\u201cTelkom\u2019s Do-Gaming product offers a R49.00 per month add-on that gives customers unlimited gaming traffic to all the major gaming servers. The Do-Gaming add on also prioritises gaming traffic,\u201d said Telkom Internet.<\/p>\n This Do-Gaming product offers uncapped data usage to the PlayStation Network, Xbox Live, Battle.net, Steam, Origin, and do Gaming servers. This add-on will still run at full speed even when you are soft capped. Gaming downloads through Bit-torrent as a file sharing protocol are excluded from the do Gaming free data.<\/p>\n The add-on can be bolted to packages such as the “do Premium Plus (60GB cap at 10mbps)”, or the Telkom Internet uncapped offerings.<\/p>\n Telkom\u2019s recommendation: “<\/b>There are many variables to consider, such as how many hours are spent on gaming or whether games are downloaded, and so forth. However, serious gamers can average 70GB to 80GB with one purchased game per month,” said Telkom.<\/p>\n \u201cWhether you\u2019re on a capped or uncapped package, gaming is seen as a real-time service, so no matter what you are gaming you will see the best possible latency and given priority,\u201d said Afrihost.<\/p>\n \u201cAcross all our packages; Capped DSL, Business DSL, and Uncapped, gaming is given the same priority levels as streaming or browsing.\u201d<\/p>\n Afrihost\u2019s recommendation:<\/b> “Any of our packages are great for gamers. Mobile offerings are also becoming an option among some of our clients,” said Afrihost.<\/p>\n Afrihost recently dropped their pre-paid data prices<\/a>, which may attract clients looking for an unshaped line.<\/p>\n \u201c<\/b>We have a crew of gamers in the MWEB GameZone team that look after the interests of MWEB gamers,\u201d said MWEB’s\u00a0Desmond Kurz.<\/p>\n \u201cThis team is active on Facebook, e-mail, Twitter, as well as the MWEB GameZone forums and website so it\u2019s easy for customers to access this expertise.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cMWEB infrastructure provides for the hosting of over 280 game servers for more than 60 titles, including the first Dota 2 servers to be deployed in SA, and\u00a0the first \u00a0Battlefield 4 servers for PC in South Africa. That infrastructure also allows gamers to become their own administrators by renting servers from our partners, Gameservers and Multiplay.\u201d<\/p>\n MWEB said gaming traffic receives the highest priority on their network, and gaming traffic is constantly monitored to ensure\u00a0traffic prioritisation rules can be updated to be in sync with the gaming environment.<\/p>\n MWEB\u2019s <\/b>recommendation: “<\/b>Our 6mbps Uncapped ADSL product delivers real value. Many 10mbps lines do not sync at their full potential, so this allows gamers to get a 50% speed boost ahead of a 4mbps line,” said MWEB.<\/p>\n “We place special importance on gaming. After hours, all packages feature priority on gaming. During office hours, we have a specialist gaming package – Gamers King Uncapped – that allows for priority game play,” said Open Web’s CEO\u00a0Keoma Wright.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Gamers King Uncapped package offers uncapped, prioritised speed for gamers.<\/p>\n Open Web recommendation:<\/strong> “Currently, Gamers King Uncapped\u00a0is not available to new clients, as we limit quantities to ensure a premium experience for clients. However, a little birdie told me that perhaps later this month there might be a few more available,” said Wright.<\/p>\n \u201cPrioritising\u201d is just a nicer way of saying shaping. If one packet is treated differently from another packet you are shaping the traffic because in order to speed up a service you need to slow down another service,\u201d said Cyber Smart\u2019s Laurie Fialkov.<\/p>\n \u201cThe only protocols we prioritise above gaming are DNS, VOIP, and BGP, and this is consistent across all our uncapped services. Our capped services are not shaped at all so gaming has equal priority to everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n Cyber Smart\u2019s recommendation:<\/b>\u00a0Contention is more important than priority. So if you are a really hardcore gamer, a capped product will always be better for you as there is no chance of your game not being recognised. A very popular package with gamers is the 50Gig supersize capped product that gives a 50GB cap during normal time and a 1TB cap after hours.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Web Africa FreeZone offers gaming bandwidth used on the WAGE<\/a> game servers for free,\u201d said Web Africa\u2019s Jeremy Wilkinson.<\/p>\n WAGE is Web Africa\u2019s \u201cGaming Experience\u201d Tier 1 network.<\/p>\n \u201cGaming traffic has priority on our Home and Business Uncapped, and our Home Capped products, a very high priority on our Home Capped and Uncapped Pro packages, and top priority on Business Capped Pro.\u201d<\/p>\n Web Africa\u2019s recommendation:<\/strong> The Home 60GB anytime + 60GB night time, or the Business 40GB anytime + 40GB night time package.<\/p>\n Axxess failed to provide comment by the time of publication.<\/p>\n Can\u2019t play Titanfall? 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