Is mobile broadband fast enough for online gaming?
Mobile broadband can be used successfully for online gaming, but how good your experience is will depend very much on the quality of signal you receive. Mobile broadband often has higher latency than fixed-line broadband, and this can be an issue if you are playing an action-intensive online game. The time taken for data to go from your computer, to the gaming server, and back to your computer, which is known as the ping or response time, needs to be between 100 and 500ms for a decent gaming experience. Mobile broadband can provide a low response time of 100ms when signal conditions are good, making even a demanding first person shooter game feasible, but it can also be as much as a few seconds in poor signal areas, where you may have to stick to MMO games such as World of Warcraft.
