Hi,

I know most people dont recommend wireless for online gaming but I am leading a nomad life, change accommodation very often. I plan to take up Celcom 3G due to coverage and anyone ever tried playing WoW on Celcom 3G pls share exp and thoughts

Primarily questing on WoW and some ganking on low-lvl, I dont bother with raids or instances as Streamyx wired is just as bad.

This post has been edited by Computer^freak: Mar 7 2008, 07:22 PM

Just bring your modem with you wherever you go and connect to Streamyx from the hotel.

I heard Celcom 3G sucks. Celcom 3.5G comes with 1k ms constant. But its just that, it seldom lags... so dun play a rogue or anything that requires quick reflexes ><

i use celcom 3G 3.5G but not stable, always DC when play dota, also have high ping/latency, better use streamyx line

3.5G = HSDPA?

any wireless/mobile phone is slow (delay), even if u have full signal strength, the delay is still there.. it's better to use streamyx, or 1515 (i haven't tried the 5.6kbps yet =P)

my fren use celcom 3G play wow and all i can say its better then streamyx i think, but during the night u'll feel laggie

This post has been edited by zeff: Mar 17 2008, 08:42 AM

Bet your friend isn't raiding though.

Ok, i got my celcom 3G and reactivated my account just to explore the latency. My package is the 384 kbps (around that speed).

So, hope this will be a helpful reference for people who plans to wow with wireless.

Lowest latency - 1098 ms

Average latency - 1500 ms

Highest - 2k ms

The latency is very unstable unlike wired streamyx.

Opinion, questing is still possible at around 1k - 1.5k ms but threshold above that will exp freeze which is bad ! Instances are impossible.

Well, if you are on vacation and wanna do some wowing (provided there's coverage), Upgrading profession, farm exp gold etc are still doable.


cheers

good celcom , ehhem

There is an ugly side to Celcom. Found out from the IT guy at my company.

It's up to them whether they really open up a proper 3G port for you. Else, you're on the GPRS lines.

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Added on April 18, 2008, 8:23 amMaybe a bit more about this.

The IT Manager was showing me a Blackberry a few years back when we were trial-ing their service at the company. It was slow and admittedly for 3G. Made a remark to the local CELCOM rep and suddenly the speed of it was extremely fast for browsing and downloads.

We switch the phone card with a 3G phone and again fast. We compared the surfing speed against a phone card with GPRS online - very slow.

This post has been edited by myremi: Apr 18 2008, 08:23 AM

myremi did you test latency? As browsing/download is a bad comparison for online gaming. So far i have not found anyone that can gaming on a mobile broadband (e.g 3G) without suffering significant latency.

hopefully Wimax can cover that

Yeah I know it's a bad comparison. But I was impress at the speed of browsing on a Blackberry provided that CELCOM got it right the first time.

Bro, look for other alternative. Izzi, P1... I believe more and more wireless broadband is in the market now. Celcom 3G is far way too expensive then others.

If anyone knows of mobile broadband that can give me 500ms> on Wow i'll jump into it in a sec. *Great for traveling * But seeing how most of the new offering are still just localised to klang valley.... need to wait for a couple of years to grow... sigh.

I don't think that any WoW player worldwide is playing WoW on mobile broadband.

....unless Japan?

wireless and discussing latency issue?
Wireless latency can't never win wired's latency unless wired have bad cable wiring...

Wireless will be wireless

They can't produce constant data , its because of many factors. So forget it.

I used to play on Celcom 3G. I think it was Tidewalker in SSC. Everytime the pack of murlocs came out, I d/c. Everytime.

It was also constant 700-900ms (which is quite bad). I wouldn't recommend it at all. So far streamyx has been getting better, 300-400ms if there is no torrents/downloads going on.

300 to 500ms for me on streamyx.

Celcom 3G has got fast download speed but that's not important on MMO's.. you need PING!