World of Warcraft and Sprint USB U720 Latency / packet loss

bbourdet · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 16

Feight,

Is can you explain to me what you did to get this to work with pingfu? I am trying and cannot get it to work.

Thanks.

feight · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 25

first off, make sure you have the right tunneling program downloaded from www.artofping.com, it has the settings for WoW built right into it. If you need a winsocks utility it will tell you and provide a link for you to download that as well.

bbourdet · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 16

Do you have any problems with it connecting to the server when you use it? Mine keeps saying trying to authenticate.

feight · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 25

the authentication from within ping fu or in WoW. I never had any trouble after purchasing the program. Perhaps disable your firewalls? Follow Ping-Fu's instructions and that's really all you have to do.

bbourdet · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 16

Yup, I just needed to turn off my firewall, and restart. Now it works fine. I am able to stay between 300-450 latency at all times now, which is great! However I just wonder how much data it is using, as I have verizon, and I do not want to be cancelled.

feight · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 25

yay! glad to hear it. these games can add up to your total usage very quickly if you play alot.. but typically they don't use all that much. If Verizon gives you a website to check your usage.. i'd keep a watch on it. Keep in mind that Sprint is unlimited use when your contract is up.. if you signed one.

nschwen · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:57 pm Post subject:

WoW alone won't use a lot. I play 1-2 hours most nights, with the 4+ hour binges on the weekends. Wink

That plus any websurfing I and my wife do usually adds up to about 1GB for a month. The most I've seen is 2GB. I believe Verizon's limit is 5GB; so not an issue.

Curth79 · EVDO Newbie Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 9

I have this same exact problem with alltel as well.

My question is this, I just setup a VPN connection back to my office here, which works fine.

Connecting to Alltel, then connecting to my VPN, will all traffic then be routed through my VPN connection, therefore bypassing all of these problems?

Or do I need to search for a portforwarding/tunneling software like everyone is referring to?

feight · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 25

a vpn should bypass all your trouble, unless your isp at your office does some sort of traffic shaping as well.

Curth79 · EVDO Newbie Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 9

feight · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 25

Wildblue and gaming simply doesn't work too well. the latency is simply too high for most games. I too signed up for wild blue for a short amount of time, but found it useless for both work and play. Not to mention the 17 gig a month limit.

The wireless cell phone cards are simply a cut above the satellite internet systems (and cheaper). I tried everything I could to make wildblue a viable solution for me, but I failed.

I even purchased a home satellite aiming system, which worked.. but did nothing for my connection speed.

The largest problem I had was packet loss, even with a perfect signal. I believe when you experience a few seconds of packet loss, the gaming servers assume you have disconnected and you lose your session.

If you would like to test if you have the same problem, do this. Connect your vpn to your office and then ping your office server/computer by IP address. (ping 192.168.0.1 -t) the -t will make it a constant ping. Adjust your ip address to whatever your office is and wait. I imagine you'll soon see request timed out.

I found no way to fix this, but I do remember using a tunneling program on this system which helped slightly (but not to a degree that was acceptable).

Best of luck

feight · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 25

For the wireless card via vpn, (forgot you had that too, sorry). Getting wow to work over a vpn might be more complicated than just downloading a tunneling software.

You'll have to deal with port forwarding from your office firewall to your vpn ip address. Also, VPN encryption might add to your latency (not sure on that, just heard it does)

I would just download a tunneling program on trial access and see if it fixes it first.

But the harder route via vpn is fun to try as well! Google "vpn firewall ports for WoW" and you'll get the numbers you need to forward.

Curth79 · EVDO Newbie Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 9

feight · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 25

let me get this straight.. no EVDO at home just 1x only, wildblue as an alternate. VPN to a public ip machine.

Hmm... well i've tested my gameplay with 1xrtt and I couldn't move around.. my ping times hovered around 700-1000 on average with spikes to 5000.

You sound like me, 15 different internet connections and none of em work for what you want em for. The only option I see you having left is to try a tunneling program like Ping-Fu. It has a 2 day free trial I think, or it did just to test things out.

Your problem exists between you and the cell phone tower, then from the cell phone tower through their equipment, firewalls, etc. Your vpn still has to travel through all that, so no benefit connecting to all those T1s.

It would be nice if you could benefit from all those T1s, but impossible if your home connection is slow. Is there no option to upgrade from 1xrtt? Work really far away? i've a friend or two that have connected radio devices to their offices from home with amazing results (up to 15 miles) but those are pricey and require line of sight ($300-1000).

I think i'm out of options here. I can only suggest ping-fu at this point, and hope they bring EVDO to your area.

feight · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 16 Apr 2007 Posts: 25

Just thought i'd add a quick thought. Wireless connections show wonderful ping times, if there is no data traveling. When your are downloading, streaming data (that's when they fall to pieces).

I found my connection strength made a huge difference here. Try sitting your wireless adapter on a window or at least in the air a little. Just a thought, made a difference for me anyway.

Can always test this, start a download and then start pinging something