Playing on 4g LTE Mobile Broadband

Nosnide·2/3/2016, 7:49:35 PM·1 votes·4,951 views

I'm undergoing training at AIT currently, and apparently my barracks does not provide internet service. However, I'd still like to play my favorite game, and the only game I play anymore League of Legends so I've been trying to figure out how I'm gunna make it work.

I quickly ran into mobile broadband. The issue there is its more expensive then home broadband and the latency would definitely not be as great as I might want or need it to be. I was thinking I could get a good device and purchase an antenna for it so the latency improves.

I also went ahead and looked up data/match and came to the conclusion that it's an estimated 50-100MB/match. I'm pretty sure I could play at least 10 matches/GB of data. I'd probably only play 10 matches in a whole week so I should be fine with 4GB dedicated to playing matches. I should add another 2GB for the patches, and probably another 4GB for browsing (no streaming). So I should be ok with only 10GB of data.

With a good device such as the Verizon jetpack MiFi 6620L + an antenna for better latency, do you think my ping could be <150? My coverage with Verizon on my Samsung Galaxy S5 is 4G LTE 2/4 bars with 17/2 Mbps.

TL;DR: Has anyone ever played LoL on a 4G LTE Mobile Broadband network? Do you think 10GB of data is plenty enough for both playing approx. 40 matches/month (10/wk) and doing regular browsing (no streaming)? With a good device such as the Verizon jetpack MiFi 6620L + an antenna for better latency, do you think my ping could be <150? My coverage with Verizon on my Samsung Galaxy S5 is 4G LTE 2/4 bars with 17/2 Mbps.

2 Comments

xBushx2/4/2016, 1:46:09 PM2 votes

League uses next to no Data to play(your data number seems really high)...I suggest playing a game and gauging it live.