Vodacom 3g good for WoW?

[diabolus]

isnt a wireless connection over a wide area network a bit dodgy for gaming ? Too unpredictable ?

Personally, I wouldnt bother

For twitch-action type of games, yes. However WoW is not Unreal Tournament/Counterstrike where a millisecond is the difference between a rocket in your face or dodging it. For MMOs, like WoW, most of the combat is actually more "autohit" and "statistics" and don't necessarily require "breakneck reactions" .

Sure there are a few things that needs very specific timing, but a 300ms-500ms ping is usually sufficient, and even then there's addons which compensates for your lag [giving an indication how much -earlier- you should start casting a spell etc].

Oh and i forgot to add my 3G raiding -included- being on Ventrillo/Teamspeak at the same time.

 

[JHatman]

Ok I've decided to go with Vodacom 384 ADSL with 5gig cap, think it should be fine for WoW?

 

[Cloudster]

if you bank with FNB you may want to consider visiting this website: https://www.fnbconnect.co.za/ ... they sell only unshaped data and you can "pre-pay" as many units as you'll need instead of being confined to a 5 gig cap or being forced to utilise the entire 5g cap a month ....

they're the cheapest seller of unshaped data if i'm not mistaken

 

[W124rd]

Needless to say that with all the cell network issues dong the round these days, and the instability of MTN HSDPA, I changed over to iBurst. Using the gamemax proxy I have a stable latency of 270-290. With the proxy on MTN I got about 400-600 and on Vodacom about 500-700. It was well worth the upgrade for me.

Raided Ulduar 25 with it, I did not experience 1 DC, or even 1 latency spike, this is one decision I will never regret.