[ale] OT: phone tethering is awesome!

[Michael Trausch]

That's surprising to me. My connection is good and the bandwidth is good,
but the latency stinks on cell phones. It takes about 1/5 to 2/5 of a second
for ping on average, compared to 9ms on my cable connection, to ping Google
as an example.

I would imagine that gaming on the cell network would necessarily be higher
latency than on a normal connection. I am pretty sure that back when I was
on a 56kbps connection the latency was better (than today's cell
connections), but I could be wrong.

--
Sent from my ADP1 running Android 2.1

On May 6, 2010 9:11 PM, "steve at brown.name" <scbrown3 at gmail.com> wrote:

A friend of mine just recently moved and doesn't have internet service at
his house yet so he used his Droid tethered to his computer to play the
Starcraft 2 beta with me. There wasn't any lag for the whole game which I
found pretty amazing. He told me he had also played WoW without a problem
too. I'll have to ask him what his data usage looks like :o
-Steve Brown

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