Will MWEB utilize WACS? (Improved UK Latency)?

[saffakanera]

Hi there, as in the title, will MWEB be utilizing WACS?

 

[MWEBHelp]

Hi saffakanera

I am not able to give you any specifics at this point in time.

We continuously look at other options as we are always looking better redundancy on our network.

 

[saffakanera]

Hi saffakanera

I am not able to give you any specifics at this point in time.

We continuously look at other options as we are always looking better redundancy on our network.

MWEB Guy, thanks for the quick communication, but we will get killer latencies to the Empire through that cable, please beg your overlords to buy some of that action!

 

[Yuu]

MWEB Guy, thanks for the quick communication, but we will get killer latencies to the Empire through that cable, please beg your overlords to buy some of that action!

THIS!!!

MWEB will be known as the Telecoms operator in S.A and Telkom may disappear lol ...

 

[MWEBHelp]

MWEB Guy, thanks for the quick communication, but we will get killer latencies to the Empire through that cable, please beg your overlords to buy some of that action!

I will pass this on to the correct people.

 

[saffakanera]

Uno problemo:

"The cable is seen as “open access” in that any ISP can buy bandwidth from any of the companies who own a portion of the cable. But, warned Song, “open access” is a “vague term”. “If you want to buy access, you still have to buy through the owners, none of whom is famous for discounting,” he said.

One wild card amid the pack, however, is state-owned Broadband Infraco."

I would say, considering Government's push for bb penetration, that Mweb approach BI with an offer.

 

[SirFooK'nG]

saffa.... what kind of ping? sub 250ms?

 

[saffakanera]

saffa.... what kind of ping? sub 250ms?

Think Lower

Roundtrip to CT of about 110ms.

Also, just found this:

"Nevertheless, the wholesale cost of bandwidth directly to ISPs could be halved through the introduction of WACS."

 

[SirFooK'nG]

+- 100 ?

EDIT 110 .. lol missed that .. hell you can play competitively with MW3 on that ping!
I would love to kick sum pom as s !

 

[saffakanera]

+- 100 ?

Go here: http://www.numion.com/calculators/Distance.html

Its about 16000kmx2 (for a roundtrip ping packet.) From end to end. It looks incredibly impressive from the theoretical latency at least.

The cable has a throughput of 43980465111040 bits per second.

 

[saffakanera]

Correction, its 14000kmx2, which means, given the throughput, a round trip ping would be 93ms.... That's MOERSE impressive!

 

[SirFooK'nG]

so it will add 53ms onto my current +-50 to Capetown so hell .. thats quick! But then we still need to consider all the routes it will pass thru....

 

[Franna]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WACS_(cable_system)

One of the four fibre pairs is a direct route from South Africa to Europe, a so-called express lane. The second and third fibre pairs are designed as a semi-express lane, one with two hops, from Europe to West Africa and West Africa to Europe and the other with three stops. The fourth fibre pair is an omnibus fibre that stops off at all landing ports en route.

The express lane is going to have super-awesome low latency from SA to EU.

MWeb Guy [Offtopic] = How is the Mweb Level3 CDN coming along. Any ETA?

 

[saffakanera]

so it will add 53ms onto my current +-50 to Capetown so hell .. thats quick!

haha, no, those figures are point to point, so if you sat on the beach in Melkbosstrand and had your machine connected directly, and pinged a chap sitting on the beach on the other side

So you, in Gauteng/Durbs, adding the 50ms, would see 150ms. Which is still bloody impressive.

Incredible that it takes 100ms to reach the UK and back, but 50ms to cross local.

 

[SirFooK'nG]

yeah.... Dbn to JHB is about 30ms and Dbn to CPT is 50ms. 150ms is not too lekka tho for gaming... will be quite laggy playable, but not cool....

With all the new fibre being laid out accross SA, hopefully latencies will improve locally.

 

[saffakanera]

yeah.... Dbn to JHB is about 30ms and Dbn to CPT is 50ms. 150ms is not too lekka tho for gaming... will be quite laggy playable, but not cool....

Think you would be surprised, remember this cable has DEPTH, lots of it, you wont rubberband/fluctuate as hard because of a small throughput roof, which allot of services lately don't offer.

As an example, there's a HUGE difference when you run an MWEB 1mb uncapped data account over a 4mb ADSL line, much more overhead, and allot less wobbly because its not forced back to earth when it hits its 100Kbps roof.

 

[SirFooK'nG]

Lets hope for the best! Biggest downfall of online gaming with p2p servers is the latency issue, international is down right impossible with games such as COD.

 

[saffakanera]

Lets hope for the best! Biggest downfall of online gaming with p2p servers is the latency issue, international is down right impossible with games such as COD.

In June 2013 we will have a cable spanning ZA to Brazil, that one should produce sub 100ms pings to SA (South America).

 

[SirFooK'nG]

In June 2013 we will have a cable spanning ZA to Brazil, that one should produce sub 100ms pings to SA (South America).

I saw that, branches to N America too...

 

[saffakanera]

Weird, pinged a Portigual gaming server from a Telkominternet account, ping, fluctuating all over the place as usual, was 250ms, MWEB, a solid 230ms.