I play Crysis 2 on a mobile broadband card when I'm not home, and I've noticed that when I pop the card in the USB 3.0 ports, Crysis will say, "Your connection blah blah blah has been lost" But when I pop it in the 2.0 ports, its just fine. Anybody else have this problem? Btw, this all happens on my Alieware M17x R3. Any help would be appreciated!

It's probably normal behaviour if you're playing with a normal 3G device as they are hardly good for browsing let alone gaming, for mbb gaming you're better off waiting for 4G/3G LTE or at least using HSPDA+/triple 3G for a more stable connection and lower ping and jitter. 4G is where it's gonna be at in mbb gaming, speeds up to 1gbit per second and ping almost as low as a fibre line, almost makes any landline redundant.

Wow, that's craaaazy fast, and yes im on a 3G mbb. Thanks for the help, and it only logs me out on occasion.

4g will never be as fast as fiber optic. FIber optic is light transmission on glass or plastic. 4g is radio waves. However, fiber optic has graded index glass with a laser for up to 10 km with near zero loss. It works at the 850 nano meter (NM), 1350 nm, and 1550 nm wavelengths and radiowaves can't touch the speed of light. Fiber will always be faster then 4g unless you have a slow internet connection such as 7 mb/s then it'll run at 7 mb/s just like 4G will. If you set it up for 5 MB/s you're only getting 5 meg transfer rate not 1 gig. I have a degree in electronics (two almost) so I can say first hand it depends on your network speed. While 4G might be more stable for gaming you're still better off getting a PCI or PCI-e wireless adapter or hardwire adapter and hooking it into a modem or whatever. Fiber optic cable (light) > 4G (radio signals)

4g will never be as fast as fiber optic. FIber optic is light transmission on glass or plastic. 4g is radio waves. However, fiber optic has graded index glass with a laser for up to 10 km with near zero loss. It works at the 850 nano meter (NM), 1350 nm, and 1550 nm wavelengths and radiowaves can't touch the speed of light. Fiber will always be faster then 4g unless you have a slow internet connection such as 7 mb/s then it'll run at 7 mb/s just like 4G will. If you set it up for 5 MB/s you're only getting 5 meg transfer rate not 1 gig. I have a degree in electronics (two almost) so I can say first hand it depends on your network speed. While 4G might be more stable for gaming you're still better off getting a PCI or PCI-e wireless adapter or hardwire adapter and hooking it into a modem or whatever. Fiber optic cable (light) > 4G (radio signals)


"radiowaves can't touch the speed of light."

lol? You have a degree in electronics but you don't know that radiowaves and light are both from the EM spectrum which has the same speed but different frequencies?

"radiowaves can't touch the speed of light."

lol? You have a degree in electronics but you don't know that radiowaves and light are both from the EM spectrum which has the same speed but different frequencies?

Thank you, saved me the trouble

4g will never be as fast as fiber optic. FIber optic is light transmission on glass or plastic. 4g is radio waves. However, fiber optic has graded index glass with a laser for up to 10 km with near zero loss. It works at the 850 nano meter (NM), 1350 nm, and 1550 nm wavelengths and radiowaves can't touch the speed of light. Fiber will always be faster then 4g unless you have a slow internet connection such as 7 mb/s then it'll run at 7 mb/s just like 4G will. If you set it up for 5 MB/s you're only getting 5 meg transfer rate not 1 gig. I have a degree in electronics (two almost) so I can say first hand it depends on your network speed. While 4G might be more stable for gaming you're still better off getting a PCI or PCI-e wireless adapter or hardwire adapter and hooking it into a modem or whatever. Fiber optic cable (light) > 4G (radio signals)

Just about to say how wrong you are but then I seen you're from the states where they marketed what we call in the UK '3G' as '4G'.

This is the 4G I was on about, it's a lot faster than the 7.2mb/s HSPDA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G

Ha, gotta love the US's marketing stunt.

It's probably normal behaviour if you're playing with a normal 3G device as they are hardly good for browsing let alone gaming, for mbb gaming you're better off waiting for 4G/3G LTE or at least using HSPDA+/triple 3G for a more stable connection and lower ping and jitter. 4G is where it's gonna be at in mbb gaming, speeds up to 1gbit per second and ping almost as low as a fibre line, almost makes any landline redundant.

Everyone of us should remember that its 1 Gigabit=1024/8=128mega byte
this speed is not a big deal .These type of connections facilities are there and adopting it to public would take time but is exactly true.

Everyone of us should remember that its 1 Gigabit=1024/8=128mega byte
this speed is not a big deal .These type of connections facilities are there and adopting it to public would take time but is exactly true.

Not a great deal? That's lightning quick you could download a whole DVD's worth of data in under 40 seconds.

The average internet non-fibre connection today would probably take around one and a half hours to download the same amount

If you honestly think that's not quick what speed you getting then? I doubt you get anything much faster than a copper-line in India.

Well, here's the thing. 4g runs at a 17-20 meg. Whats fiber optic? Up to a gig which is 1024 mbs. So yes, it's better. Not to mention there isn't the interference from cell phones and other things. Fiber optic is more expensive but more reliable. It depends on a lot of factors on which you want to deal with. And ,y degree in electronics is more at the circuit board level such as being able to to repair (take parts off and put new ones on and solder...). And from what i've learned and researched, light is more reliable then radio waves. They may operate at the EMI levels but here's the hting, a thunderstorm can have sever effects on signal quality via a radio wave and not a jacketed fiber optic cable that underground. Ever notice how satelite goes out during wind storms and huge thunderstorms? Cable doesn't but satellite does, hmm. I wonder why that is. Funny how that works.

lol, yeah I was going to comment about the light vs radio waves too. However as Kzzzle mentioned fibre is shielded and less likely to be affected EMI, concrete walls, buildings, mountains, weather, heat. XD

4g is terrible in comparison unless you have line of sight to a transmission point, its also weak against being indoors/concrete walls XD. 3g is pretty annoying too, out in the front yard I get full bars, in my room I get 1 bar.

Fibre connections are stunningly fast but really expensive, and logistically difficult and expensive to install and lay down. It is far more secure than wireless though. My work has a 3gbit connection :O

4g will never be as fast as fiber optic. FIber optic is light transmission on glass or plastic. 4g is radio waves. However, fiber optic has graded index glass with a laser for up to 10 km with near zero loss. It works at the 850 nano meter (NM), 1350 nm, and 1550 nm wavelengths and radiowaves can't touch the speed of light. Fiber will always be faster then 4g unless you have a slow internet connection such as 7 mb/s then it'll run at 7 mb/s just like 4G will. If you set it up for 5 MB/s you're only getting 5 meg transfer rate not 1 gig. I have a degree in electronics (two almost) so I can say first hand it depends on your network speed. While 4G might be more stable for gaming you're still better off getting a PCI or PCI-e wireless adapter or hardwire adapter and hooking it into a modem or whatever. Fiber optic cable (light) > 4G (radio signals)


"radiowaves can't touch the speed of light."

lol? You have a degree in electronics but you don't know that radiowaves and light are both from the EM spectrum which has the same speed but different frequencies?

as far as i know some condition is missing for your statement : vacuum - at space allows this .. here we have ?