Can i play WoW with this internet?

[hhcave]

For various reasons i have to use a 3g internet provider (ie. no wireless modem or anything, just the the USB stick) - do you think this would be fine for WotLK?

http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/mobile-broadband/data-devices/?ENC_PID=4218&ENC_REF=DGM&dgmPubId=4218

I'm looking at the "USB Modem Stick - Pro"... Also has anyone has something like this before? Is it stable?

Lastly - I'm on an Oceanic (US) server but i am in the UK at the moment - will i be able to play as the specs for the USB say "Europe Only"? It may mean i cant connect in the US but do you reckon i could connect to the US servers from the UK?

Thanks!

[Kalos]

By "Europe only" it is referring to the place you physically have to be in for the device to work. The American mobile phone network is incompatible, thus the device would not connect there. But that's only the first leg, once you've got successfully into the local compatible mobile phone network the traffic will go anywhere in the world. Otherwise it'd be madness as website hosts are scattered all over the world, you'd be able to use very little of the actual web at all, so it doesn't work in that manner.

I wouldn't recommend it for WoW. Sky high latencies, and very costly bandwidth, mobile broadband providers like to throw the book at you for either accessing for too long or too much data, which is exactly the opposite of what you want for raiding or downloading patches. There's been more than a few people who have ended up gobsmacked at recieving bills ranging over £10,000. I'd seriously read up on such stories, for instance: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1580448/Man-fined-andpound11,000-for-downloading-Friends.html and http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/bbphone/article.html?in_article_id=445603&in_page_id=182.

With people getting billed over £1000 simply for looking at something like a single company website, imagine how much several thousand megs worth of patches would cost if the deal ends up biting you severely. I'd read into your contract very hard, as well as develop an understanding both of the base technology and how it functions and the horror stories that have happened to each other. The 3G wireless internet market is perhaps the most corrupt, abused, and in need of regulation of all the next generation technologies in the UK. Too many stories about people getting ripped off, and no sign of improvement either in corporate attitude or state legislation.

[surodat]

I would listen to Kalos.

This (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/13/mobe_bill/)was my favourite story for a while.

[mmogrl]

I would listen to Kalos.

This (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/13/mobe_bill/)was my favourite story for a while.

Are your tubes wide enough?