Telkom Gaming

<p>Been with Telkom for roughly a year and a half now. I've generally had good service to be honest and the service (4mbps uncapped) was good as well.</p> <p> </p> <p>However, as of the beginning of February the latency has been insanely high although the download and upload remained the same. I am an avid online gamer and now it is just not possible with this ********** ping. A technician came and found nothing wrong and back to usual high latency we went again.</p> <p> </p> <p>Found out later that I am being switched over onto 'interleaving' with the ASSIA system Telkom implemented and thus from now on instead of going from point A to B directly, I am being taken elsewhere first then to point B. The roundtrip is apparently there to make all users' experience more smooth and iron out problems quicker.</p> <p> </p> <p>Meanwhile, if you game online you are basically *****ed.</p> <p> </p> <p>My complaint: Why is there no option with this company to select packages specifically for gaming firstly, and why am I not being given a chance to choose whether or not I want to be on Fastpath or this interleaving thing? It is really tideous and essentially I can't do what I am paying Telkom for.</p> <p> </p> <p>Utterly disappointed and I'm cancelling my month-tomonth contract with them. Quid pro quo am I right? You don't get to take my money when you give me more than 150ms local and in excess of 350ms to London I'm sorry.</p>