Thinking of dumping the Cable

[gprimr1]

Now that both my room mate and I have air cards, I'm thinking of ditching the wired internet.

The big issue is that I really like Halo 3. Is 3G fast enough for Halo 3? I have a good signal at my home.

I do live in Baltimore too, so 4g is available as well.

[elephant007]

Originally Posted by gprimr1

Now that both my room mate and I have air cards, I'm thinking of ditching the wired internet.

The big issue is that I really like Halo 3. Is 3G fast enough for Halo 3? I have a good signal at my home.

I do live in Baltimore too, so 4g is available as well.

Depending on your area, WiMAX is roughly between the speeds of DSL and Cable. I have WiMAX in Abilene and get a speed anywhere from 5.3Mbps to 5.8Mbps, I think that would be plenty speed for your Halo3 gaming. Back in the day when I still had 56kbs modem, I would play Team Fortress Classic as a sniper and a very good one too, I was just laggier that most people I played against because they had DSL or some high-speed stuff (Dual ISDN hahahaha) I went by SpazZoid because that's how my character looked when I played.

The faster your speed the better, I would think 3G would be fine

[gprimr1]

I live in Parkville, right on the line between Parkville and Towson.

[sadthai]

hey which sprint device support 4g or wimax? and anywhere you can see the 4g/wimax coverage map?

[ksg]

1. ExpressCards and PCMCIA cards get fairly hot when in use for long times...

2. Data caps where unlimited really means only 5-8 GB (depending on carrier).

Just some things to think about.

The speed should be in-line from what you'd expect w/ a slower DSL connection; comparatively speaking. The latency is really what kills you (not the speed) w/ gaming. The latency will be better than satellite internet but nowhere as good as a 'wired' connection.

My suggestion is to try it out for a week or two before canceling your current broadband internet.

[gprimr1]

Yeah, I need to read the fine print. It says "unlimited 4g/5gb monthly on 3g" so we'll see what that means.

I was hoping someone had tried it, that celluar router isn't cheap.

[robsta]

As everyone said, just watch your data usage, you don't want an insane bill because you went over your "unlimited" cap.

I have personally played online with a 3G connection and it works fine. I've played World Of Warcraft, Xbox Live (Halo 2/3, Call of Duty: World at War, GRID), and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare PC online just fine with no lag, however the latency is higher than everyone else who is on a wired connection and your "bars" will suffer on online gaming because of it, but that never affected game play for me.

Don't use a cellular router, unless you want an "always on" connection, which you still could do without the router, but your computer would have to be kept on 24/7. Just hook your air card into your computer and then run an Ethernet cable from your computer into your Xbox, then bridge the connections. If you need more details let me know.

You can also get the HTC Wifi Tethering App (for your Touch Pro) and get an Xbox 360 Wifi Adapter, that works too.

On Sprint, I know the cap for phones is 5GB of data per month, don't really know about AirCards.

[broadwayblues]

Originally Posted by robsta

As everyone said, just watch your data usage, you don't want an insane bill because you went over your "unlimited" cap.

I have personally played online with a 3G connection and it works fine. I've played World Of Warcraft, Xbox Live (Halo 2/3, Call of Duty: World at War, GRID), and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare PC online just fine with no lag, however the latency is higher than everyone else who is on a wired connection and your "bars" will suffer on online gaming because of it, but that never affected game play for me.

Don't use a cellular router, unless you want an "always on" connection, which you still could do without the router, but your computer would have to be kept on 24/7. Just hook your air card into your computer and then run an Ethernet cable from your computer into your Xbox, then bridge the connections. If you need more details let me know.

You can also get the HTC Wifi Tethering App (for your Touch Pro) and get an Xbox 360 Wifi Adapter, that works too.

On Sprint, I know the cap for phones is 5GB of data per month, don't really know about AirCards.

Verizon has the 5GB limit too.
Can you explain how to bridge the connection?

thanks in advance

[robsta]

Originally Posted by broadwayblues

Verizon has the 5GB limit too.
Can you explain how to bridge the connection?

thanks in advance

OK, I did some research for ya regarding Verizon Air Cards, and there is no way to connect a Verizon Air Card and bridge the connections, they do in fact have that option 'locked' down through the use of a Virtual Private Network. Basically, your Air Card shows up as a regular old phone modem under Windows and then is connected to the Verizon network using their software, which uses a VPN. Windows won't bridge it unless it thinks its an ethernet connection of some sort, but since Verizon's VPN software is taking care of it all, Windows never sees it as an ethernet connection, just a high speed dial-up connection.

You could buy a AirCard Router and that would work flawlessly, but it isn't cheap.

Your CHEAP alternative is to go here: http://www.modaco.com/content/i9x0-o...verizon-omnia/ and enable data tethering on your Omnia.

After that your free to connect it to your computer via USB and use your phone as your "AirCard" or download WMWifiRouter to make your phone a WiFi router that uses your Omnia data connection as the ISP.

When you do it this way, you will also be able to bridge the connection because it will show up as an ethernet connection on the PC and bypass Verizon's VPN software. (just select both connections and right click, Bridge connections will be somewhere on that menu, I think it's bolded even).

BTW, from what I read, to bridge a connection you will need a crossover cable between the computer and your console. You can also use two regular CAT-5 cables connected to a router, which functions the same as a crossover cable.

Hope this helps! Sorry its confusing, its been about two years since I've had to do this, I gave in to Comcast, lol, you just can't say no to 16 Mbps down.