PS3/Netflix

I game but not on ps3 - I play an mmo with a trucker who, when out on the road uses his laptop to play. He doesn't always get a good enough connection to do some of the difficult things, but he is in game quite often on the road. He also uses netflix and says he usually gets a decent enough connection with few loading interruptions. However, I get loading interruptions at my house when using netflix streaming I can imagine it's going to happen quite a bit on the road

 

yes yo cqan do it reall easy first go to verizon wireless and get an air card then go to best buy and find a router that will work with a usb port and hook them bolth up and hurray you have internet and think every where youu go that has cell service youll have internet

 

You can also tether your smart phone to your laptop with a usb cord, which is what I do now for internet. Then depending on the version of windows you have you can set up internet connection sharing and connect the PS3 to your laptop with an ethernet cable or possibly broadcast through the laptops wireless card. I haven't tried this as I do not use the online stuff with my ps3.

 

Well lets make it cheaper than buying an $80 router that supports a USB ran mobile broadband card. It gets a little techy though I will warn you. What you do is connect your laptop to the internet, then go into your network and sharing center (vista/7) or network connections(xp and older) and create a new connection, Look through the list and find "Ad-Hoc" connection and set it up. After this is done go into the connections list and find your mobile broadband card and right click it to go into properties, Find the connection sharing option and select to "share this internet connection". After this follow normal procedures to connect your devices to the computer through the wifi ad-hoc network. To be honest you could even do this at home to avoid having to buy a wireless router by simply using a network bridge. Network bridges are easily set up by going into the connection list and selecting both the ethernet connection and the wireless connection right click and select bridge connections. This can not be done with a dial-up connection (I.E. mobile broadband) due to technological limitations. The ability to play online games is less dependant on speed than most people thing. I have played some computer games like diablo 2 or starcraft online with a connections speed of 12Kb/s, almost all the data is stored on the local machine and so is not transferred. The latency is the important number, this is how long it takes for data to leave the host and reach the client or vice versa. As a perfect examply sattelite internet can offer extremely fast speeds (over 20 Mb/s) however is subject to up to 1000ms(or 1 second) latencies. In other words it can send all the data it needs to but it will take a full second for the other machine to even realize the data exists. While this is ok for web browsing and turn based games, if you want to play some MW3 or any other fast paced game of the like you can imagine what will happen if it takes the host console a full second to realize that you pulled the trigger. Hope this helps and if you have any questions you can post here or just shoot me a message.

 

On a side note for speed through any mobile broadband is going to be anywhere from 3Kb/s (for comparison old dial-up internet is 56Kb/s) up to 10Mb/s (average broadband speed for the world sits in the 8-10Mb/s). This all depends on location, signal strength, local geography, radio wave congestion, equipment quality, and finnaly the firmware, software, and hardware of both the transmitter (cell tower) and the reciever (you). A great examply of this is the fact that while the usb modem can reciever up to 10Mb/s a USB 2.0 port can only transmit around 5Mb/s of data. You would need a USB 3.0 port to take advantage of the faster speed.

 

Or use your mobile hotspot from your smartphone, preferably Verizon.

The Cradlepoint MBR1400, the MBR95, and CTR35 are three of the routers that support WiFi as WAN

"WiFi as WAN" has become a "hot" feature lately, and it's available on many of the newly available routers, including most of Cradlepoint's new netBSD routers and the WiFiRanger. It's a very useful feature, but many users aren't familiar with what it is or if they need it.
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Simply put, WiFi as WAN means that the router can receive WiFi from an external source (for example, campground WiFi at an RV park, free WiFi at McDonald's, or even the hotspot feature from a smartphone like the iPhone) and create a private network that you can access securely through your router (either via WiFi or ethernet, however you like to connect to your router).

• Augmenting the network from hotspot devices - hotspots like the MiFi or Overdrive offer limited WiFi range, only allow a few users to connect, and don't provide an ethernet port for connecting hardwired devices like desktop computers. A router with WiFi as WAN can receive the WiFi from your hotspot and create a network from it with a much wider range, higher user limit, and access for ethernet equipment.

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