Free Uncapped ADSL trial accounts prioritised for gaming

Ok, I've been test driving the 4Mbps trial for a few days, and when I read the title, I was wondering if it meant that the trial accounts are prioritized, but the actual accounts aren't. Apparently the they are provisioned exactly the same, so that makes me feel better about it.

The trial products are provisioned in the same configuration as our billable products, to ensure that the experience you have on one of our trial products gives you an accurate view of what your service will be like when you sign up with MWEB
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Anyway, I did a few speed and ping tests on my WA account, then switched to the MWeb trial and did some more, and I've played a few hours of Battlefield on the XBox to see how it goes. I've also downloaded a few games to the XBox and PS3, and so far so good.

I noticed that local connections were faster and had much better ping on MWeb than on WA, but WA was a little better on international connections than MWeb. Playing BF, where I usually see 4 bar connections to the EU servers with WA, I saw 3 bar connections with MWeb, but I think it's because I was just under 200ms ping on WA, and just over 200ms ping on MWeb. I didn't have any problems with lag though, so it seems fine, I think it's just a few ms difference really.

I also watched some YouTube through the XBox, and it all ran lekker without buffering or anything.

If I keep running out of bandwidth, I might just change over to MWeb
 
Matt, bear in mind that you are based in Johannesburg. Mweb has data centres in JHB and CPT, whereas WebAfrica has a data centre only in CPT. That will add about 20ms to your local latency round trip.
 
James said:
Matt, bear in mind that you are based in Johannesburg. Mweb has data centres in JHB and CPT, whereas WebAfrica has a data centre only in CPT. That will add about 20ms to your local latency round trip.
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That explains it, but it does mean that jhb users will get better local pings on MWeb. I generally get (local) pings of around 67ms on WA, but MWeb was around 20ms. I can't remember the exact numbers, but I think the international connections were somewhere around 196ms on WA, and 203ms on MWeb, so almost the same there. Speed locally was much faster on MWeb, and international was a little faster on WA.

TBH, WA and MWeb both seem to be performing well at the moment. It'll cost me an extra R100 a month to move from my 50GB on WA to uncapped on MWeb, so I'll only move if I run out of bandwidth often.
 
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