[ale] OT: phone tethering is awesome!

[Mike Harrison]

Laughing..  Ive currently got 1500ms pings 
from S. America to the USA. The cell phone is getting 30-500ms pings in country.

Same for what they call DSL.

Enjoy what you have. :)

Tethering the N900 is plug and play on ubuntu.
But I've only done it once. So far with a good smart phone I have not needed to beyond seeing that I can.

 
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Mike Harrison meuon at geeklabs.com
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----- Original message -----
> 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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