Lords of Death Forums Lords of Death Forums LoD General Discussion Thinking about Clearwire internet

anyone have trouble with this? Or use it? Just wondering because it's wireless and I do a lot of FPS gaming and I have no clue how reliable that shit is.

Clearwire's coverage sucks ass. They don't have the resources to put up enough towers to get good service. You could try a cingular aircard too but I dunno how their coverage is. The speeds aren't nearly as fast as cable or dsl tho. You'll only download at like 35k a sec. Same with clearwire.

If you are in their prime coverage area, Clearwire rules from what I understand. A close friend of mine has it and is very happy with it. He's not an online gamer, so latency isn't terribly important to him. He downloads and uploads massive graphics files for a living and his download speed is 500 kb/sec +. His upload is only about 100 kb/sec which is still pretty fucking respectable.
I had the Sprint PCS card and was relativley happy with it until I moved. In my old residence, it worked quite well in terms of download speeds (was up to 150 kb/sec at times - usually around 120) and decent upload speeds (about 40kb/sec). In terms of online game play - it was about the same as a modem in terms of latency (average ping to a WoW server ballpark 400ms) but much better in terms of bandwidth (patching, zone changes). At that time, I would have recommended it to anybody.
Then I moved. At my current residence, the Sprint card sucks ass. It's basically about the same as a bad analog modem connection now. Good thing that high-speed is available at my new house (was installed on day 2 of residency).
Moose

Reliability is one of the most important factors to look into if your a gamer.. Even if the down/up speeds are good you could be running into periodic spikes or drops in the connection..
Dunno about you, but I'd be pretty pissT if I was about to slay onyxia and my internet dropped ^^