EVDO and Everquest

Polaro · Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2005 10:46 am Post subject: EVDO and Everquest

Not sure anyone cares, but I played Everquest the other night with my V620 on Verizon in Denver and it worked just fine. Zoning was a little slower than usual with a cable modem but not a problem. I played for a couple of hours without a hitch. I was able to run and keep up with people and even did ok in a raid with about 60 people. Everquest is not a real bandwidth pig, but I was worried about latency. The latency issues with EVDO did not really seem to be a problem with this game.

I did not test Everquest 2 since my laptop will not handle it.

I will test Warcraft III next week!

It does seem to me that Verizon's EVDO has been steadily getting more solid. There was a time where I almost gave up on it, but I have been content for some time now with performance and consistency.
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Kimper · EVDO Newbie Joined: 01 Oct 2005 Posts: 10

Thanks for posting about EQ. I should be able to post some World of Warcraft results soon.

smittyinky · EVDO User Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 26

I just don't want to miss your post. I have some friends across that are playing it, of course on cable or dsl, and all I have is verizon wireless, national access. I play Guild Wars without a problem, but that isn't quite the MMORPG that WOW is.

Thanks,
smittyinky at gmail dot com

Kimper · EVDO Newbie Joined: 01 Oct 2005 Posts: 10

World of Warcraft works great over Sprint EVDO in San Antonio, TX

In main world latency was green at 239ms

In a 40 man raid latency was yellow and was around 400ms.

Played just like I was at home on cable modem!

Kimper · EVDO Newbie Joined: 01 Oct 2005 Posts: 10

World of Warcraft works great over Sprint EVDO in San Antonio, TX

In main world latency was green at 239ms

In a 40 man raid latency was yellow and was around 400ms.

Played just like I was at home on cable modem!

sidva123 · EVDO Newbie Joined: 07 Oct 2005 Posts: 3

All I have national access (no EVDO in my area yet) and I don't have any problems playing WOW or Guild Wars. I do run into a bit of lag when going to the largest city in WOW but that's about it. I was quite surprised at how well it runs.

ypmaster649 · EVDO Newbie Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2

What realm are you guys on in WoW? I know that would play a huge factor in how it worked, as I am on Dalaran, it should probably work very well with it being a low population server.

mightbe · EVDO Newbie Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 1

I had a similar problem using the sprint connection software in WoW (the sprint software would lockup not allowing me to reconnect about every 2 minutes).

I've switched over to just using the windows network connection for the Sprint PCS Vision - Novatel Wireless and have not had a problem since. I'm guess that the amount of incoming packets from the WoW server causes the tracker in the Sprint software to choke and die.

Anyway, with a fair signal (at work), I'm getting an in game ping of 320-600ms (average ping of about 415 or so) on the Scarlet Crusade server. This is about 200ms or so less than the pings I experienced on the V620 Card with Verizon and about 100ms greater than what I get on my home cable connection here.

All in all, switching to sprint has been a win/win for me.

Semi75 · EVDO Junkie Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 230

The newer Sprint Connection managers have been killing all games forcing a disconnect. This is rather new as back in November and the first of December there wasn't a problem with disconnects while gaming but now everyone is reporting the same problem.

As far as this post............ dang people still play Evercrack? Shocked