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« on: April 22, 2006, 07:42:57 PM »
Im thinking of getting this card for the rural area im moving to. How do you think this thing will handle to play video games? (CS:Source, other FPS's...)
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« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2006, 07:59:33 PM »
post a link to specs. do you have to use that card or is there a choice?
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« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2006, 08:38:58 PM »
Here is link to its specs: http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/phonedetailpopup.jsp?item=planFirst&phoneId=1821

If i get this, i would prob end up getting one of those PCI cards for my desktop PC to use this type of card. I had one a few years back wit ha wireless card i had for my network.
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« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2006, 07:03:49 AM »
i get an improving our site to serve you better on that link. if you are going to shove it into a pci pcmcia adapter you will more than likely /have/ to have an external antenna, since the pc will pretty much shield/interfere with the cards signal.
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« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2006, 07:15:55 AM »
Wouldn't the pings be slow because the signal is traveling so far?
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« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2006, 08:03:16 AM »
I would think so
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« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2006, 08:20:31 AM »
the signal travels from the card to the tower via the concentrator to the backbone. usually not longer or shorter (on average) than a wired connection.

latency increases are possible due to packet retransmissions because of poor signal/interference.

compared to pointing a dish at the heavens and praying the signal bounces off the moon to reach d-way or wildblue the latency will be low as hell.
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« Reply #7 on: April 23, 2006, 09:40:14 AM »
I will get an external antenna if i can find one.

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/mobileoptions/broadband/index.jsp
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« Reply #8 on: April 23, 2006, 10:14:02 AM »
hey drquack, do you know what technology they are using in your area?
i.e: EVDO, 1xRTT, etc..

That makes a difference on my Sprint wireless service I have on my work laptop.
In EVDO areas (typically in or near the city limits) I get around 250-300ms latency.
In 1xRTT areas (typically rural around here) I get up to an 800ms ping time.

edit:   just fired up the notebook and pinged a gateway and today I am getting a 175-250ms (avg 228ms) ping time. Not bad. It is in EVDO mode, btw.
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« Reply #9 on: April 23, 2006, 10:39:53 AM »
Now I forced it to 1xRTT mode and here are the stats for 100 ping requests:

minimum = 336ms, maximum = 998ms, average = 507ms

Mare than double the echo time than EVDO mode.

Now, this is Sprint and not Verizon, but hopefully this gives you some info to go on.

Here is a speedtest comparison:

1xRTT: 105 Kbps or 0.11 Mbps (13kB/s) using 384k test  (ouch)

EVDO: 551 Kbps or 0.55 Mbps (67kB/s) using 579k test.

Speeds obviously vary, I have seen days where I get over 1Mbps easily.
But the EVDO service is decent, the 1xRTT is pretty much excruciatingly aggravating.

Hope this helps.
 
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« Reply #10 on: April 23, 2006, 12:06:24 PM »
No, i dont know what technology they are using  cry
Thanks for the info man, have you ever tried to play games on that card?
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« Reply #11 on: April 23, 2006, 02:04:15 PM »
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you sure they cover your place? if you are so far out in the sticks you can't get cable/dsl or isdn...
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« Reply #12 on: April 23, 2006, 03:17:01 PM »
one of my soon to be neighbors has it. he gets a pretty solid connection. lives about 50 yards away from where my house is
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« Reply #13 on: April 23, 2006, 03:50:04 PM »
then have him test speed here, have him ping and tracert and pathping for you to check out the latency.
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« Reply #14 on: April 23, 2006, 06:12:15 PM »
Quote from: drquack11223 on April 23, 2006, 12:06:24 PM
No, i dont know what technology they are using  cry
Thanks for the info man, have you ever tried to play games on that card?

I have not ever tried gaming on the wireless PC since it is my work PC.
I am curious about the results, if I try a little gaming on it, I will let you know.
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