StingerMoD
join:2002-10-16
Calgary, AB
| reply to mlerner
Re: Rogers Portable Calgary Review
I'm house sitting for my aunt and uncle who have this service and man I hate it for what I do. The latency just sucks. I tried to join a popular Calgary COD4 server and had a ping of 400+ constantly. I can't wait to go home saturday to my shaw hi speed. |
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killjoy9994
join:2004-09-22
93939
| Yes, location would be key, but we always have 'five bars' on the modem.
Also I've noticed that it's dropping the connection more frequently now (several times a week) and quite often service is out for several hours. The modem always needs to be reset as it won't recover gracefully.
As to gaming, older low-bandwidth games work *okay*. Wolf Enemy Territory and Battlefield 1942 will allow you to connect to close servers and ping in the low 100's, although it's still somewhat sketchy.
I played CoD4 but I imagine it's a higher bandwidth game like Enemy Territory Quake Wars or Battle Field 2 which aren't worth playing.
Of course, this type of connection isn't designed for hi-speed gaming but is functional (if you don't mind the frequent outages) and are only using it for basic web surfing and email. |
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