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[SakuranoSenshi]

Grimjester, on 13 August 2012 - 04:45 AM, said:

Run on some low bandwidths (as in cell connections 3G/4G) and most current MMOs will run on those connections depending on how they are coded. Higher bandwidth the better if you have access. Have also seen games have adverse affects when I was runnin a FIOS connection in the past, which makes it fun to test both types of connections. Dropping you a PM.

Bandwidth is still not the issue, latency is. That said, the kind of connections you just mentioned also typically have large latencies.

[SteelJax]

SakuranoSenshi, on 13 August 2012 - 09:55 PM, said:

Bandwidth is still not the issue, latency is. That said, the kind of connections you just mentioned also typically have large latencies.

Latency is #1 enemy of online gaming

[SakuranoSenshi]

Aye, because the network was never designed with it in mind, at all. To this day people are still amazed (not all obviously) when I remind them that email not only doesn't have any guarantee that it will arrive quickly but doesn't even have a delivery guarantee at all. The networks we all rely on were built on protocols and hardware that was designed with redundancy and resilience in mind, not high-speed information exchange in real time.