Call for Submissions: On the road with World of Warcraft
by Lisa Poisso 
Jul 23rd 2010 at 9:00AM
WoW.com is accepting article submissions on playing WoW on the road. Submissions should be between 750 and 1,000 words. We will not accept articles submitted under player names or pen names; please use your full, real name and email. Artwork is not mandatory, but any you choose to include must be your own work or from creative commons.
Unfortunately, the Seed program currently only allows us to accept submissions from individuals living in the United States. As much as we would love to make Seed available internationally, Seed.com accounts currently are not supported by non-US IP addresses; it really is as simple as that. We hope the platform will be closer to readiness for international access later this year. Check www.seed.com or the Seed blog for updates.
Ready to submit? Read up about our guest post program, then sign up for Seed and submit your article here. (You won't see the article page unless you have a Seed account.) We'll accept submissions for this assignment until 11:59 p.m. EST on Thurs., July 29. Good luck and good writing!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ishammel Jul 23rd 2010 9:42AM
"please use your full, real name"
Should that read... "please use your full, realID name"
Let me be the first to say I'm looking forward to this article!
Marcosius Jul 23rd 2010 9:44AM
Not going to write an article but I can say that the lag tends to be from bad to worse if you use wireless DSL. Mines from 200ms (at best) -1100+ms (everytime you go to Dalaran) depending on what hardware is available on the link tower.
Krz Jul 23rd 2010 11:06AM
Yeah, Australian lag is bad...
Oh, you said Wireless DSL. Sorry.
Marcosius Jul 23rd 2010 11:13AM
I'm not sure of the correct terms in english, I suppose it's not DSL at all but this fairly new thing (for the average consumer) - mobile broadband - that is taking advantage of UMTS networks, basicly it links with cellphone towers and has a theoretical top speed of 15Mb/s. The latency is still way bad, certainly not recommendable for any enthusiastic FPS -player.
Tinwhisker Jul 23rd 2010 10:19AM
Yeah, latency in hotels is a killer. Most hotels do not want to pay for the capability to actually support all the traffic they invite. "Free High Speed Internet" is almost always a lie. There's rarely, if ever, anything that's high speed about it.
I've stayed in some really high end suites too and it's no better there. The best latency I've ever seen in a hotel is ~300ms; most times it's >3000ms.
vaeevictiss Jul 23rd 2010 10:56AM
I'm totally going to try to submit an article. My job has me traveling a lot and me and my asus have WoW'ed on 4 continents, about 10-11 different countries and about 20 states in the US. Ive experienced everything from awesome internet to unplayable lol.
NooK Jul 23rd 2010 1:55PM
I tend to travel on a global scale relatively often. Unfortunately I cannot write an article cause I am in europe but I thought I'd give some thoughts on my experience.
If you're staying on a hotel it is not so uncommon with internet (Not all countries though) but often I stay at rented houses instead which not always tend to have internet depending on the country.
Due to the fact that games are not something often liked in companies laptops I opted to run Linux (More specifically Ubuntu) out of a private external hard drive. This allows me to use all the processing power and perks of my company's laptop while giving me the freedom to do whatever what I want since all data is stored from and to the external drive and nothing is kept on the internal drive.
This also keeps me of course from bringing a separate laptop just for wow which would be a pain.
Getting wow to run on linux is relatively easy and it works just fine except for a few issues (Such as not having hardware cursor functionality although they are finally adding that for cataclysm) but nothing game changing.
As for the internet connection, from my experience (It's not that big compared to many since I have only been travelling for the company for 2 years now) if you have internet connection it tends to be enough for at least a bit of playing, be it slightly laggy or no lag however don't always expect to run instances/raid though.
Syael Jul 23rd 2010 4:04PM
4 years ago my family and i decided to move to alaska.... My best friend was left in the the east coast. We stayed connected with each other through calling, and runescape (because we thought it was cool), and then runescape got boring and we stopped calling and playing with each other for 4 months.. then one day he calls me and tells me to get WoW and i said sure! we have been playing together on the same server with all my other friends and it has helped me stay connected with him =D. He has left WoW once then came back a month later. i must thank WoW for allowing me to go back to visist him last summer.
Darkvil Aug 4th 2010 11:46AM
Well I travel and in hotels every week,
I wow and raid in the week no problem if you know whats going on.
I use a macBook Pro new one with the separate graphics card, works amazing for wow.
I use vent but through cross over running the windows client for the codec, works fine.
I find the big hotels to be a problem, if you are in a hotel with wifi and they have 500 rooms or more it will always be a problem, as the the big chains pay for a managed service, which is a modest pipe that is traffic shaped and load shared across all the concurrent users, so at 7:00pm the performance is bad I have seem latency of 5000ms.
Also the larger hotels tend to have more business guests which are heavy wifi users.
So I go for the small high class country hotels, higher level of service, no more than 50 - 80 rooms, and they tend to have a lower number of business guests, so I always get about 6Mb and 50-100ms max latency (usually lower) on wifi which is perfect for raiding.
:) happy raiding.