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<\/a>Battlefield 3<\/p><\/div>\n
MWEB Gaming<\/h3>\n
Mweb Online Gaming Manager Desmond Kurz said that in the last 6 months, the MWEB gaming server network served just over 320,000 Gigabytes (320TB) of data traffic, with a monthly average of about 53,500 Gigabytes (53.5TB).<\/p>\n
Over the last six months, the MWEB Cape Town gaming servers saw 114,120 Gigabytes of data traffic, whereas MWEB Johannesburg saw 205,940 Gigabytes of data traffic.<\/p>\n
“Our record month so far has been in December 2012, where the MWEB gaming servers had over 65,000 Gigabytes of data traffic,” said Kurz.<\/p>\n
“All gaming-related servers are counted in this data traffic, which includes content servers (Steam and GamersGate), the MWEB GameZone FTP site, as well as all of our gaming servers for the 50+ titles we host,” explained Kurz.<\/p>\n
“The MWEB Steam servers generated 205,400GB of data traffic over the period 1 August 2012 to 31 January 2013 and MWEB GamersGate over the same period generated 51,525GB of data traffic. That\u2019s a combined total of 256,925GB of data traffic from the MWEB content servers over that period, which tells us that digital distribution of gaming content is alive and well,” said Kurz.<\/p>\n
“At MWEB, we\u2019re very pleased to be able to provide local access to content of this quality for the South African gamers, who can now enjoy a wealth of digital gaming content at local download speeds. The MWEB GameZone team are always on the lookout for more opportunities to localise additional content for our gamers, thereby improving their gaming experience. We\u2019d especially like to offer more localised content for our console gamers, which is an ongoing drive for our MWEB GameZone team,” said Kurz.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Minecraft<\/p><\/div>\n
IS Gaming<\/h3>\n
Davin \u201cKradenko\u201d Hansen, gaming services manager at Internet Solutions, said that Internet Solutions only started measuring gaming-specific traffic in January. Hansen provided the following breakdown for January 2013:<\/p>\n
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- Gaming servers – 2TB per month.<\/li>\n
- Content server – 8TB per month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Hansen points out that although data has only been measured recently, they have observed \u201cseasonal\u201d spikes in gaming traffic. Noteworthy are school holidays and big online gaming sales\/game releases.<\/p>\n
Internet Solutions hosts all its gaming servers in Johannesburg, Hansen explained. “The IS connectivity between major metropolitan areas is extremely robust, and latency is not a problem. At this point, it has not been necessary to host POPs in CT,” said Hansen.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019ve been engaging with new suppliers, and have recently invested in new servers. As we work to improve the network as a whole, we feel the overall gaming experience on the IS network will be markedly improved,” said Hansen.<\/p>\n
Web Africa<\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/h3>\nWeb Africa said they do not log traffic details on the level of game files and gaming traffic. “Although we prioritise gaming traffic separately on our network to optimise performance we don\u2019t separate it on our usage logs so don\u2019t have this level of insight,” the company said.<\/p>\n
Web Africa was able to tell us that their Steam servers shift on average 15TB of data per month.<\/p>\n
SAIX Gaming did not respond by the time of publication<\/p>\n
More SA gaming broadband articles<\/h3>\n
Over 350TB SA gaming traffic per month <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
Afrihost unshapes their uncapped ADSL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n
Gaming on 40Mbps VDSL? Don\u2019t hold your breath<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n