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who uses a teresterial wireless isp to play mmorpgs?
highlands123
Member Posts: 9
I was just curios, becuase prior to getting teresterial wireless, I played with dialup (not even 56k, more like 30k), playing games like daoc, beta for swg, and wow. It worked, until sieges came or you were in town and their were people everywhere. Now I download the lotro free 10 day thing, and was able to create my character, but when I clicked the "enter middle earth" button it would just time out. Tracert timed out on dls.lotro.com as well (except the first hop to router, and last hop to the server). Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone has had similiar problems with teresterial wireless and the above situation. Is this going to be a common problem for all mmorpgs I play? That would really suck, as I was looking forward to TOR as well.
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Well this is what I'll give for info...
I live in Beaverton, OR (at the moment) and often enough I have issues with comcast dropping. We can't get Fios in here (property has a contract with comcast I guess) and the DSL department at Verizon... I'd rather go without ... long story I'll skip.
So I got Clear wireless as a backup... plus I could set it up in my back room without any issue.
I can play MMO's on it just fine. The only issue I do have is it can go days working just fine.. then on certain random days it will drop the conneciton quite a bit. Weather etc doesn't seem to be a factor.. I've called them three times and they were actually helpful (reviews for them were horrible... on average).
Who are you using for wireless?
When I first was hooked up I had some issues and it was something they actually fixed remotely. When its up and running (about as reliable as comcast (that may be funny if you live near here)) then speed etc is very nice.. I actually feel like I have a more consistent connection.
I have no idea where the closest tower to me is to be honest... If your signal strength is up and you aren't dropping signal... I would think based on what I've seen with Clear.. you should be fine. What you are describing sounds more like what I remember when I had a Sat Hybrid ISP for a bit in a very remote area... Have you called their tech support?
*edited to add*
I noticed you or a "same user name" posted on the lotro forums... with a bit more info. You said you time out on any url trace...
I'd go back to asking if you have contacted your wireless tech support? I had a similar issue that was only fixed with a remote reboot which the tech did very quickly (entire phone call was 3 minutes).
Hey Antarious,
Thanks for the reply and info. Ya that was me on the lotro forums as well. My isp is a local isp that happens to have a tower on top of Sandia Peak (10,600ft) just east of Albuquerque. I am on the east side of these mountains, and their tower was one of the few that I had los too. Ya i am getting time outs on any tracert I do, I just did a one for www.google.com, first hop to router (gateway) was less then 1ms, then 10 hops of timesout, until I get to googles ip at 74.125.19.104 on the 11th hop. I have no idea what thats about, that can even be a port forwarding issue right, since it is happing with tracert? I am running dd-wrt on my router, and might have it configured wrong for port forwarding, so if anyone is using dd-wrt for their router, a screen shot of how to configure port forwarding would be great.
I did email my isp, but they are closed on sat and sun, so will have to wait till monday (small isp like i said). I am really hoping that they know whats going on with these tracert timeouts, becuase no being able to play mmorpg's would really suck.
BTW, I heard proxy server can cuase issues, but with some of the test I did, i dont believe my isp is using one.
Wireless in general is bad for online gaming, worse than a 56k connection even.
Most MMOs require less bandwidth than web browsing, what is important is latency, the time it takes the data to travel from source to destination. Wireless networks in general have higher latency than wired as it is just slower for data to travel through the air than through cables.
I'm on a terrestrial wireless broadband connection. It's hit or miss. I'd say stick with a cable even if they're inconvenient, ugly, whatever. I don't have that luxury in my place but I really wish I did. The speed is alright, it's the problem of the connection suddenly dropping. It can be very frustrating at times and I have to reboot my modem often.
Back in EvE. Started with BatMUD. Main MMOs have been EvE and DAoC.
cable and dsl isnt an option for me either, just teresterial wireless or sattelite (which we all know really sucks). I really havent had any issues with losing connections or anything, this tracert issue is the first problem I have ran into. The last time I was really playing a mmorpg (WOW) i think i was still using dialup and hadnt gotten the wireless yet. Now I am just wondering if this is going to be a big issue with mmorpgs or not. Hopefully tech support at the isp will be able to fix this issue tomorrow (fingers crossed).
I don't know if this is exactly what you mean, but I play Eternum Online over wireless all the time. Those kind of games are perfectly suited for that kind of medium. However, I think if I tried to play something like WoW I'd be suffering from severe packet loss...
I used to subscribe to a terrestrial wireless service a few years ago and it wasn't that bad for pings, around 100ms average for most things. The one issue I would have sometimes is dropped packets but it was intermittent. Your problem sounds like your isp might have some wierd routing issue.
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