Anyone using those white modem things from 3, O2, Vodafone for Xbox Live?

redtom

Anyone using those white mobile broadband modem things from 3, O2, Vodafone for Xbox Live - are they suitable for this? Was on to 3 and they don't seem to have a clue about it...


i.e.

this here

http://www.three.ie/broadband/datamodem.htm

Rafloution

My mate had the same issue with 3 yesterday, ,they fobbed him off. He got it workign himself last night. dont take no for an answer!!

grizzly

I don't think you'd a very steady connection from one of those. Prove me wrong kids, prove me wrong!

Kristok

im sure they could be stable enough but the pings would be awful. When you try to open a webpage it can take an age to get a reply.

FutureGuy

I was in 3 about 2 months ago and they said it wasn't suitable for gaming...having said that, they guy didn't look 100%. They all havbe money back guarantees nowadays so you could always try!

RAIN

My mate got one from somewhere and they gave him a 14 day trial , he didnt think much of it but he was in the backend of nowhere and they work of the mobile coverage in an area. Could be worth the 14 day trial. Doubth it would do the job tbh

zAbbo

14 Day trial?

More like 14 day Irish Law

Blazer

All these modems are notoriously bad..little better than dialup unless you're living in Dublin or Galway..especially 3G who are way oversubscribed.
You can definitely forget about playing games on live with this. The ping would be well over 300ms and that's bad.
The only thing it would be good for it downloading console updates etc.

Y2J_MUFC

Depends on the time of day, location..... sometimes its fine, but sometimes it's not...

bennyc

What about the Vodafone or 02 3G datacard a lot of my mates are using them for work and asking if its now worth getting a 360 for online gaming. Can anyone say they are using this setup ?

PS they are all getting 2.5 - 3MB

event

Mathew Reilly wrote: »

All these modems are notoriously bad..little better than dialup unless you're living in Dublin or Galway..especially 3G who are way oversubscribed.
You can definitely forget about playing games on live with this. The ping would be well over 300ms and that's bad.
The only thing it would be good for it downloading console updates etc.

Kristok wrote: »

im sure they could be stable enough but the pings would be awful. When you try to open a webpage it can take an age to get a reply.

:rolleyes:

uncle of mine has mobile O2 broadband. he gets download speeds of 2.8Mb and ping times of under 80ms

A mate of mine has digiwebs mobile broadband, he gets ping times of under 50 ms

OP: get it and see, you can test it for two weeks and send it back if not happy

everyone else, Do you know for a fact that pings would be high?

StickyMcGinty

btw lads, kinda off topic, but what servers are best to ping for testing your latency to the xbox live servers?

Melion

Could someone tell me how to set this up to work with Live please?

I tried it last year but nothing happened when i plugged it into the xbox.

liamnojo92

definetely works with xbox played cod4 pes2008 and pgr without any lag in hsdpa

A-Trak

Melion wrote: »

Could someone tell me how to set this up to work with Live please

I tried it last year but nothing happened when i plugged it into the xbox.

As there all plug and play with the drivers etc for a windows environment your xbox won't recognise them when you plug them in.

You'll have to install them on your pc as a modem and and share the connection via ethernet with the xbox.

mukki

liamnojo92 wrote: »

definetely works with xbox played cod4 pes2008 and pgr without any lag in hsdpa

stop lying :mad:

yeah
lets all believe someone who


1)joined today and only has one post on boards,
2)when i checked his profile is currently looking at 23:52
Getting rock solid 160KB/sec on Vodafone HSDPA today

3)was just reading a vodafone HSDPA coverage thread before that

4)now is searching forums at 23:56

5) what do you know 23:57 is reading
Life after 3 USB nightmare thanks to o2


don't normally stalk but i never trust a nubie

miju

internet stalking is baaaaaad mukki

4,000th post WHHOOOOOOT

liamnojo92

actually mukki im not lying was on vodafone 3g great for gaming on hsdpa but sht when droped to 3g 3 bars in call of duty with hsdpa and 2 in pes vodafone got cancelled because unpaid bill(on dial-up now) so looking whether to go to 3 or o2 probably o2 because 3s well u know and i always check board.ie ive just never feeled the need to post before now test if u can get hsdpa with o2 or vodafone maybe even 3 u should be able to play most games online with minimal lag

