I'm curious, because i'm about to move in to a new place which has this service by Metrofon. So I'm wondering if I should go for their service or just stick back to streamyx

Any ideas what's the latency you guys get ?

zomg its you!

fibre optic lines bro! go for metrofon

the international link and backbone is still tmnut related and... theres still a long distance between US to msia.

that said, metrophone being well, not shitty like tmnut is still well worth the switch. ESPECIALLY local connections (eg: local seeds/peers on torrents) you'll be BLAZING fast with LAN-like connections (since its on LAN based fiber optic medium) speeds

Hey, wtf is this?



RM60 only ???
what's the catch ?

its not available everywhere.

Tmnut better buck up

got good competition is good
but metrofon available in too little place

too bad my apt no metrofon.

my place has metrofon.. and yes like someone stated it's the backbone that matters. I believe they're with NTT - so I'm not too sure how's the performance to WoW with them

I have BOTH TMnet and Metrofon at home.

Metrofon is decent for DLing, but I can actually get the equal speed on TMnet most times. However one thing which I dont like about metrofon is the fact that it's extremely slow to overseas site. Even SLOWER than TMnet, but locally it's extremely fast like what Quaza pointed out. The +point for Metrofon is that if you were to download on say BT, and if you're lucky enough to connect to another metrofon user seeding/simultaneously downling that file, then it is extremely fast, like LAN. However, that's not often.

-ve point for Metrofon is that it SUCKS for gaming, at least from my DotA view point. The latency to the host eventhough he is in malaysia is never faster than my TMNet connection. This is a big turn off.

Thus for the past couple of months, I've been just connecting to my TMnet provider and leaving Metrofon to rot.

Wow that's some very good information.

How about your connection to World of Warcraft?

How is it your connection to another malaysian is not fast though? I believe they have peering with TMnet and other major providers in malaysia.

A lot of people say it sucks for gaming - but what I'm interested to know is, the 'gaming' these people are talking about, do they connect to overseas server, or local gaming?

It makes sense overseas gaming sucks, as they already mention overseas surfing/connectivity is bad.. but locally is bad as well?

I'm slowly..thinking..about going back to TMnet

theres no local WoW server, what you think then?

upgraded my laptop. FPS went up, latency no diff but surprisingly more stable. makes me wonder if FPS causes stability issues.

yes and no.

eg:
if your fps is low due to lacking rams or processor power (single core especially), it will cause the entire system to be slow and yes that will also drag down resources provided to your networking components such as your network card hardware, TCPIP/NAT/DNS services/protocols etc.
and that is enough to drag down network stability/give out heavier latency.

Good point. Guess I was just being hopeful
Back to streamyx I guess.. oh well.

most of the time i lag in raids is due to fps lag not line....sad to say my laptop is in compitent

if use laptop play wow .buy the one got dedicated graphic memory . atleast 2gb ram . and say no to vista

This post has been edited by nagflar: Jun 28 2008, 06:43 PM

i have vista amd ill say no to xp anyday

my old laptop was a dell xps 1310. 2 gb ram and i think it was a go 7300s. intel process T5600, 1.8 GHz, 2 MB cache, 667 Mhz. bought it when vista first came out. often got the blue screen but after the burn in period, seems more stable. 12.1" Widescreen XGA display with truelife 1280x800 res. windows rating 3.0.

new laptop is a dell xps 1530. 3gb ram, go 8400M GT. processor is Intel T8300 2.40 GHz, 3 MB Cache 800 Mhz. 15.4" ultrasharp widescreen WSXGA 1680x1050 TFT Display with Truelife. Also using Vista. windows rating 5.0

Latency was same for both laptops but FPS went up by 20-50, depending on the area. DPS in raids shot up as well but hard to tell how big the increase was as I also upgrade quite a lot of gear as well.

Another I'm not sure but I suspect things are also more stable with Streamyx compared to the beginning of the year. This is pure speculation on my part but then again, we all have our streamyx conspiracies, no?

the upgrade's pretty obvious. if ur running vista + WoW, your ram usage will be around 2gb or at least very close to it, and that will result in a lot of HDD swappings and notebook hdd's are 2k RPM slower than desktop counterparts, and even on desktops, rams goin HDD vram swapping = HUGE performance drop.
the 1 more gb on ur new laptop would give it enough buffer to avoid vrams.

then, theres 1 generation upgrade from geforce 7 > 8. if anyone is familiar with lowend cards (geforce 7 comes to mind, and yes i do have a spare geforce 7200 GS, due to my old GTX RMA), running vista, or aero in particular(which isnt exactly high end graphics) will lag the shit outta you. needless to say, to a full 3D game over a windows interface, it will be worse. the 8 series, even though lowend ones, would still be a lot more decent than an old 7 series.

processor, which is also a crucial component in WoW, especially those that raid/pve a lot, and runs on a good list of UI addons with meters and what not, will be soaking up a lot of processor power. and the upgrade of 600mhz with 1 more mb cache with faster FSB speed is a HUGE upgrade over the old laptop.

For those wondering whats the catch with the RM60 ..well u have to pay heaps upfront deposit/equipment fees and you might have to sign a pretty long contract.

Anyway I have been using Metrofon for the past almost 1 year now and I can say initially it was pretty awesome for WoW. Very stable connection of 400ms and when you couple it with tunnel it could go as low as 200ms. However recently (some submarine cable thingie issue) it has gone downthe drain. Very very bad even with tunnel and TMNET (no tunnel serious) beats it flat. However surfing and torrent is good. I made a complaint and its still not resolved. Pretty disappointed and thinking of cancelling the subscription.

I wish Malaysia ISP would pay more attention to gamers... cos its more frustrating to face a lag during gameplay then .. surfing at a slower speed. Which is why we have so many forum posts about searching for the holy grail...an ISP that doesnt suck for gaming.

I am wondering if any Metrofon gamers out there playing Wow is facing teh same issue as I am? Like 1500ms Lag and multiple spikes till disconenction?

This post has been edited by kevy: Apr 25 2009, 08:19 AM

METROFON sucks big time now. Please do not even think about it. Suffering here...

poor support, engineer only available 9to5 office hours

but i prefer them over streamyx

my ping is 190-250 pj area. playing in thau oceanic. but when go greymane US ping becomes 300