I have been playing on-line games since I first had an ISDN line. I moved to ADSL as soon as it became available in our area (Wavecrest Jeffreys Bay) approximately 2 years ago. Until 4 weeks ago I was able to play on the local servers (both SGS and UGSA) with pings averaging 45-65.
Something changed after an area-wide ADSL outage 5 weeks ago. My pings are never below 145 and web-browsing was a major problem with some URLs (noteably the SGS Forums) taking up to 18 minutes to display.
In an effort to resolve the issue I have replaced the router, NIC, CAT5 cable between the router and PC and even used a spare HDD to clean install Windows XP SP2 (including all the critical updates) and BF2 (Patch 1.41) to no avail. I even tried using an Mweb account and then an Intekom account - the problem remained.
I contacted my ISP (Axxess) who said the problem lay with Telkom. At this point I started asking other gamers in the area and found, to my astonishment, that they were also having major issues with unplayable pings. There are 3 us in Wavecrest with the same problem.
I duly logged a fault with Telkom yesterday and this morning the technician changed the DSLAM at the exchange (twice) and came to the house to check for faults. Nothing was found and the situation WRT the ping problem has not changed at all.
I have been given 2 test accounts by the ADSL helpdesk. One shaped and the other unshaped. I have used both and my ping problem remains unresolved.
Other gamers around the country are experiencing similar problems, notably in the Eastern Cape and PE in particular.
Having read on these forums yesterday about the AUP and resultant changes in Telkom's policies I wonder if the gaming community are the first to experience said changes? If this is the future of gaming in SA where we cannot even connect to a local gaming server then I will be first in line to cancel my DSL line and I hope that others will do the same.
Something changed after an area-wide ADSL outage 5 weeks ago. My pings are never below 145 and web-browsing was a major problem with some URLs (noteably the SGS Forums) taking up to 18 minutes to display.
In an effort to resolve the issue I have replaced the router, NIC, CAT5 cable between the router and PC and even used a spare HDD to clean install Windows XP SP2 (including all the critical updates) and BF2 (Patch 1.41) to no avail. I even tried using an Mweb account and then an Intekom account - the problem remained.
I contacted my ISP (Axxess) who said the problem lay with Telkom. At this point I started asking other gamers in the area and found, to my astonishment, that they were also having major issues with unplayable pings. There are 3 us in Wavecrest with the same problem.
I duly logged a fault with Telkom yesterday and this morning the technician changed the DSLAM at the exchange (twice) and came to the house to check for faults. Nothing was found and the situation WRT the ping problem has not changed at all.
I have been given 2 test accounts by the ADSL helpdesk. One shaped and the other unshaped. I have used both and my ping problem remains unresolved.
Other gamers around the country are experiencing similar problems, notably in the Eastern Cape and PE in particular.
Having read on these forums yesterday about the AUP and resultant changes in Telkom's policies I wonder if the gaming community are the first to experience said changes? If this is the future of gaming in SA where we cannot even connect to a local gaming server then I will be first in line to cancel my DSL line and I hope that others will do the same.
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