EVDO Day 6: Gaming

I know several of you have been waiting for this report on the EVDO. Can it handle the speeds necessary to play a good old game of World of Warcraft? The answer is... about 75% of the time, yes. I've been playing WoW over the past week on EVDO and it works pretty well for the most part. The latency has been in the 180-345ms range, although it has dipped much slower at various times (the worst was 1498ms latency). This morning, I played for an hour and a half in the green with minimal latency issues. I completed two quests! Weeeee!

However, on other days, I've played in the yellow for quite a bit with a few buggy occurences. One day, I got fully stuck on a piece of furniture in one of the villages and could run, but didn't actually move anywhere. Then another day, while playing in the red, I was wondering where all the bad guys I was supposed to be slaying had gone, only to find the villages and everywhere else completely devoid of life.