Re: Orange/Mauritius is unsuitable for gamers

From: Loganaden Velvindron <logan_at_afrinic.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 10:32:02 +0400


On 7/31/16 2:41 PM, S Moonesamy wrote:
> Hi Logan,
> At 02:32 31-07-2016, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
>> After Orange started handing out 100 Mbit/s to their customers at a
>> fairly high price, we still don't qualify for online gaming.
>
[Speaking in my own capacity]
> Are you still a member of the ICT Advisory Council? If so, did you
> provide any advice about the price which consumers have to pay for
> internet access? Has there been any decrease in price for the
> internet package which you are currently using?
>
Yes. I have argued for better pricing of mobile internet in Mauritius.

No, there hasn't been any decrease yet.

I can point out that Free.fr is offering 50GB data for approximately Rs
600. I have to pay Rs 1400 for 10GB.


>> The maxium ping requirement for gaming according to sourceforge is
>> 100ms:
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/speedtest/
>>
>> I don't quality as I'm getting 287ms as latency, even under stress.
>>
>> Now that we have 100Mbit/s, shouldn't Orange focus on improving the
>> routing to give us 100ms latency to US ?
>
> The site which you mentioned is not related to gaming. I suggest
> citing better sources if you are providing facts about latency for
> gaming. I don't think that it is currently possible to get 100 ms
> latency to the U.S.

I'm getting between 120-200ms through MTML to the US. For a 3g
connection, this is actually quite good.

> Before asking for something which is not technically feasible, it is
> worthwhile to consider that a quick analysis would show that it is not
> doable. The latency to the edge of the Mauritius Telecom network is
> currently 3.56 ms. There was the following comment from (if I am not
> mistaken) Vincent in a blog article about freelancing: "A l’île
> Maurice, l’accès à internet est particulièrement aléatoire et peut
> être une grande source de stress". There isn't any data to show that
> internet access in Mauritius is of low quality.
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
Received on Fri Aug 19 2016 - 06:32:30 PST

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