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Old 12-15-2010, 10:11 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by photon View Post
The speed of the data service will probably be less of an issue, where the latency will probably be what kills it.. for any kind of action game a latency in the 10's of ms is best, just over 100ms maybe if you don't mind never being able to snipe anyone, whereas I suspect with a datastick you're probably talking in the multiples of 100's of ms latency.

But WoW type games would probably work fine.
pfff, i was king with the railgun in Quake 2 with a 350-400ms ping on my dial-up connection. i wore that HPB badge with pride
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