Does anyone use a 4G or 3G connection to play. Would it work?
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It ought to work fine 
Some people have played Elite on airplane internet
Some people have played Elite on airplane internet
This right here, I can verify personally from my experiences. Except I have to do it from a laptop that has a LTE connection
Still beats dirty, dirty hotel wifi.
4G latency varies depending on traffic to the particular cell tower you're connected to as well and internet traffic to the servers you're connecting to.
In my experience, 80-90ms latency is typical, though it could go as low as 50(ish) at times. Depends on time of day, other users in the area, distance to the tower, weather, etc.
It would probably be fine for solo play but with other players you may notice lag or rubber-banding.
In my experience, 80-90ms latency is typical, though it could go as low as 50(ish) at times. Depends on time of day, other users in the area, distance to the tower, weather, etc.
It would probably be fine for solo play but with other players you may notice lag or rubber-banding.
I use 4g with a mobile broadband hub when on the road - usuually get around a 20mb connection - It's on the 3 network (through carphone warehouse) - works better than most ADSL broadband (I have 200 mb cable at home). I hear good things about O2 network as well (cheapest via Tesco). Avoid EE (my employer uses them and I have worked with them in the past) - very poor.
Avoid anything to do with Bt at all times and in all circumstances.
Avoid anything to do with Bt at all times and in all circumstances.
Brett C
Frontier
Yes, you can play ED via a 3g/4g hotspot/puck.
Problems arise when one or more of these issues persist...
1) Your distance from the cell tower.
2) What provider your hotspot is (TMobile, Verizon, etc).
3) QOS, rate limiting, etc. Band jumping (Band 4 to Band 26 etc) can cause lag , disconnects.
4) How crowded the cell site is. Cell tower overload -> Extremely high latency.
5) Cell sites backhaul overall. The cell tower might have four providers on it, but the backhaul providing the bandwidth may not be enough for all four providers to utilize (This is rare, but it does happen).
Problems arise when one or more of these issues persist...
1) Your distance from the cell tower.
2) What provider your hotspot is (TMobile, Verizon, etc).
3) QOS, rate limiting, etc. Band jumping (Band 4 to Band 26 etc) can cause lag , disconnects.
4) How crowded the cell site is. Cell tower overload -> Extremely high latency.
5) Cell sites backhaul overall. The cell tower might have four providers on it, but the backhaul providing the bandwidth may not be enough for all four providers to utilize (This is rare, but it does happen).
you could
i played 4 years with a 3G dongle (2mb speed) I made:
- Age of conan endgame raid + global progression
- Eve online HL pvp
- SWTOR (beurk..)
- Mankind (close)
- Elite : Beta and my half time game.
In my case, connection was good but in prime time ( end day workers, at 6pm - 8pm ) it s a bit sad. the worth was TS/Mumble because my upload speed wasn t excellent. So when you speak, it could hash a bit
We was with 2 computer on this dongle ( shared connection) and my wife was on diablo 3 in the same time....
So yes you could play with 3G
i played 4 years with a 3G dongle (2mb speed) I made:
- Age of conan endgame raid + global progression
- Eve online HL pvp
- SWTOR (beurk..)
- Mankind (close)
- Elite : Beta and my half time game.
In my case, connection was good but in prime time ( end day workers, at 6pm - 8pm ) it s a bit sad. the worth was TS/Mumble because my upload speed wasn t excellent. So when you speak, it could hash a bit
We was with 2 computer on this dongle ( shared connection) and my wife was on diablo 3 in the same time....
So yes you could play with 3G
afaik it would work even with H/H+(HSPU)
afraid about disconnects thou
we even had a chill in private
Nice meet\meat.
afraid about disconnects thou
Hey, I know you're russian from eve-ru.com
we even had a chill in private Nice meet\meat.
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I will cast another "Yes you can" vote for the 4G internet thing. My home internet is 4G LTE from a purpose-built tower among other purpose built towers in the region. They are NOT cell service towers as this service is part of the Broadband initiative that was implemented some years back by the US Congress so country folk could get high(er) speed internet.
Out here it's either satellite or this.....http://bigrivercom.com/internet/
It's actually more reliable than satellite, which I had before and played ED on, and faster too.
Oh, and I play in open nearly exclusively so it works there too.
Out here it's either satellite or this.....http://bigrivercom.com/internet/
It's actually more reliable than satellite, which I had before and played ED on, and faster too.
Oh, and I play in open nearly exclusively so it works there too.
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Hello OP - When Virgin media accidentally cut their power to their cabinet where I lived, I resorted to using my 3G Three mobile ...... with 1 bar of signal, so not a great or indeed reliable service.
I was able to play in solo and do text chats to me friends on-line. I like playing in open, but using the dongle did beat not playing.
Simon
I was able to play in solo and do text chats to me friends on-line. I like playing in open, but using the dongle did beat not playing.
Simon
Open uses a order of magnitude more data than Solo play. I checked when I was playing on a rubbish 3g connection with a very low signal strength. The game worked fine though.