Yesterday, after about 30 minutes configuring ICS, bluetooth tethering and Windows XP port forwarding, I went online with a prepaid account with an allowance of 50 megs and funded with 500 Naira for a sole purpose: To determine whether or not, as has been alleged by certain people, online gaming has indeed come to Nigeria in an affordable way. You probably know what the answer is already (since I took the pain to explain my setup, heh heh…) but this is such exciting news that I feel I need to drag my verdict out a little…, just to add a bit of drama!

I actually used MTN's 3G connection, which can be seen detailed on my blog here:

http://www.portlagos.com/?p=12

For the techie geeks, pinging the central dns is a consistent sub-300ms value, so games can be played online at acceptable (not prime) quality!!!!

Followed ur link, brilliant!!!. I use swift broadband and for mk vs dc universe, it is riddled with lag even with an excellent connection icon. For pes 2010, don't even attempt it but for uncharted 2, it is basically lag-free and utterly awesome although it might take a while to connect. All this is on the PSN. For the 360, I play GoW2 and it's ok for the most part. I think this basically has sth to do with the fact that PSN and Xbox Live don't have dedicated servers in this part of the world.

I was in sweden a while ago and enjoyed gaming heaven there. Nice Analytical write-up. Kudos

all games play online flawlessly