TheRealWitblitz
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It simply does not compute, work, gel or whatever you want to call it.
Their site clearly states from their bandwidth priority profile that no major port shaping takes place in the Silver bracket of which this package belongs to, depending on traffic of course, but you shouldn't have any major issues otherwise they claim. Their traffic management method used to assign different traffic protocols such as Gaming, P2P or VoIP are on different priority levels and this particular connection has "High" rating assigned on its gaming profile, but I think the word you are looking for is "Appalling". So simply put, any form of on online gaming just isn't viable on their 2MB home adsl (R299) uncapped (at least).
Here is the kicker. I have two other account, one is an Axxess uncapped 2mb connection which ran out yesterday (30th) as I cancelled it in favour for the WA 2Mb (and here I thought WA will be even better), I never had any issue with the Axxess connection. From downloading to gaming it was all smooth sailing for the most part. I also have one FNB connect account as a backup just in case (I get free GBs as part of being a platinum cheque book holder so why not), and even their connection holds up during gaming sessions. So my question is why is WA so poor?
A few games taking up majority of my time:
DOTA 2 - major hitching and warping with a 200ms ping!
World of Tanks - same thing here, latency between 200-230ms which is perfectly playable but with major packet loss causing warping and rubber banding all over the place.
Diablo III - Intermittent loot lagging and small but noticeable hitching in places.
World of Warcraft - A cool green bar but with the same warping of characters and entities on screen.
As I clearly said, I didn't have any of these issues on those other two connections.
What does it come down to, probable port shaping or packet loss?
PS = This is my personal feedback I'm not affiliated with any company or group.
Their site clearly states from their bandwidth priority profile that no major port shaping takes place in the Silver bracket of which this package belongs to, depending on traffic of course, but you shouldn't have any major issues otherwise they claim. Their traffic management method used to assign different traffic protocols such as Gaming, P2P or VoIP are on different priority levels and this particular connection has "High" rating assigned on its gaming profile, but I think the word you are looking for is "Appalling". So simply put, any form of on online gaming just isn't viable on their 2MB home adsl (R299) uncapped (at least).
Here is the kicker. I have two other account, one is an Axxess uncapped 2mb connection which ran out yesterday (30th) as I cancelled it in favour for the WA 2Mb (and here I thought WA will be even better), I never had any issue with the Axxess connection. From downloading to gaming it was all smooth sailing for the most part. I also have one FNB connect account as a backup just in case (I get free GBs as part of being a platinum cheque book holder so why not), and even their connection holds up during gaming sessions. So my question is why is WA so poor?
A few games taking up majority of my time:
DOTA 2 - major hitching and warping with a 200ms ping!
World of Tanks - same thing here, latency between 200-230ms which is perfectly playable but with major packet loss causing warping and rubber banding all over the place.
Diablo III - Intermittent loot lagging and small but noticeable hitching in places.
World of Warcraft - A cool green bar but with the same warping of characters and entities on screen.
As I clearly said, I didn't have any of these issues on those other two connections.
What does it come down to, probable port shaping or packet loss?
PS = This is my personal feedback I'm not affiliated with any company or group.
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