MBX on 3G aircards.

[candlebox]

So, we recently closed on our house, and did pretty well.

Here's our problem. We are about....7 miles from DSL, Cable, and 4G.

Our options are Satellite (Hughes net) or Dial up.

I checked and i have full bars as well as 3g outside of our house (the steel construction cuts the signal)

So I purchased this:
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller?item=phoneFirst&action=viewPhoneDetail&selectedPhoneId=5633

Which is a Mobile hotspot. It supports 5 Connections at one time, and supports both 4g and 3g. We dont have 4g so this we default to a constant 3g, which is pretty stable from what ive seen from my work laptop ( not so for 4g).

I bought an antenna for it to mount outside on a pole.

I understand that the transfer rates are slower than 4g, but i know i played wow just fine tethered on my droid, as it ran at about 12 mb per hour.

This would mean if i ran 5 acts x 12mbs @ 4 hours/day would put me at 240mb per day x 7dys x 4wks = 6.75 gigs a month.

I purchased the 10g plan, and plan on downloading my patches at my parents for whom i pay for cox which runs at about 1.2 mbs.

Will this be sufficient to run all five toons, or should i invest in another card so they wont share the same bandwith, or should i run more PCs and tether our phones. If anyone has a say so on stability would be great as well. I seen that you could increase signal with a coffee can also.

I live in oklahoma and we have crazy spontaneous weather. 70 mph winds, rain, ice , snow, tornadoes, fires, and now earthquakes, etc.. which is why i dont want satellite. I seen this as the only(best) solution to our gaming needs

Thanks

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I tethered via my Sprint EVO on borderline 3G here for a few months. I was averaging about 1.2mbps over the 3G link, so nothing stellar, and my pings were around 170-220ish. Not great, but usable. I was able to do 5x clients, with the fairly rare glitches that would drop me offline. It seemed to be fine for most normal tasks, though things that normally lag everyone (Dalaran, large PVP fights like city invasions, etc.) were much more prone to problems. My mother tethers via Verizon 3G out in the boonies and aside from the occasional lag in big cities, she doesn't have any issues multiboxing 2 clients.

[Multibocks]

Your mother multi boxes?! That is so cool!

[Ughmahedhurtz]

She's always been a gamer. First cards, then Nintendo, then King's Quest/Police Quest/etc., now MMOs.

[F9thRet]

I may have to try out 3g or 4g sometime. Was on Hughes for about 6 years, and been on Wildblue now for a little over 2 years.

Stephen

[Ughmahedhurtz]

3g tethering is worlds better than satellite interwebz. They have HughesNet for normal web surfing and OMG does it suck. 3000ms latency, bandwidth caps, etc. My dad spent the morning of the BP oil spill watching youtube on the capping efforts and blew his bandwidth cap by lunch. LAME.

/rant off

[candlebox]

Thanks for all the input guys.

Im posting from it right now : ) Damn its nice living in a house. 8 years in an apartment has been brutal. Blasting my Bloodhound gang w/ full base.

Problem i suppose is that the PC i built dosent have a wifi card : ( looks like im off to best buy later.

It takes about 3-8 seconds to load a page on here.

[candlebox]

Ok was at 190 ms home, and 300 world.

I was in stormwind with the graphics down to med.

hell yeah, i can continue on with my nerdy life w/o screaming at a satellite dish for 10 + years'

:D

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Glad it's working out for you. :)