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Well Minnick
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Posted - 2008.01.14 21:46:00 -
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As anyone attempted to use a wireless data card/service like verizon/at&t or the like to play eve? I travel alot and was wondering how stable the connection is or if you can even get one?
Thanks.
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Gilgamoth
Imperium Technologies
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Posted - 2008.01.14 21:55:00 -
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I have an old Vodafone 3G data card which is capable of 384k. I can log in fine and change skills, but I wouldn't like to try much more. The new Vodafone ones are about a 2Mb connection, which I hope to upgrade to in the near future.
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Gil
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Thargat
Caldari
North Star Networks
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.01.15 15:41:00 -
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I travel ALOT and sadly not all countries have a developed broadband infrastructure.
So sometimes I use datacards to play eve. If you have good 3G coverage (preferably EDGE)you can get enough bandwith to play eve (though I don't recommend PvP). If you are in an area with HSDPA coverage (called Turbo 3G by the vendors and are pushed in most large cities in europe) you can even do POS battle on a good day (done it a couple of times with fair result). I know the states to be a bit more dodgy when it comes to 3G services and HSDPA coverage is all but nil afaik.
It's possible to log in and change skills with 2G gprs but nothing else.
so...
2G GPRS = Skills change possible
3G r99 (common 3G) = Minor trade and non too serious bussiness.
3G HSDPA (turbo 3G) = Eve runs decent enough to be able to PvP.
(all of the above is tested with good signalstrength)
One of the problems with mobile wireless solutions (2g, 3g, hsdpa and wimax) is that the throughput is a bit intermittent. Any second your BW might shrink to absolute 0 for several seconds, this is mostly due to datatraffic being downgraded in favor of regular voicecalls, true for some networks.
The other issue is latency (or really the roundtriptime) wich usually are in the ranges between 300-500 ms on most cell phone networks (slighly lower for HSDPA) and that somehow creates problems in the interaction between the the client and ccps servers.
To get back on topic... yes it works if you have a good 3g connection and I personally use it often.
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zoolkhan
Minmatar
Brutor tribe
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Posted - 2008.01.15 15:46:00 -
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i did pos sieges via gprs
wireless play is well possible, the bottleneck is client cpu and server i/o
the WAN bandwidht requirements are really moderate.
i travel a lot too, no issues on hotel networks and phonemodem
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Thargat
Caldari
North Star Networks
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.01.16 08:57:00 -
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 Originally by: zoolkhan
the WAN bandwidht requirements are really moderate.
Bandwidths are not high that's true. But the inability of current cellphone networks to deliver a stable throughput and the high latency (compared to a good broadband) means that you might experience issues with the client (desync seems to be more common on wireless but maybe that's just me deluding myself).
A one hour POSsiege i did recently resulted in a total of 8mb data received and 4mb data sent at the session end (maybe more like an hour and a half), it wasn't too much yabbering on TS at that time though (wich I recon could affect the total a bit).
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