Online Gaming with Cybersmart

[The Rock ZA]

Hi Guys

Im hoping to get some much needed help from the "Experts".Im thinking of going over to ADSL for my online gaming experience and i see that Cybersmart offer the Cheapest uncapped deals.

Is there any gamers who use them as an ISP and how is their service.

[Crzwaco]

Witch package are you referring to?

[The Rock ZA]

1mbps uncapped

[Crzwaco]

1mbps uncapped

I see a lot of peeps on mybroadband don't have problems gaming on it.

But best is to test it for 2/3 month and see how it is since it all depends on where you live some ISP(Afrihost,Openweb,WebAfrica) might work best where you live.

[The Rock ZA]

Thanxs Dude,i use 8ta or Cell C @ the moment but the pings are just to high for 1st Person Shooter games,Hoping to get a better experience with ADSL.I've been reading a few of the threads and found that some have no problem gaming with 365k line so im hoping 1mbsp will do the trick for me. Cell C is actually quite good were i stay on a 7.2mbps stick i sometimes get 8+mbps but the ping is sometimes well over 90.
8ta on the other hand was very good when i got it but then after 1 month or so the speeds started to drop and i could only game in my lounge cant even do a speedtest in the rest of the house

[Crzwaco]

Thanxs Dude,i use 8ta or Cell C @ the moment but the pings are just to high for 1st Person Shooter games,Hoping to get a better experience with ADSL.I've been reading a few of the threads and found that some have no problem gaming with 365k line so im hoping 1mbsp will do the trick for me. Cell C is actually quite good were i stay on a 7.2mbps stick i sometimes get 8+mbps but the ping is sometimes well over 90.
8ta on the other hand was very good when i got it but then after 1 month or so the speeds started to drop and i could only game in my lounge cant even do a speedtest in the rest of the house

You will have no problems playing games on a 384kbps line its when your one person, problem with it is the dam slow download speed. But at least telkom is upgrading all(readfineprintontelkomwebsite) 384 lines to 1 meg and 1meg lines to 2meg.

Just do yourself a fav don't get into a 2 year contract thing too many things changing in the adsl space to be stuck on a contract.Get a month to month package.

[TBlaar]

Get Cybersmart, it's fast and cheap, but pray to jesus that you never have to call them for support

[panthis]

1mbps uncapped

Word of warning. Im currently on their 1 mb uncapped and i am having endless issues. I can join games/servers and play without an issue, but then out of the blue i join a server, get about 3 minutes in and then pings skyrocket to 700+. dota hits in excess of 1500ms. i took out a 1 gig mweb adsl account and pings are even lower than the cybersmart were on its best day.

just my 2c

[The Rock ZA]

Word of warning. Im currently on their 1 mb uncapped and i am having endless issues. I can join games/servers and play without an issue, but then out of the blue i join a server, get about 3 minutes in and then pings skyrocket to 700+. dota hits in excess of 1500ms. i took out a 1 gig mweb adsl account and pings are even lower than the cybersmart were on its best day.

just my 2c

Just called them (Sounds like there's only 1 person in there call centre) the guy told me if i take out the 364k uncapped and telkom upgrade my speed to 1mbps i will still just pay the R199pm for the then 1mps uncapped service which includes adsl line rental.WOW think i'll give a try for a month a so.

[Cybersmart]

Hi guys, thank you for taking an interest in our products and considering Cybersmart as your service provider. In response to a few queries raised, capped and uncapped accounts have different contention ratios and the two cannot be compared. Once Telkom has completed circuit upgrades, our prices will not remain static, they’ll change as per pricing changes made by Telkom. The pricing of the data portion of our accounts will be adjusted as per ADSL circuit speed
Thanks
Team Cybersmart