note that she's going to play with me, so this is for 2 accounts. Is this going to be the best setup?

1) Get WoW Europe, since they're our timezone. BTgames.co.za is selling WoW for R115 and TBC for the same (R230 for initial setup of 1 acc).
2) Get a WebAfrica unshaped (1 gig) account for playing traffic. R125 pm
3) Local account is a steal at R19 per gig per month to get patches (ftp.agasa, right?)
4) International shaped surfing is R490 for a 10g or R290 for 5g.

[The ADSL line is already installed and I am not worried about where my game cards are coming from. I'll cross buying Wotlk when it's released. Hoping it takes me a while to level to 55 and the price comes down!]
 
"So I played WoW about 4 years ago and realised that I would never stay employed, and my wife would leave me, so I (thankfully) stopped.


:P
 
KamikazeHamster said:
I played WoW about 2 years ago and realised that I would never finish my degree, and my girlfriend would dump me, so I (regrettably) stopped. Now that I'm finishing and have a job lined up, I've been doing my homework and want an opinion on the expenses I'm going to have. Note that she's going to play with me, so this is for 2 accounts. Is this going to be the best setup?

1) Get WoW Europe, since they're our timezone. BTgames.co.za is selling WoW for R115 and TBC for the same (R230 for initial setup of 1 acc).
2) Get a WebAfrica unshaped (1 gig) account for playing traffic. R125 pm
3) Local account is a steal at R19 per gig per month to get patches (ftp.agasa, right?)
4) International shaped surfing is R490 for a 10g or R290 for 5g.

[The ADSL line is already installed and I am not worried about where my game cards are coming from. I'll cross buying Wotlk when it's released. Hoping it takes me a while to level to 55 and the price comes down!]
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Thats about right. BTGames has cheap gamecards now anyway (@R325 I think)

Welcome back and thanks for introducing your gf as well :P We need more boobies playing. Erf I mean people.... women are people right?:P
 
I think so. Sometimes, I'm not sure. However, I recommend you read David DeAngelo's Double Your Dating for an insight into how their minds' work. ;)

So what about the ISP part of my question? I remember getting 500 to 800ms lag. I expect to get 250 to 300ms on an unshaped. Right?
 
Things have improved somewhat... I'm on 3G (yeah yeah) and I can get 200-500 on a regular basis... maybe someone can post the registry hack (it works!) because it really makes a big difference for us, it made the difference for me from 500-800 to 200-500...

Welcome back, and tbh, Recruit-a-friend!!! :eek: Fastest way to level these days, in a grp with yr gf. Check it out! :cool:

@Acid: WTF??? no moar sexist comments plzzzzz :(
 
And you're looking at about 300-400ms unshaped lag if you're line is setup properly (you're not too far from the exchange etc)

Sarriss said:
@Acid: WTF??? no moar sexist comments plzzzzz :(
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I'm not sexist, just hor.... okay I'll stop. :D
 
Sarriss said:
Things have improved somewhat... I'm on 3G (yeah yeah) and I can get 200-500 on a regular basis... maybe someone can post the registry hack (it works!) because it really makes a big difference for us, it made the difference for me from 500-800 to 200-500...

Welcome back, and tbh, Recruit-a-friend!!! :eek: Fastest way to level these days, in a grp with yr gf. Check it out! :cool:

@Acid: WTF??? no moar sexist comments plzzzzz :(
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But thats asking AcidRazor not to be AcidRazor? :confused:
 
timgaul said:
But thats asking AcidRazor not to be AcidRazor? :confused:
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I know it goes against nature but I forget sometimes how easily offended people can get.

Harden the **** up .... and no I didn't say that. Chopper Reid yo ;)
 
AcidRaZor said:
I know it goes against nature but I forget sometimes how easily offended people can get.

Harden the **** up .... and no I didn't say that. Chopper Reid yo ;)
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Well I wasn't offended, but then again I don't have boobies.... and no I didn't say that. AcidRazor yo ;)

:D:D:D
 
Surely if you play WoW you have no life, and therefore you have no boobies in your lack of life?

Dude take the "recruit a friend" advice. Say you from England or something. You will save many many hours
 
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