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Tethering on xbox 360
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Um...
no.
Do you realize how much you would lag and glitch? Also, your carrier would notice the massive data usage.
kthnxbai,
Don
3g is faster than my wifi so laging and glitching? Don't think so. I didn't ask how well it would work i asked if it would work.
I ran a speed test with a 3G connection on. I was getting 1.8mbt/s . That should be more then good enough to play a game...
Yeah, I think so. It may be faster, but 3G does not have nearly as much upstream bandwidth as a cable or DSL line.
And your carrier (especially AT&T) would kill you with unauthorized tethering fees.
Don
That's true. My exact results were:
3G
1.96mb/s down
0.22mb/s up.
Edge:
0.15mb/s down
0.08mb/s up
WiFi:
1.82mb/s down
4.74mb/s up
That is a big difference.
It's a fair question not one that requires a smart ass remark like kthnxbai. The data probably wouldn't be *massive* unless you played only through 3G and for extended amounts of time. A game like halo only has a ~10-20 kilobytes coming in and out at a time, not different from someone going from youtube to youtube to youtube. I know I've loaded really long lectures on the iPhone through youtube and seen my bill with 12 megabyte transfers with no problems.
And the question is a good one, I've thought about this too - imagine playing Halo while in the car if you hook up a 360 to the back seat screen of a mini van. Plus, some people's broadband just isn't reliable. I know mine at home in Kentucky can be much worse than the perceived 3G signal while loading youtube or web pages.
Anyways, if someone knows the answer to this it would be helpful. I don't see why you couldn't do an iPhone -(wireless ad hoc network)> Laptop -(via CAT5 networking cable)> 360
Even if the band with is higher. The ping time over ATT network will be by far higher and it will not work.
in online gaming Ping time is a lot more important than bandwith
in online gaming Ping time is a lot more important than bandwith
Funny, because XBOX LIVE requires broadband. I'd really like to know how you hooked a phone line up to your XBOX, and how you managed to fool Microsoft's servers into thinking a dial-up connection was a broadband connection.
Don
good point, rodimus prime. i have no knowledge of how the 3g ping really is but i trust you when you say it to be significantly high. still, if you try it OP, let us know how it goes!
I sold my 3G so i won't be able to test it out until friday when i get my 3G S
eh, i got nothing else to do, i'll connect the iphone to the macbook and connect the 360 to the macbook and see what happens, give me a couple of minutes
Have you ever heard of an adapter? WOW
kthxbai
Yeah um....
They don't make ethernet -> RJ11 adaptors. They do make HPNA/ethernet bridges, which require a USB port and drivers for the bridge to work, and you still only have dial-up speeds, which will not ping Microsoft's servers fast enough to allow an XBOX LIVE connection to be established.
kthnxbai,
Don
Basically I set up internet sharing between the modem on the computer and the Ethernet port, then I just connected the xbox to the computers Ethernet port.
You obviously never have played Halo 3 or any other game with mass amounts of players, because this happens all the time.