Gaming with Cell C 3G: The Verdict

[Reiku_San]

Im on xbox live not psn.. was just wondering if gamers on other services were also having these problems.

 

[Red_ZA]

PSN is back up, played a few games oof FIFA 11 last night with no problems using the Cell C 2gb 7.2 modem..

Has anyone else played fifa online and checked the data usage for FIFA ?

 

[wolv]

Im on xbox live not psn.. was just wondering if gamers on other services were also having these problems.

I have the same problem with Call of Duty Black Ops

NAT type is set to strict.
Very fraustrating as i also bought the speedstick for online gaming

Cellc_guru please help if u can

 

[Cell_C]

I have the same problem with Call of Duty Black Ops

NAT type is set to strict.
Very fraustrating as i also bought the speedstick for online gaming

Cellc_guru please help if u can

Hi wolv

unfortunately verdict for now is that Cell C wont have an open APN for gaming.
Not to say we will never, but for the time being there are other pressing matters at hand.
But please be assured that we are looking in to it

Regards
~AM~

 

[knightfourtwo]

I have been getting atrocious speeds in the Douglasdale area... I usually get 50 to 70 ms ping, and 8 to 11 Mbps ... now I'm getting 150 to 300 ms ping and 0.05 to 0.5Mbps... there is no way this is going to work long term for gaming. It does not seem sustainable .

Sent from my HTC Desire using MyBroadband Android App

 

[Wolfy]

moral of the story .... wireless internet gaming = lag fest

 

[Pitbull]

CellC Gaming

Hi CellC,

Is it at all possible to look at a way of making gaming for us CellC users a little less costly?

Thinking of BF3 which is being played on Local servers. This streams at 68kbps which means it will eat 2.2GB worth of data in 10 hours. Please guys I'm going to need your help here or I'll have to make a plan to save costs. This might mean having to move to Telkom /shiver.

Any feedback would be appreciated. Maybe give us free local gaming or create a CellC gaming portal like with DoGaming or something.

 

[Pitbull]

CellC?

Are you asking me to move to another SP? Just curious...

 

[shovenose]

Off course you will have problems. Mobile broadband is not TCP/IP. I can't imagine the data usage it will much up because it has to send out more round trips to find a server. Then there's the ack packets they send out even when the connection is not completed.
Does it stay on Hspda or does it drop to 3G when the data is not coming constant? I know I had to make a ping batch ones just to keep it going back to 3G.

 

[Mr.CookieMonster]

I rate you get a 10MB Adsl Line from Telkom.

Then you get a big cap (50GB Cap) from Afrihost (It is unshapped). That should cost you about R1000 per month.

Alternately, if you want, you can get 4MB ADSL from Mweb (Uncapped ADSL + ADSL Line) for R899.

 

[morkhans]

Off course you will have problems. Mobile broadband is not TCP/IP. I can't imagine the data usage it will much up because it has to send out more round trips to find a server. Then there's the ack packets they send out even when the connection is not completed.
Does it stay on Hspda or does it drop to 3G when the data is not coming constant? I know I had to make a ping batch ones just to keep it going back to 3G.

Bwahahaha. You forgot to mention (bandwidth thieving) ARP proxies as well!