Vox Telecom Fatpipe

sveed said:
Why can I hardly ever stream twitch properly using Vox?

Back when I used to have a 2mb connection I could stream on medium with it very occasionally pausing to buffer. That was with a different ISP. Now that I'm on Vox and using a 4mb connection, I experience unreasonable amounts of buffering while still on medium. There are very few evenings when I can watch a stream without it cutting out so much.

Downloads are fine, youtube is fine, latency is generally ok. It's mostly just twitch that doesn't seem to play nicely.
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Rather play the games yourself, instead of watching others playing ;)
 
Icemanbrfc said:
Rather play the games yourself, instead of watching others playing ;)
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Why do people watch sport when they could just go play it themself?

Is it not because the people you watch are on a level you will never be? Is that not the same reason why the most popular Twitch channels are successful?
 
Bryn said:
Why do people watch sport when they could just go play it themself?

Is it not because the people you watch are on a level you will never be? Is that not the same reason why the most popular Twitch channels are successful?
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Not sure I get this Bryn. For what it's worth, I actually play football and cricket ;)
 
Icemanbrfc said:
Rather play the games yourself, instead of watching others playing ;)
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I do both at the same time, dual monitor setup :D
Besides that I enjoy watching competitive gaming which now days I'm too casual to get involved in.

And thanks again Soul Assassin. Looks like I can stream on high without issue now.
 
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Service is absolutely pathetic atm,

Sent an email to enquire about cancellation - no response - followed up - no response.


i.e. do not use vox
 
requiem said:
Service is absolutely pathetic atm,

Sent an email to enquire about cancellation - no response - followed up - no response.


i.e. do not use vox
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Their e-mail support is appalling. Try phoning maybe, it's ridiculous that you'd have to do this with an ISP but if you want it done quicker it may be the solution.

I tried their live chat a while back which was is essentially just you typing to yourself. I see their live chat doesn't even load now.
 
DrJohnZoidberg said:
Their e-mail support is appalling. Try phoning maybe, it's ridiculous that you'd have to do this with an ISP but if you want it done quicker it may be the solution.

I tried their live chat a while back which was is essentially just you typing to yourself. I see their live chat doesn't even load now.
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I just checked and see connection is refused, I used the live chat a week or so ago and it went great and I was immediately helped by someone.
 
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DrJohnZoidberg said:
Their e-mail support is appalling. Try phoning maybe, it's ridiculous that you'd have to do this with an ISP but if you want it done quicker it may be the solution.

I tried their live chat a while back which was is essentially just you typing to yourself. I see their live chat doesn't even load now.
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You were right. I phoned them, and they instruct me to send an email to cancel.

What a pathetic joke.

Eventually got someone with a brain on the call who cancelled my account.
 
I take it the Western Cape is out of Bandwidth again?
It has been getting slower all afternoon and now there is no chance of Streaming anything tonight.
 
I agree, trying to download 100 meg file on my 40 meg VDSL, and it's been more than 10 minutes already. I'm in George (Western Cape)

caroper said:
I take it the Western Cape is out of Bandwidth again?
It has been getting slower all afternoon and now there is no chance of Streaming anything tonight.
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[-]No problems here.[/-]

Woop, I should check before posting. Yes - it's suddenly dipped, checking my Forza download and has dropped to 3Mbps.
 
Dead slow again tonight. During the day, speedtest shows 38MB/s, and I can download accordingly. Tonight, speedtest is still 38MB/s, but downloads hovering around 500Kb/s. Something is seriosly wrong at vox. Getting afrihost flashbacks here.
 
DaBump said:
Dead slow again tonight. During the day, speedtest shows 38MB/s, and I can download accordingly. Tonight, speedtest is still 38MB/s, but downloads hovering around 500Kb/s. Something is seriosly wrong at vox. Getting afrihost flashbacks here.
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What downloads are slow? I can test my side too.
 
DaBump said:
Dead slow again tonight. During the day, speedtest shows 38MB/s, and I can download accordingly. Tonight, speedtest is still 38MB/s, but downloads hovering around 500Kb/s. Something is seriosly wrong at vox. Getting afrihost flashbacks here.
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MB/s = megabytes per second. 38MB/s is 304Mbps. Is this really your connection?

I left Afrihost too due to poor performance. Crystal Web has been amazing. Consider giving them a go if you ditch Vox.
 
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