What ISP for WoW

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hi guys, im realy confused on what ISP to choose for online games atm, im atm on Axxess lite and its a dam joke during the day i get around 600ms+ and at night well i wont even go there.

i contacted WA and there titan special is over so im not sure what or where to go to actualy get good MS for online games atm.

please any advice will be great
 
I havn't played WoW for a couple of months, but I found an unshaped mtn business (formerly Verizon) adsl account works very well. I was getting about 270-350ms in the evenings and weekends.

I'm not sure which resellers supply those accounts though (mine is a benefit of where I work), but I'm sure someone can assist there.

The main thing is to look for unshaped. Any shaped account is likely to give you worse pings, especially during a work day.

I've heard of some guys getting some very good pings, as low as 240ms using some providers, but I never found out which ones.
 
Might have a look at someone like Nexus, I had a lot of hours happily raiding away on their 1GB unshaped accounts, ave ping with skype / vent still < 350ms.

But, I have been out of the game for a while, so my comments might be outdated -- What I remember is that the trick is to get onto the SAIX backbone -- It doesn't really matter which ISP but SAIX >> IS with regards to latency. SAIX -- normally via the SAT3 cable, IS normally via Satellite.

You don't want satellite if you want a low ping.

Anyway - just my 2c
 
dude, do yourself a favour and hook up a Webafrica prepaid account... 1GB will keep you going for yonks on WOW.

I got this and last night I was sitting at 220ms average... very impressive indeed. It did drop below 200ms, but most of the time was around 220ms.

Just make sure you doctor your connection with the latency fix... (see sticky on this sub-forum)

and you good to go! :)
 
Well i cant help you much on isp's but if wow ping is your main concern head over to www.battleping.com , Its amazing and free. made wow very enjoyable.
 
HTC_guy said:
dude, do yourself a favour and hook up a Webafrica prepaid account... 1GB will keep you going for yonks on WOW.
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Doesn't the WA prepaid account only last 1 month? regardless of whether you use your cap or not?

Thats what it says on their website anyway.

R99/m for 1GB is a lot.
 
Nope.

Prepaid never expires, and as such is more expensive.
Recharge expires at end of month, is around R15/g but you have to top up 3gb at at time at least.

Recharge is only available on non prepaid accounts though.
 
D34M0n7 said:
Doesn't the WA prepaid account only last 1 month? regardless of whether you use your cap or not?

Thats what it says on their website anyway.

R99/m for 1GB is a lot.
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R99 for the 1GB is unshaped - you really don't need unshaped for WoW, at least not on WA. It used to be the case long ago, but there's practically no difference anymore.
 
So WA prepaid is just like Afrihost/Axxess prepaid, it lasts until you use up the cap you bought?

Only reason why I'm asking this is coz when I tried to buy a WA prepaid account I chose 1GB and next to it, it said 1 month, so I thought it would only last 1 month.
 
WoW US Testing

SAOL: 1500+ Ping. Ie. Worthless
WebAfrica: 500 ping but Disconnects every 5 minutes. Ie. Worthless.

I wonder if anyone in this country can supply internet that works.
 
Quakedog ... WebAfrica Unshaped (R89 / GB Expiring at month end) provides constant good latency (Sub 500ms) to the WoW Europe servers.
It's also damn expensive.

But, you did not tell us which servers you want to play on.

@P3rs0n, which WebAfrica product? Be specific please.
 
getting best results so far with webafrica shaped + lowping. going try that nexusISP too :)
 
p3rs0n said:
WoW US Testing

SAOL: 1500+ Ping. Ie. Worthless
WebAfrica: 500 ping but Disconnects every 5 minutes. Ie. Worthless.

I wonder if anyone in this country can supply internet that works.
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Makes me wonder if there is not actually a problem with his line, having problems with both those ISPs is concerning.
 
Currently there are still issues with SAT3 afaik, but typically WA/SAOL have been giving the best results for us guild wide with folks averaging 260-400.
 
Tinuva said:
Makes me wonder if there is not actually a problem with his line, having problems with both those ISPs is concerning.
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Telkom says there is no problem.

WA Shaped 25GB Data Only Package.
10GB Shaped SAOL Data Only Package.
Telkom 4MB ADSL Line.
 
Angellus said:
I don't really understand why people are so obsessed with Webafrica. I'm using Mweb Uncapped 4096k. My average ping is 350ms. A friend told me about Battleping a few days ago and using that my ping is now averaging between 250-270ms in 25 man raids. Battleping is still free which makes it even more awesome.

I have done more than 150gb this month on Mweb, my ping is the same or better than people on Webafrica that I know.

What would it cost to get 150gb from webafrica? I'm betting quite a lot more than R539.
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See, m-web uses Seacom and not Sat3. You getting 250ms is highly unbelievable, or very very lucky. To start off with, latency to London over M-Web start at 230ms vs WA that starts at 170ms. See that is a HUGE difference.

Now add game latency and the additional distance to the WoW servers and you easily sit with more. Personally I achieved 198ms as lowest but 220ms as my general stable ping at which is sits most of the time and at bad busy times 280ms. All of these on a WA account. My experience wasn't the same on the M-Web account, but generally I had 350ms stable and 300ms lowest on M-Web myself. On both accounts I used to play on EU-Sylvanas.

You are probably just playing on a realm which is much closer to M-Web's transit landing points so you get pretty decent latency on that. The other fact is, I stay in Cape Town, which means SAT3 is almost at my doorstep, where as just getting to Seacom adds 30-40ms to my latency!
 
Angellus said:
I don't really understand why people are so obsessed with Webafrica. I'm using Mweb Uncapped 4096k. My average ping is 350ms..
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A couple of our guys claim the same, but on occasion suffer DC's / lag at very unfortunate times causing wipes...
 
I got 280ms on WA's shaped accounts. Haven't found anything better yet.
 
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