Cell 3g/lte gaming

[DTBA]

Anybody here using cellc 3g or lte to game?



I would like to ask the guys with 3g a question if they have some time to spare

 

[Gtx Gaming]

I have use LTE on my mifi to game with.

Played overwatch had no lagg or any disconnects.

 

[DTBA]

Why I am asking this, It seems the last few weeks at around 19:30 I start getting bad packet-loss to eu, uk and us servers and around 23:00 it seems to go to back to normal.

Now I cant say its tower congestion as my download speeds are fine and local seems find as well

 

[Nikaidoboss]

I have exactly same behaviour @Midrand
Speeds stay perfect but latency and packetloss are beyond horrible.
I am even on 4G+ (LTE-A)

 

[DTBA]

I have exactly same behaviour @Midrand
Speeds stay perfect but latency and packetloss are beyond horrible.
I am even on 4G+ (LTE-A)

Yea I have a friend at boksburg with LTE same story speeds are find but Packetloss is bad

 

[Mity]

I have exactly same behaviour @Midrand
Speeds stay perfect but latency and packetloss are beyond horrible.
I am even on 4G+ (LTE-A)

I get the same problem in Midrand -
Summerset as well. Normally around 19:00-21:00 I will have multiple disconnects from gaming servers (BF1,Starcraft). On cell c giga 200 with full LTE signal, B315 router.

 

[DTBA]

I get the same problem in Midrand -
Summerset as well. Normally around 19:00-21:00 I will have multiple disconnects from gaming servers (BF1,Starcraft). On cell c giga 200 with full LTE signal, B315 router.

If I get any update ill post here.

 

[Napalm]

I wonder what do the ISP's do.... they rollout LTE and LTE-A in different areas right.

Obviously if you have quite a few LTE users connecting to the same tower. Quite a few devices support LTE and LTE-A nowadays. (ranging from tablets to Laptops, Cellphones and obviously the Mifi devices and LTE Routers). Say 50-80 users connecting to one Tower (which is not a bad amount of users, a typical tower can probably do 300 to 400).

How do the ISP's calculate when to Upgrade the towers fibre or double up their capacity. Back in the day when you only had 3G and HSDPA it was a fairly easy task. Devices only consuming maybe a meg or 3, some might have pushed a 8mbit to 15mbit etc.

Now you have devices that when streaming 1080p video or even 4K video (or just plain burst speed uploads of WhatsApp pictures , videos and joke clips). LTE will have a much higher speed to contend with.

Wonder how and if they calculate that if their capacity reaches 70-80% (between 7pm and 6am, the time when everyone is normally home to download or surf or work on their stuff). Do they up it... or just wait until there's 300 complaints and the tower hits 90% for 95% of the time between 7pm and 6am)

 

[DTBA]

I wonder what do the ISP's do.... they rollout LTE and LTE-A in different areas right.

Obviously if you have quite a few LTE users connecting to the same tower. Quite a few devices support LTE and LTE-A nowadays. (ranging from tablets to Laptops, Cellphones and obviously the Mifi devices and LTE Routers). Say 50-80 users connecting to one Tower (which is not a bad amount of users, a typical tower can probably do 300 to 400).

How do the ISP's calculate when to Upgrade the towers fibre or double up their capacity. Back in the day when you only had 3G and HSDPA it was a fairly easy task. Devices only consuming maybe a meg or 3, some might have pushed a 8mbit to 15mbit etc.

Now you have devices that when streaming 1080p video or even 4K video (or just plain burst speed uploads of WhatsApp pictures , videos and joke clips). LTE will have a much higher speed to contend with.

Wonder how and if they calculate that if their capacity reaches 70-80% (between 7pm and 6am, the time when everyone is normally home to download or surf or work on their stuff). Do they up it... or just wait until there's 300 complaints and the tower hits 90% for 95% of the time between 7pm and 6am)

I wonder that as well but like some say the speeds are fine but then they start to get packet loss. The sad part of it nobody will man UP to tell us how theses things work. Not that are force to but it may help us understand better.

 

[Napalm]

When you start getting packet loss. That's when you must know.... there is one of 2 issues.

1.Either your connection to the tower is crap (meaning a signal issue from your Antenna or router to the tower or weather issues)
2. Capacity Issues. This would mean your connection to tower is perfect but... there simply isn't enough bandwidth to go around so that your connection stays smooth and constant. <someone or many people are then klapping the torrents or streaming like crazy>

 

[DTBA]

When you start getting packet loss. That's when you must know.... there is one of 2 issues.

1.Either your connection to the tower is crap (meaning a signal issue from your Antenna or router to the tower or weather issues)
2. Capacity Issues. This would mean your connection to tower is perfect but... there simply isn't enough bandwidth to go around so that your connection stays smooth and constant. <someone or many people are then klapping the torrents or streaming like crazy>

Well the 2nd one I don't agree with 100% as I have seen where you can have download of 10mpbs on 3g but packet-loss. and 1mpbs download with 0 packet loss

 

[Napalm]

i'm guessing it could also be their QOS that might be messed up. QoS should allow stable connection limiting downloads (if someone is doing some crazy stuff) and still keeping all the other users happy on the same tower. Meaning latency's low , no packet loss and giving sufficient throughput. <-- Idea is to share bandwidth evenly... not 10 users downloading at 70mbit each and the rest getting 1mbit or 2mbit.