Best ADSL ISP for gaming in South Africa

+1 where is CW? The bias from MyBB is real. Meanwhile, only CW has cared enough so far to resolve a Blizzard routing issue, making their online games playable again.

GG no re.
 
I'll say this one more time in this thread. (Perhaps I should make a general announcement in the announcements forum...)

I'm taking a hard-line stance on negativity wherever I see it in this forum. This includes nonsense like "the bias from MyBB is real".

I've seen what negativity like that does to online communities and I will not have it on MyGaming. For the sake of having a warning somewhere on the forum, I'll leave this up, but in future I will simply delete posts in this vein.

If you are curious about something, feel free to ask questions, but do not couch your questions in an accusation based on some rubbish you read somewhere.

Now... to answer the offensively phrased question: "How is Crystal Web nowhere in this article?":

As I have it, Crystal Web uses Internet Solutions as an upstream provider, so their IPs fall within IS' IP range. You also don't see ISPs like Webafrica on the list for the same reason.
 
Not sure how my question was "offensively phrased".

I use CW and it was a genuine question, and it wasn't hidden any MyBB-hatrid agenda. I have used many ISPs and found CW to be the best. Felt that leaving them out was doing a disservice to gamers wanting great connectivity.

My pings in BF4 and CSGO do not reflect those shown under the IS umbrella. They're significantly better.

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DuckKnuckle said:
Not sure how my question was "offensively phrased".

I use CW and it was a genuine question, and it wasn't hidden any MyBB-hatrid agenda. I have used many ISPs and found CW to be the best. Felt that leaving them out was doing a disservice to gamers wanting great connectivity.
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My apologies, then. Your question caused Kryptyk to pile on, and I may have been unfair to tar both with the same brush.

Just to be clear: CW wasn't left out. No more than Webafrica or Plugg/AlwaysOn, anyway. I think there's still a bit of an issue separating IS-based ISPs out of IS' address pool. Not sure if that is something we can fix just yet, but I'll ask.

However, you may have noticed that this data has informed two pricing comparisons I've done in the past month, and Webafrica and CW were included there as examples of IS-based ISPs.
 
Jan said:
My apologies, then. Your question caused Kryptyk to pile on, and I may have been unfair to tar both with the same brush.

Just to be clear: CW wasn't left out. No more than Webafrica or Plugg/AlwaysOn, anyway. I think there's still a bit of an issue separating IS-based ISPs out of IS' address pool. Not sure if that is something we can fix just yet, but I'll ask.

However, you may have noticed that this data has informed two pricing comparisons I've done in the past month, and Webafrica and CW were included there as examples of IS-based ISPs.
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What if you were to do a best ISP using (IS, telkom, seacom, whatever...) as a backbone?
 
czc said:
What if you were to do a best ISP using (IS, telkom, seacom, whatever...) as a backbone?
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I'm not sure if I understand you 100%, but that test would be more subjective than this Speedtest-based one.

I would have to run those tests on my own, which not only means having to buy the accounts myself (not an issue of I do this over 6-9 months), but variables like time-of-day congestion variances, temporary outages, issues caused by upstream problems every-so-often, and my location would factor in.

By sourcing the data from a bunch of people conducting speed tests, those factors get smoothed out by the average.
 
Jan said:
I'm not sure if I understand you 100%, but that test would be more subjective than this Speedtest-based one.

I would have to run those tests on my own, which not only means having to buy the accounts myself (not an issue of I do this over 6-9 months), but variables like time-of-day congestion variances, temporary outages, issues caused by upstream problems every-so-often, and my location would factor in.

By sourcing the data from a bunch of people conducting speed tests, those factors get smoothed out by the average.
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Ah, I didn't realise that. I thought you could do a company x, ping to a, b, c servers, which in hindsight is quite subjective in terms of location, equipment etc?
 
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