Afrihost has announced that its ADSL network upgrade is complete. This upgrade included an increase in capacity (from 8Gbps to 13Gbps) and IPCs in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. According to Afrihost this brings benefits to gamers on their network.
“With our move onto the MTN network late last year, [MTN’s] network capacity had expanded to 8Gbps, a 30% increase from their previous capacity of approximately 6Gbps on the IS network,” Afrihost said.
“For us to continue to deliver the best ADSL experience for our clients, we expanded our network by an additional 60% – from 8Gbps to 13Gbps.”
“Having greater capacity will definitely have a positive impact on gaming for our clients” said an Afrihost spokesperson, speaking to MyGaming.
“In addition to the IPC in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, we have also upgraded our international capacity on EASSy and WACS undersea cables.”
“This means that international traffic, like gaming, break out of Telkom’s network quicker more and directly onto undersea cables on the East and West Coast. This delivers high speed, low latency gaming to clients nationally, along the shortest routes.”
As of February and March 2013, Cape Town and Durban’s respective dedicated IPCs went live.
As of March 2013, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban respectively enjoy 8Gbps, 3Gbps and 2Gbps dedicated IPCs with the new network upgrades. The entire 13Gbps network is fully operational.
“The new IPCs will allow traffic to break out of Telkom’s network at the earliest possible point (the closest local IPC) and onto MTN’s high-speed fibre national network, which has also been recently upgraded for the fastest and most reliable national backhaul.
Whether clients are gaming locally or internationally, they can be assured of the best performance on our upgraded infrastructure,” said Afrihost.
Speaking to gaming traffic management policy, Afrihost said: “Gaming traffic, as a real time service, receives highest priority on the network. We never shape gaming traffic, and gaming traffic will get higher priority over downloads and torrents, this is applicable on Uncapped accounts as Capped accounts are not shaped.”
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Must say, I am a customer with them and they are pretty good. But I don’t experience any better latency. Mind you before the switch I always average at about 190ms, but now it hardly ever drops below 230ms.