WoW on HSDPA?

[Deviant]

Hi there,

I currently play WoW on an iBurst connection, which works fine for the most part, except that the signal at my house is generally crap, even with an arial. I was thinking about converting to HSDPA if the signal is good enough where I live ... has anyone played WoW over HSDPA? Thoughts and comments?

 

[Deiphos]

Hmm, I wonder how much bandwidth WoW uses when you play, that should be a huge factor when choosing to move over. While the HSDPA service is fast and coverage is great, it is still expensive in the high volume (usage) area. So if you think that your WoW usage per month will be greater than 1gb then HSDPA is not for you.
HSDPA is for portability or for people who don't use that much bandwidth in a month.

 

[Veroland]

HSDPA being a wireless service one would expect much worse ping times than say unshaped ADSL. So there would be fair chance of experienceing lag in WoW I guess.

 

[grim]

I Play Guild Wars with a 3g connection, I experience no lag whatsoever and the bandwidth usage is very low, I'd say about 2Mb per hour.

 

[krycor]

My one friend use to say WoW uses about 1GB per month and he use to play ALOT.

 

[Deiphos]

Interesting, but I won't take chances, I already use too much data simply browsing and checking forums. Which is why I am upgrading to a 1gig account at the end of this month, I will see how much I use and then see how much online game will use.

 

[Beldun]

Hey all, I have upgraded to HSDPA today and find it quite fast. I will let you know how WoW goes. Getting it delivered tomorrow Can't wait

 

[Baron_Sengir]

meetoo

I got the card today and am getting the game tomorrow so ill let u know

 

[Deviant]

Thanks for the replies guys, look forward to the report backs.

WoW seems to use suprisingly little bandwidth, don't have exact figures though.

Latency is a problem on wireless services, but it WoW it's not too much of an issue, and there's always a nukecap VPN.

 

[Deiphos]

Well, HSDPA latency is supposed to be much better than that of 3G, so I would imagine if you got a good service on 3G, you will get a better one on HSDPA.

 

[Moo]

Just got HSDPA today (finally, but thats another story).

I play warcraft III online and with my old 3G connection I used to be able to play normally with a little lag spike kicking in now and then, nothing serious.

With my HSDPA howerver it is unplayable! I lag like you can't imagine and get disconnected from games. Normal browsing and stuff like that is noticabily faster, its just Warcraft. Any ideas???

If anyone is having similar problems or found a solution, please let me know

 

[vodacom3g]

Just got HSDPA today (finally, but thats another story).

I play warcraft III online and with my old 3G connection I used to be able to play normally with a little lag spike kicking in now and then, nothing serious.

With my HSDPA howerver it is unplayable! I lag like you can't imagine and get disconnected from games. Normal browsing and stuff like that is noticabily faster, its just Warcraft. Any ideas???

If anyone is having similar problems or found a solution, please let me know

Do a few throughput and latency tests and post the results.

 

[Baron_Sengir]

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Okay, so eventually I got everything i needed to be up and running!
Pretty impressed with the results.

Ping ingame ranges between 440 and 850.
Seems very playable.

Thanks for all the help guys!

I'm off to slay the world!

Cheers

 

[Moo]

V3G: Can you please tell me how to do that, sorry I'm not very good with the technical stuff.

Warcraft has a command where you can ping your latency. When I do that my ping is 160 (with 3g used to be about 200 - 240). Besides that test I don't know how to get my latency and throughput.

Browsing and email, etc.. is faster, It's just warcraft (I'm not sure of other games).

Thanks for the help

*Edit* O ye and also another thing, I was wondering about. I can't create games over the internet, can only join games other people have created (was like that with 3G aswell). Not a major issue but it would be nice. I know people with adsl routers that havn't opened certain ports have the same problem. Does the vodacom network block those ports or is it just that I have to open mine aswell somehow (Think its 6112-6119). Thnx

 

[vodacom3g]

Best way to test latency is to ping a local and international site, say www.google.com.

Throughput you can test from either http://speed.vodacom.co.za/test or the Telkom test on http://www.telkom.co.za/minisites/dsl/speed1.html

 

[Diago]

In regards to creating games, your on an open proxy and have a shared IP address when connecting via 3G/HSPDA. Unlike ADSL where you get your own IP your sharing one with any of the hundreds (I hope) 3G/GPRS users out there.

Frequent IRC'rs knows the problem when trying to get connected and getting kicked because some idiot caused hassle and was banned or because the server your connecting to doesn't allow multiple ip's.

I would assume the same applies to WoW, you cannot have anyone directly connecting to your machine, and I know there was a campaign at one stage to provide this service from Vodacom.

V3G: Can you please tell me how to do that, sorry I'm not very good with the technical stuff.

Warcraft has a command where you can ping your latency. When I do that my ping is 160 (with 3g used to be about 200 - 240). Besides that test I don't know how to get my latency and throughput.

Browsing and email, etc.. is faster, It's just warcraft (I'm not sure of other games).

Thanks for the help

*Edit* O ye and also another thing, I was wondering about. I can't create games over the internet, can only join games other people have created (was like that with 3G aswell). Not a major issue but it would be nice. I know people with adsl routers that havn't opened certain ports have the same problem. Does the vodacom network block those ports or is it just that I have to open mine aswell somehow (Think its 6112-6119). Thnx

 

[Moo]

OK, did some tests. here are the results:

Telkom speed test:
here

Pinging the local warcraft server a few times:
here

Pinging an international site, google.com:
here

I must say, since yesterday it has been alot better, I can actually play now. I does still seem that the connection spikes a lot where the other players have to wait for me and twice I didn't recover from it thus disconnecting me.

I posted the same question on the warcraft forum and one guy there told me that I have to ask you (V3G) to help me set up my HSDPA properply. I dunno if thats true but your help will be greatly appriciated.

Thanks a million guys.

 

[Beldun]

Upgrading to version 7 of the Vodafone software certainly seemed to help me. Finally reached speeds of up to 1.4 Mbps. It was a sweet thing to see!

 

[Moo]

I am using v7

 

[vodacom3g]

I posted the same question on the warcraft forum and one guy there told me that I have to ask you (V3G) to help me set up my HSDPA properply. I dunno if thats true but your help will be greatly appriciated./QUOTE]

Your results look quite good, throughput in excess of a Mb/s and local pings around 120ms.

I don't think there is anything you need to do, especially any 'tuning' that needs done.

Have a read through the 'speed vs. signal' sticky for ideas to improve your throughput.