Does anybody know why Octotel have such high latency, especially to Google services?
When I lived in Joburg, I was on Vumatel which was just lightning fast. All websites loaded fast and when I gamed online, my ping was 1ms.
Since I moved to the Cape, I have lived in two different areas, Strand and CT proper, with Octotel being the fibre provider at both locations. Since being on Octotel, my gaming ping has gone up to 20ms (which is perfectly fine but still a 20x increase) and I have noticed Google websites take longer to load, with Gmail being the main culprit.
On Vumatel a YouTube video would load immediately but on Octotel it usually takes a couple of seconds. Gmail loads immediately but usually takes a solid 10 seconds before it becomes responsive.
In both locations I used two different ISPs so it can't be an issue with the ISP. The issue has to be Octotel as they are the only constant. With the first ISP I had a 50/25mbps line and I now have a 100/100mbps line so bandwidth can't be the issue either.