kati1337
2020-08-26 13:21:09
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On the Internet via LTE:
(Quote stolen from the internet from a Mr. Raijin of Computerbase).
That sums it up pretty well.
Of course, you don’t know in advance how loaded your cell tower is. Gaming becomes frustrating with a ping beyond 50. Unless you’re playing Hello Kitty Island Adventures.
Basically, you can play games over LTE as long as the bandwidth and ping allow it. Both factors depend on the respective cell tower and its current load. Beyond that, it also depends on the game itself. A standard game only establishes outgoing connections to a game server. This is no problem over LTE, as it is effectively no different from loading a page in a browser. Modern games, and especially gaming consoles, also establish connections directly between consoles, for example for voice chats. This implies that the connection is outgoing on one console and incoming on the other. Incoming connections require port forwarding because an internet router shields the local network from the internet via NAT. This is where UPnP literally "comes into play."
Port forwarding or UPnP only works if the router is also accessible from outside. With mobile networks, this is usually not the case because the LTE router itself sits behind a large router at the provider's end. This means that if the provider does not create port forwarding on its router to the LTE router, the LTE router is also not accessible from outside. UPnP doesn't help either, because UPnP is nothing more than automatically created port forwarding done without the user's intervention and, above all, without the user knowing(!).
Depending on the game, it may also detect that you are not behind your own public IP address and therefore port forwarding doesn't work. In that case, with some luck, another player or console is designated as a temporary server. If that doesn't work, there are connection problems. This shows, for example, on the Playstation in the party where you cannot hear player XY but you can hear others. --> Message "NAT issues."
Long story short: gaming behind an LTE router can work, but it depends on what you are playing and how. The Playstation itself needs ports for proper operation, independent of the game. These are the PSN ports, over which the mentioned party runs. However, it may be that a game has its own in-game voice chat that then works. Unfortunately, there is no universally valid answer, it depends on the details.
(Quote stolen from the internet from a Mr. Raijin of Computerbase).
That sums it up pretty well.
Of course, you don’t know in advance how loaded your cell tower is. Gaming becomes frustrating with a ping beyond 50. Unless you’re playing Hello Kitty Island Adventures.