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Q'aroth
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Posted - 2005.10.12 17:52:00 -
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For reasons I'm not willing to indulge myself in right now I haven't been able to get a decent, landline-based ADSL connection in my flat. Now, I've exhausted my gf's patience quite enough with leeching from her line, and recently stumbled across an interestingly sounding offer from one of the major mobile phone companies.
Internet via UMTS. A saviour? Can one actually "play" EVE with that? Or is it a built-in lag fest? Please enlighten me.
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Q'aroth
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Posted - 2005.10.14 07:06:00 -
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Does nobody know anything about this? Not even in theory?
Dang. 
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Expert Newbie
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Posted - 2005.10.15 22:29:00 -
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You might want to mention what UMTS is instead of abbreviating it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMTS
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Q'aroth
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Posted - 2005.10.16 14:39:00 -
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I was hoping people who know it could give me some notes about first-hand experience.
Thanks for pointing out that knowledge about UMTS is not as common as I thought.
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Xerxes X
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Posted - 2005.10.17 03:06:00 -
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Before selecting a 3G network operator, it would be advisable to check whether or not their network gateway would allow or block traffic to external systems (e.g. Eve servers).
I know that 3 (UK 3G Operator) announced that they are planning to open up their network to external traffic. Not sure whether this has been implemented yet.
Xerxes X
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Ander
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Posted - 2005.10.19 17:51:00 -
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3G works by TDM (time division multiplexing) I believe, meaning that data-streams are assigned per free slots
Simplification
10 slots
Best case scenario:
|free | free | free |free | free | free | free | free | free | free |
means you'll be able to use all slots for data.
But in worst case most slots will be taken by phone-traffic and you get very low bandwidth.
|phone |phone |phone |phone |phone |phone |phone |phone | phone |data |
Since phone gets higher priority than data it depends on that there arent too many callers in the area you're in.
Now to another issue, and that's the fact 3G seems to "burst" data due to the traffic pattern.
You may get very high response-times like 300-500ms or more! Or pingtimes going from 250ms up to 1000ms down to 250 and up again.
Which isnt ideal for online gaming. Though browsing websites and alike will most likely work fine, if not even just splendid.
Transfering data will be so-so but where you realy on low ping-times you'll get in trouble.
These are my own observations from a lab envoirment at university.
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Baral'heia
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Posted - 2005.11.01 22:49:00 -
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I don't know all that much about W-CDMA... but I was under the impression that with some cellular network technologies (GSM & CDMA), data had priority over voice. A few friends of mine (in the past) have actually been told by their wireless carriers to make fewer or stop making data calls as it's eating too much of their bandwidth for voice.
As for internet via UMTS, I dunno. It's possible, but I've never tried it myself.
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Digiball
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Posted - 2005.11.02 10:51:00 -
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I've done some skill changes and things in an emergency using the South African 3G offering from Vodafone. I haven't tried anything fancy like un-docking. Best would be to find someone with one of those connections and try it out.
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singh
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Posted - 2005.11.11 01:49:00 -
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I use the Cingular Edge network in Oklahoma, with a Sony Ericson PCcard... I do leave the station, but never leave empire, the connection is simply to slow and unreliable. Real life speeds around here of 20 - 30 kps. Due to both costs and speed, if I didn't need the card for road warrior type work, I'd never even consider it. On the other hand, I play eve for hours each night over my WildBlue satellite uplink and find it quite acceptable. Look to your satellite internet options. |
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