wifi

[helbent]

Does anyone play via WiFi?  Is it possible to have a decent enough connection to be in a furball?

I'm on a 3g Droid incredible and thinking about the 2gb hotspot.

Any tips?

[DERK13]

i play via wifi and alot of people do. It all depends where you are in relation to the router and what kind of connection it has to the internet. If your a few houes down and picking wifi up, your prob guna get disconnected due to weak signal. If you have a strong signal and the router is in your house then you should be ok, but your computer has to be able to handle a game as big as aceshigh and the graphics and such.

[The Fugitive]

HB, the worst connection is Satellite closely followed by any other wireless connection. Some connections are better than others. When I was traveling for my company I could log in on MOST hotel wireless connection. As long as your computer is up to par, you should be ok. It won't be as good as a wired connection, but you should be able to get by as long as you don't worry too much about the occasional "hick-up". 

[guncrasher]

he's trying to get wifi from a cell phone.  why don't you try before you disconnect your land line, then n
tell us how crappy it does 

semp

[BigR]

Does anyone play via WiFi?  Is it possible to have a decent enough connection to be in a furball?

I'm on a 3g Droid incredible and thinking about the 2gb hotspot.

Any tips?

Wifi is fine as long as its connected to a real ISP like cable or DSL. Your phone's 3g connection will be terrible for gaming. Unplayable.

[MK-84]

Be carefull a capped data plan can mean some pretty nasty overage charges.

Sprint is the only carrier currently offering a "truly unlimited data plan"  the other carriers either charge overage fees like verizon and att, or your internet speeds get throttled back like with tmobile.

[Cheese]

Are you referring to a wifi hotspot?  Or wifi in your house?  Or wireless broadband?

I have Sprint 3G wireless broadband that feeds my home network.  Works great, very rarely have any lag issues.  However, once in house, I only play on the 'wired' computers, and not over the wireless.

[M0nkey_Man]

i love my high speed wireless internet

[The Fugitive]

he's trying to get wifi from a cell phone.  why don't you try before you disconnect your land line, then n
tell us how crappy it does 

semp

Again you put your foot into your mouth.

HB is a truck driver and is on the road. They don't make dial-up with a cable that long.

[1701E]

A tethered Droid will give fine connection to AH. I played like that with only 1x connection from 3G and got ~250ms ping with virtually no packet loss (impossible to not have any in this case) and I had no warping issues. Anything but AH would be virtually impossible.
I was using a Droid with Pdanet.

[guncrasher]

Again you put your foot into your mouth.

HB is a truck driver and is on the road. They don't make dial-up with a cable that long.

look at this quote from him.  

Does anyone play via WiFi?  Is it possible to have a decent enough connection to be in a furball?

I'm on a 3g Droid incredible and thinking about the 2gb hotspot.

Any tips?

he's asking for info about using 3g droid incredible as a hot spot, i have used my droidx to try to play, i couldnt get a decent connection to stay on for more than 20 seconds.  and I used a rooted droidx with an unthrottled hack.

as for him being a truck driver sorry I dont know everything about everybody like you do.  now go bug somebody else fugitive and stop putting your own foot in your mouth.

semp

[DREDIOCK]

This thread is probably going to be moved to the  Hardware & Software forums.

Where most people are going to tell you that a wired connection is better then a wireless one and one through your phone will be even worse.

[The Fugitive]

See Rule #4

[IrishOne]

HB!       <3

[TwinBoom]