Question for You techies
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Topic: Question for You techies
Posted By: oldsoldier
Subject: Question for You techies
Date Posted: 06 December 2010 at 10:30pm
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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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Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 06 December 2010 at 10:35pm
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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. |
Posted By: GroupB
Date Posted: 07 December 2010 at 12:17am
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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. ------------- 
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