How many of you game on the go?

I am disabled and I have been stuck in the house for the last 11 years outside of going to the grocery store or a family event I never get out of the house and I am tired of it. I recently so my desktop and bought a Dell Inspiron 17 with a I3 1.9ghz x2 4gb of ram and a 500gb hard drive.

The game I mostly play is Everquest 2 and the laptop gets around 30+fps on balanced with the shader disabled it more then meets my needs. At first I tired 3g and the ping was over 100 and zoning was slow at times. And then I heard about 4gLTE so I bought a 4gLTE hotspot and now I am getting 60 ping and 19mbps down and 9mbps up. Playing EQ2 is no different then playing from home now.

I know you can bring your laptop to McDonald's, Starbucks and the Library. So far I have been to 3 different libraries, do you guys know of any other places you can take your laptop. And also if you game on the go please share your experiences.

Greg

 

Hey bro, nice to have you among us! Yes we indeed game everywhere (airports, cafes, friends' places, lecture halls, you name it ) but the problem is usually we need an outlet as it is pseudo impossible to game on the battery (demanding titles, but I always have a side kick like Torchlight 2 and Trine 2 nowadays to game on battery). We are a very big community that games on the go. I always find a wireless network wherever I am and game on it rather than 4gLTE connection (but I am sure that is more than sufficient to game on). Interesting, I never gamed in a library, I wanna find a library to play something right now Again nice to have you with us, welcome!!

 

Thanks for the warm welcome :hi2:. So far I haven't had any problems gaming with the 4gLTE. Its just as responsive as my Comcast home connection. Do you know of a good wifi locator website? The ones I found are not that good.

P.S. So far every library that I have been to has a section dedicated to laptops and free wifi.

 

Most public wi-fi isn't good for gaming. It's usually high pings, or congested traffic.

 

Not an online gamer, so I won't be very helpful to you here. My gaming on the go usually consists of low-power games (often older) that I can play on battery and without an internet connection. Since I have a desktop at home, my laptop gaming is pretty much exclusively games that I can play in this way - my current poison is System Shock 2 since it finally came out on GOG.

 

Not to mention the bandwidth you do get, you're taking away from everyone else, and that's just rude.

 

online gaming doesn't take much bandwidth, you need low latency.

 

I don't need public internet, I have 4gLTE cell phone internet which has a 60 ping and 19mbps down and 9mbps up. I get 5gb for $50 a month, so far Everquest 2 has been sipping bandwidth. I used a little over 70mb today for 2.5hrs of gaming and surfing the web. At that rate I can game all month long away from home and never go over.

 

Well, in that case, you can pretty much game wherever you want, provided laptops aren't banned (like a college exam room or something).

As for myself, I used to game quite a bit, but not anymore. And the games I still continue to play are either single-player only (either by design, or the game's so old that the online servers are shut down) or multiplayer games that I only play in single-player (Portal 2, for example). Only online game I really play anymore is MW3 on the Xbox 360.

 

Yeah MP games don't use much bandwidth, they only want to push and receive whatever they do as fast as it can. Streaming videos can completely suck up bandwidth, which people do en masse on public wi-fi.

 

The reason i have a high end gaming lap top is because im at work more than im not. The office has a good 15mb connection. And i use it to its full extent.