gaming on verizon MIFI

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I may be buying a house outside of anyone who services DSL or cable internet. My only option would be Verizon mifi. Where we may be moving will only have 3G. What are the chances that I will be able to play games online? This is a potential deal breaker for me buying the house. It is everything me and the wife have been looking for the last 5 years, but no online gaming would be a pretty big loss for me as silly as that sounds.
 
I dont have mifi but once a week i game using my verizon galaxy s3 mobile hot spot without issue.
 
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I dont have mifi but once a week i game using my verizon galaxy s3 mobile hot spot without issue.
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Are you in a 3G area, or are you in a 4G area?

I've been reading some more about it and it sounds like it might work fine even on 3G. What scares me is the 10 gig data cap. I would kill that with updates. I would almost have to take my PC to a friends house some to get my updates for games.
 
Ahh, im in a 4g area.
It would be wise to get updates at a friends house. At least unt you figure out your game usage. I was surprised by how little data 4+hours of bf3 used.
 
That doesn't sound silly at all. I would not buy a house if it was outside of DSL/Cable access. Just no way..... Anyways, enough of my addictions.

Most of BF3 is client side anyways, hence most of the problems of hit boxes that result in no kills.

Depending on what online gaming you are doing, and your ping, you will probably be alright. You could also check into some of the home wifi units from Verizon. They might provide better ping/bandwidth than the little mifi units.

Are you really in Ohio? I know a gal, not sure what town, in Ohio that is getting over 300mb down and over 150mb up for $39.95/mo. I about puked when she told me that.
 
The only game I would really miss is Iracing. If I could get that to run well I would be good to go.

I am in Ohio and I am no where near getting those kinds of speeds. Mine is about 30 down and 1 up if I'm lucky with roadrunnner. It's the only cable offered where I'm at now. I live in a really small town. She could probably download more in a night then everyone in my town put together :)

I've called verizon and the they claim the fastest thing I can get is the mifi. I have a buddy though that does some kind of programming for verizon's towers or something and he's gonna check it out for me. Hopefully he can come up with something.

Regardless of the high speed internet I think we will get the house. It's my wifes dream setup. Outside of town with a pool, pond, and 20 acres. Her and the kids would love it. It really is a fantastic place but the lack of gaming internet would have me down for awhile. I'm sure one day super fast internet will be everywhere and I'll be sitting there waiting on it. In the meantime I will search high and low to find something to keep me into racing.

The bummer of the whole thing is I have a clubsport wheel getting here wednesday and if we buy the place that thing will never get used without Iracing.
 
Well, that does sound like a pretty sweet, dream like, home situation. :) I wouldn't trade that for just internet access, no matter how much I'm rocking back and forth, back and forth, back and forth in the corner. :)
 
I would think 3G speeds would be enough for online gaming. I've managed a few races on GT5 using dial-up so 3G shouldn't be an issue. :lol:
 
Although download and upload speeds may be alright on 3G, I find my ping to be around 200ms which is too slow for gaming,but that is on my phone and networks in the US might work differently.
 
I have a Verizon Mifi 2200. Assuming a strong signal, it can pull down about 1.5 Mbps per second (around .75-1 Mbps up) and will see around a 125ms ping.

As noted by Pako, the newer mobile hotspots can probably get that ping down quite a bit, but you'll be hard-pressed to get much more than about 2 Mbps out of Verizon's 3G network anywhere you're at.

I've never tried gaming with it, but I have pushed out quite a few blog posts to GTP while riding in the car. :D
 
More than likely Verizon will let you take one home and try it. My parents live outside Cable/DSL access and that's what they use. I've never gamed on it, but normal web browsing seems ok.

Worth a call to your Verizon store and see if you can demo one for a day.
 
It will work alot better than normal broadband, which is what i have and latency can be an issue sometimes depending on the weather patterns lol My friend brought his phone over and it worked better... sadly, he did not feel like leaving his phone with me lol
 
Gaming should be fine! My friend uses his 3G hotspot to game and has no issue at all! From what I've read, mifi is pretty much just a hotspot with a larger radius. (Correct me if i'm wrong) Which, logically, should have the same results as someone using their phones hotspot. The only thing i'd mention is that you'd probably want to be the only person using the hotspot when you're gaming, as the sleeps are pretty low. But hey, I could play online games with 0.5MB/s connection, you should be fine!
 
I finally got the bright idea to use the wife's Ipad as a hotspot and just try it out here on the 360. Everything worked fine, I am though on AT&T here , and from what I hear their 3G is faster then verizon but I think Verizon has alot faster 4G from what I. Either way I guess verizon is getting 4G in the area at the beginning of next year so it sounds like as far as internet goes I would be good. Now if the wife would just make up her mind about the house.
 
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I finally got the bright idea to use the wife's Ipad as a hotspot and just try it out here on the 360. Everything worked fine, I am though on AT&T here , and from what I hear their 3G is faster then verizon but I think Verizon has alot faster 4G from what I. Either way I guess verizon is getting 4G in the area at the beginning of next year so it sounds like as far as internet goes I would be good. Now if the wife would just make up her mind about the house.
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I have started using Truconnect mifi. No Contract required. I am to pay only to the extent of my usage nad there is no need to get tied down to an expensive monthly fixed usage plan that you may or may not use. Its ok to use a little more one month or nothing the next. Ideal for the not so regular user. I got rid of the so-called “free” Wi-Fi hotspots wherein the connection is hardly secure and likely to allow any snoop to steal my personal info. With TruConnect of course, I am on a secure connection.
 
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^^^ Doesn't sound like a very good deal to me.... A single GB of bandwidth costs you $39.93? Yikes! Last night alone would have cost me $663.00. Limited to 3G speeds.... Maybe, and heavy on the maybe, if all I did was check email then it might make sense but between downloads, streaming media, and gaming, it would just get too expensive too quickly. There are 5gb plans out there for $39.95 with speeds up to 4G. That is 1/4 the cost at up to 10x's faster speeds.
 

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