gaming with my phone as a modem

danielscotbrown · EVDO Newbie Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 1

ive been using my razr with alltels tethering service for a few weeks now to play WoW. my lat is around 600 -800 and on occasion i get my ping as low as 200-300. im just curious why my lat is so unstable and if there is a way i can improve performance and possibly keep it stable around 300-400?

my signal strength stays around 90% but my download speed is so random everyday i dunno what the deal is. ive seen it as high as 1200 down to as low as 100 down, my upload speed seems to mirror this also.

here are my stats from netspeed.stanford.edu/ i really appreciate any help i can get.

WEB100 Enabled Statistics:
Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
checking for firewalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
running 10s outbound test (client-to-server [C2S]) . . . . . 60.0kb/s
running 10s inbound test (server-to-client [S2C]) . . . . . . 482.37kb/s

------ Client System Details ------
OS data: Name = Windows XP, Architecture = x86, Version = 5.1
Java data: Vendor = Sun Microsystems Inc., Version = 1.6.0_02

------ Web100 Detailed Analysis ------
Cable modem/DSL/T1 link found.
Link set to Full Duplex mode
No network congestion discovered.
Good network cable(s) found
Normal duplex operation found.

Web100 reports the Round trip time = 858.23 msec; the Packet size = 1460 Bytes; and
No packet loss was observed.
C2S throughput test: Packet queuing detected: 8.44%
S2C throughput test: Packet queuing detected: 96.67%
This connection is receiver limited 52.22% of the time.
Increasing the the client's receive buffer (64.0 KB) will improve performance
This connection is network limited 47.62% of the time.

Web100 reports TCP negotiated the optional Performance Settings to:
RFC 2018 Selective Acknowledgment: ON
RFC 896 Nagle Algorithm: ON
RFC 3168 Explicit Congestion Notification: OFF
RFC 1323 Time Stamping: OFF
RFC 1323 Window Scaling: ON

Server 'netspeed.stanford.edu' is probably behind a firewall. [Connection to the ephemeral port failed]
Client is not behind a firewall. [Connection to the ephemeral port was successful]
Information: Network Middlebox is modifying MSS variable
Server IP addresses are preserved End-to-End
Client IP addresses are preserved End-to-End