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   Moving to a small rural town, no cable available.  Best I can do a a 3G Sprint card for computers or satelitte.  Understand satelitte will not handle games and has use restrictions, anyone have 3G and can you game on it, Sprint says can, but going from 54Mbps now to 1.5-3Mbps I have doubts.

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oldsoldier Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Crazy old guy Joined: 10 June 2002 Status: Offline Points: 6725	Post Options Post Reply Quote oldsoldier Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Question for You techies Posted: 06 December 2010 at 10:30pm
	Moving to a small rural town, no cable available. Best I can do a a 3G Sprint card for computers or satelitte. Understand satelitte will not handle games and has use restrictions, anyone have 3G and can you game on it, Sprint says can, but going from 54Mbps now to 1.5-3Mbps I have doubts.


Shub Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group I don’t have one either. Is that good??? Joined: 11 June 2002 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 6501	Post Options Post Reply Quote Shub Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 December 2010 at 10:35pm
	The biggest problem with online gaming isn't overall speed, gaming doesn't take as much bandwidth as you'd think. It's the latency, the delay in the signal. You could have high speed, but also high latency which wouldn't work at all for gaming (this is why satellite is generally unsuitable). A 3G connection could be just fine, or it could suck. Unfortunately, it's not a black and white issue. It depends a lot on how far you are from your tower and how much traffic your tower is handling at any point in time.

GroupB Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Gold Member Joined: 05 September 2010 Status: Offline Points: 1255	Post Options Post Reply Quote GroupB Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 07 December 2010 at 12:17am
	I doubt you get 54mbs now. The biggest thing with the 3G is what the speed for that area is. When I was in Germany, I had a Vodaphone 3G card for my laptop. It told me it had a 3G signal, but I was lucky to get about 14kbps on a good today.