Playing over 3G connection?

[Jamison]

I know it'd probably be far from ideal, but I'm curious if anyone has tried playing over a 3G data connection? I'm just curious if it's completely unplayable or not. Down the road, I might consider setting myself up that way just for things like gathering or occasional behests.

[Heithem]

Depends on how stable the connection is. I played from alpha up till the end of Nov on alltel. It was bearable.
also depends on what your use to. I'm out in the sticks, so just getting on is a godsend.
On Alltel I was getting a stable 512KBps which in alpha sucked, was ok by the Release, and pretty good after a couple of patchs.
Crafting you have some lag on the orbs changing color. Gathering with be difficult but not too bad. Graphic card plays more into
Gathering then I taught though. after getting a better card gathering became much easier.

I'm now on Hughesnet because of the Alltel buy-out and it's actually a little better then the Alltel connection was as far as game play.
I get 1.2Mbps but I have that massive travel ping on info going into space and back. But it hasn't really hurt game play at all. It's actually
more stable then the 3G was. I actually have a green connection now best I got on the Alltel was yellow, most the time red. But to be fair
to 3G I was getting the boot from alltel and they were no doubt limiting me because they had to play roaming charge to whoever they sold they had to
sell the tower to.

[Jmeat]

I have played over my Sprint Palm Pre's tethered 3G connection. In my area 3G is only around 400-800K, but as far as playing XIV was concerned, no issues. (Crafted, Grinded, did Behests).

Now downloading updates... yeah that might suck.