{"id":4045,"date":"2009-06-28T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"world-of-warcraft-axxess-626-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/4045-world-of-warcraft-axxess-626-reviewed","title":{"rendered":"World of Warcraft: Axxess 626 reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Product Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An Axxess 626 account is an unshaped bandwidth offering usable with an ADSL line between 6PM to 6AM on weekdays, as well as all day on both Saturdays and Sundays. <\/p>\n<p>The bandwidth is advertised as using the undersea SAT 3 cable as opposed to other cheap ADSL broadband solutions which use slower satellite bandwidth.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Axxess 626 is priced extremely competitively at R45 per GB on a month to month basis, or R55 prepaid. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Latency<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Latency in World of Warcraft proved to be very volatile whilst using a 626 account. At times we experienced latency as low as 230ms, but other times this jumped to as high as a constant 1200ms. <\/p>\n<p>On average one can expect an average latency in the range of 400 to 600ms.<\/p>\n<p>As expected, we found that latency differs tremendously between realms. Oddly enough, we received a lower ping on highly populated realms than we did on the less populated realms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Volatility<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, such a range of volatility in an online game can result in a lot of hair-pulling. Enjoying a low ping, but having to suddenly deal with an extreme lag spike in PvP, for example, is no one&#8217;s idea of a satisfying gameplay experience.<\/p>\n<p>Latency generally stayed fairly low, but the spikes did become very annoying at times. Said spikes were nothing game-breaking, and we were still able to function properly. However the experience was rather disappointing for an unshaped product.<br \/><strong><br \/>How it compares<br \/><\/strong><br \/>Axxess&rsquo; 626 offers generally lower latency than Telkom&rsquo;s shaped bandwidth. However, while the latency may be lower, it is also less consistent with lag spikes being far more frequent. <\/p>\n<p>Axxess 626 is generally comparable to unshaped products from other ISPs with the exception that it suffers from regular lag spikes. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the whole, we were left feeling rather underwhelmed after using the Axxess 626 account. While it most certainly provided a reduction in average latency, the frequent lag spikes and failure to provide any substantial improvement in gameplay experience makes it a bit of a disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>While still offering decent value for those that only use the internet in the evenings, those looking for a good and inexpensive WoW experience may be better off looking at regular shaped bandwidth until Axxess can get the kinks worked out of 626.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axxess&#039;s 626 account offers unshaped bandwidth at an unbeatable price, but how does it perform in WoW?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}