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EVDO Day 6: Gaming
I know several of you have been waiting for this report on the EVDO. Can it handle the speeds necessary to play a good old game of World of Warcraft? The answer is... about 75% of the time, yes. I've been playing WoW over the past week on EVDO and it works pretty well for the most part. The latency has been in the 180-345ms range, although it has dipped much slower at various times (the worst was 1498ms latency). This morning, I played for an hour and a half in the green with minimal latency issues. I completed two quests! Weeeee!
However, on other days, I've played in the yellow for quite a bit with a few buggy occurences. One day, I got fully stuck on a piece of furniture in one of the villages and could run, but didn't actually move anywhere. Then another day, while playing in the red, I was wondering where all the bad guys I was supposed to be slaying had gone, only to find the villages and everywhere else completely devoid of life.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Robin said 4:04PM on 10-08-2005
Nice. Ive been wondering how it performs on WoW for a while...
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David C. said 5:12PM on 10-08-2005
I think this is the first post in your series that I care absolutely nothing about.
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Steven said 5:44PM on 10-08-2005
Actually, everybody on our server has been getting 1400ms pings at times, due to blizzard taking out the queues (we assume). So it actually might not be your EVDO. Some people reported 3sec latency, but the worst I hit was about 2sec.
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EVDO Guy said 1:25AM on 10-10-2005
We have a thread on EVDO and Gaming at:
http://www.evdoforums.com/about502.html
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