How to throttle/ lower bandwidth on phone?

[iNoToRi0uS]

Want to use my Verizon phone for tethering on PC for gaming. I want low ping, I'm not worried about bandwidth.
In an area with no internet, so this is all I have.
Is it possible to throttle the phone to lower data usage while keeping the low ping time on 4g?

 

[mikedt]

Don't think you can, not just on the phone. There's apps to keep a check on how much data is being consumed, but those are to try and stop you going over your monthly usage quota, and not to restrict bandwidth. You can certainly do it with WiFi routers, restrict bandwidth, prioritise certain types of data packet etc.

Don't know if you could ask Verizon to throttle your bandwidth for you, but that might not necessarily result in a lower ping time. Also ping times with wireless cellular data can be rather unpredictable compared to DSL, cable or fibre internet.

I did try some online gaming activities, Second Life, with cellular data in the UK, and it wasn't particularly satisfactory because the unpredictable ping time was a factor. But I stopped playing that completely when I moved to China, 400-500mS ping times to the US.

 

[chanchan05]

The only way I could think of is to turn off sync for all other apps that may use data (Google sync, email, Facebook, chat apps, etc) while playing.