EQ2 in Afghanistan - Page 2

tearec · 08-21-2009, 12:49 PM

I kind of expected that any connection from a location in Afghanistan would be too slow or too much lag to actually go out and raid or group. I was more curious about just being able to log in, chat w/ some folks, and at least try to retain a presence.

Since nothing the Army has been doing with me lately has been to my benefit, I will probably be deploying right about the time the next expansion goes live, thus leaving my characters a whole tier behind on levels, gear, and AA.

Golur · 08-21-2009, 05:40 PM

There is a decent cellular service in most of the 'inhabited' areas of Afg, but whether you can use it is another matter. I'm Brit, and we ban the use of private mobile phones on security and common sense grounds - too many cases of wives being told the bad news by other wives, before the proper people can get there - not good..........

But it is good to be able even to log onto Flames, just to keep track of things, and join in the general abuse, even if you can't play

GREGORE · 08-22-2009, 05:59 AM

I am posting this from Afghanistan right now! To answer your question, it depends on how your MWR on your FOB/COP is ran. As long as they have a place for you to bring in your own PC to hook up to the internet, you should be good. Not all MWRs are set up to allow this though. Some only have existing CPUs hooked up to the internet. The last time I was over here, you could purchase monthly internet if you were lucky enough to be at Bagram. Not sure if that's still available. I wasn't able to play the first five months over here this time, but have been able to for the last month and for the forseeable future. The problem I'm having is that these other soldiers are whining that I'm taking their bandwith in the MWR, so I was told that I can only play late at night when hardly anybody else is using the MWR. I was doing that anyways, because they were stealing my bandwith as well (but I didn't whine about it), but that wasn't good enough for them. So I sleep right after dinner, come in to play EQ2 at midnight or 1AM, play to four or 5AM, and go back to bed for three more hours. The lag is usually not to bad. I don't craft due to the lag, but I can fight and group up with guildies. PUGs probably wouldn't appreciate your lag, so getting groups outside of your guild may be hard. I wouldn't try it. I mainly focus on soloing quests, solo shard run, and doing guild duo grey shard runs. Good luck. It sucks to have to give this game up along with everything else we do during deployments.

Acknar · 08-22-2009, 08:33 AM

As some have said before it really depends how your base is setup and what type of arrangement they have. I was there in 2002 up in kandahar and we had a lease with Nero Stratus/TS2 for a few 512k H channel links(64k channels multiplexed). I was able to play a bit with the 128k uplink and 256k down bwidth side channels. You will get a bit of packet loss as they have mentioned, but it really depends on the quality of the service. Ill toss up a link from TS2 that we have used in the past.

Satellite Wireless Internet Access in Afghanistan

Good luck over there!