EVDO and Gaming

slug · EVDO User Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 46

I have sprint evdo and play world of warcraft and emeny territory with no problems. Ping times in wow are anywhere from 400-600 depending on how crowded it is I assume. Pings times for emeny territory run around 200-230 and to my surprise is very much playable, I've had no problems as of yet.

siryak · EVDO User Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 51

Semi75 · EVDO Junkie Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 240

The upload will depend on location but generally I get 80-110k virtually everywhere I've tested 1xRTT. At times the upload actually is higher than the download for me on 1xRTT. I can't see 380-480 ms pings being all that playable w/ 1xRTT unless it is a turned base game but if you said it worked w/ 600ms pings then who am I to judge.

siryak · EVDO User Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 51

npaler01 · Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:39 pm Post subject:

I play WoW on my EVDO and works great. Avg latency is 145ms which is pretty much what I get when I'm at home plugged into my roadrunner cable modem.

Specs:
Pantech PX-500 Aircard, no booster (usually 80-90 dB)
Dell 1.86MHz duo with 1GB RAM running Windows XP SP2
nVidia 256MB card (dunno chipset)

gbateman · EVDO Newbie Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 6

My game these days is City of Heroes. I don't have ping numbers for it but overall I'm not noticing a difference in gameplay feel compared to the cable modem connection I had been using. I plan to test drive it for a couple more weeks but at this point it looks like I can safely ditch my cable modem in favor of EVDO and still have reliable gaming.

My setup is a merlin S720 card plugged into the linksys WRT54G3G-ST router and I get a strong rev A signal with no external antenna. The connection has been rock solid for hours at a time and I haven't had a drop yet at all.

I did run into one snag that I saw mentioned in another thread somewhere in these forums. When I tried to play the game on my laptop (dell inspiron 5100) with the S720 plugged directly into the laptop, the sprint connection manager would disconnect 30 seconds or so after I logged into the game. Rock solid and fine the rest of the time but as soon as I logged in--poof. Setting up a windows dialup networking connection and using that to connect was a successful workaround to this problem.

tbhausen · EVDO Junkie Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 158

Have you tried NDIS rather than a Windows dialup connection? I'd be curious to know if that solves your disconnect issues with the card plugged directly into the laptop.

Todd/Indy

gbateman · EVDO Newbie Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 6

Yes, I did try NDIS and I still got dropped when trying to play the game while connected through sprint connection manager.

wanderingman · EVDO Newbie Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1

siryak · EVDO User Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 51

qso · EVDO Newbie Joined: 31 Mar 2009 Posts: 3

Helo,

Does anyone has ever experienced a difficulty in connecting to online game(RPG especially). This happens at a certain time everyday, which is around 8 pm until 12 midnight or something, beyond that it's quite normal(with speedy download and ping around 60-80 to game servers with not much of RTO of course). But once I got connected it's like normal hours.

What might be the problem? Is it because of high traffic ? NAT problem? Anyone got a clue? Because it seems the ISP provider does not have a slight idea. I know it is not because of the games I play locally, I have tested an international game, also does not work.

Thanks before, oh and, EVDO sucks for online gaming hehe Very Happy

especially in FPS gaming. For RPG it's quite fair with a little bit of delay. Stay away from wireless if you focus on gaming.

isamu · EVDO User Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 78

I've been playing CoD4 daily on a local LA server and it's not too bad. It will sometimes display laggy behavior though....like yesterday I was in a match and I was trying to snipe a guy hiding in the bushes. I crosshair was RIGHT on him and I fired several shots and he still didn't die! This happens a lot with sniper rifle weapons but for everything it's OK. Can't wait to see how good or bad the netcode is in MW2.