mukki

liamnojo92 wrote: »

actually mukki im not lying was on vodafone 3g great for gaming on hsdpa but sht when droped to 3g 3 bars in call of duty with hsdpa and 2 in pes vodafone got cancelled because unpaid bill(on dial-up now) so looking whether to go to 3 or o2 probably o2 because 3s well u know and i always check board.ie ive just never feeled the need to post before now test if u can get hsdpa with o2 or vodafone maybe even 3 u should be able to play most games online with minimal lag

sorry mate


welcome to boards

conjamuk

For those saying mobile broadband wont work on live listen it is flawless on hsdpa halo cod 4 all play grand but if you are in normal 3g its ****e

liamnojo92

mukki wrote: »

sorry mate


welcome to boards

lol:D it did look a bit suspicous by the way i was only gettin 1meg download(actually never got up to 1meg always at around 998kb/s lol )and upload around 350kb/s weirdly towards the last few weeks my download went down to around 350kb/s but my upload stayed the same obviously more users but dont know why my upload didnt change mukki i think maybe u should become a detective but a pretty crap one at that lol:D
tell ye what 02 islike for xbox hopefully 2morro
ba bye

thebman

event wrote: »

:rolleyes:

uncle of mine has mobile O2 broadband. he gets download speeds of 2.8Mb and ping times of under 80ms

A mate of mine has digiwebs mobile broadband, he gets ping times of under 50 ms

OP: get it and see, you can test it for two weeks and send it back if not happy

everyone else, Do you know for a fact that pings would be high?

Yes the pings will be bad Fact.

I doubt your uncle got those speeds. The fastest ping I've seen on HSDPA speed tests is 140ms or there abouts. Could have been a faulty/bad speed test or something odd like that.

Three are the worst provider of the 3 and should be avoided like the plague (see the sticky in the broadband forums with over 3,500 posts about their terrible service).

High ping times are a known issue of HSDPA technology. Treat any other post as highly suspicious IMO as these providers have people on boards.ie (not imply this user is, I just don't know). HSUPA is an attempt to fix the problem (not available yet AFAIK).

Not to mention upload speeds are very slow on HSDPA broadband as there is very little bandwidth for uploads and it is shared among the users in the area so usually very poor and might not be fast enough for live.

Digiweb use a different technology which actually might be suitable for gaming if you could get it. Digiwebs mobile BB also has much better upload speeds and more steady connection speeds which could make it suitable for gaming. Worth trying before the others since the ISP also has a good reputation.

conjamuk

i have hard of people getting 70 ms ping time constant on o2 but you can have pings of over 100 ms on live and have a fairly enjoyable gaming experience i am saying this because some people do not have access to broadband and this could give them a chance to play on live it works for me anyway

TheDoc

i think people should really open up tbh

people said that you couldnt download anything fast on eircoms 2mb line nevermind running wireless

i have that package and run an xbox, 3 computers, xbox and 2 laptops.

all being used as of now

and im downloading at 799k/s

thebman

The reason you might different reports on matters with eircom is the line quality could be bad for someone reporting it bad.

Phone lines are suitable for gaming. The gaming itself doesn't require massive speeds especially if you don't host games but it requires low ping times.

You won't find ping times mentioned in anything from the ISP's, you have to ask people that have experiences with the technology.

I use fixed wireless 2Mbps up/down and have no trouble gaming on it. pings are usually well under 100ms.

However mobile broadband using HSDPA technology as it is with O2, 3 and Vodafone is not really suitable for BB and most people should not expect ping times under 150 ms (my parents have 3's one and usually get 200ms+ pings). Pings over 150ms won't really be great for Live. If you don't get kicked from games, expect to die a lot without knowing why.

TheDoc

its a technology for the mobile business man

in time im sure we will see steady mobile wireless for gaming

but in a long time

davemul

Hey,
now stalking aside, I am not new but dont post alot of messages!

I use the vodafone 3g through my laptop and 99% of the time its perfect for playing COD4 live.

I did have a little bit of difficulty setting it up as my xbox would fail on the IP Address but I got that sorted through connection wizard.

You just have to make sure that Internet connection sharing is switched on.

Also, be care you done exceed your download limit. Mine is 5gb and can pretty much play to my hearts content but for lower limits, be careful and remember to have fun!!!
Dave:)