Broadband Question

[Pacfanweb]

Is broadband wireless internet access any good for gaming, or, like satellite, is it susceptible to high pings?

 

[MojoJojo]

If you're talking about the "dish" it only downloads at those sweet speeds.
You still need a modem to upload. Horrible for games. Great for files.

 

[crab]

no you dont

 

[Cable God]

ping times still suck from what I've heard

 

[bigbootydaddy]

he is right about the dish stuff.

 

[RevVveD1]

Satellite services do not always require a phoneline to upload. Some satellite systems provide both up and down. I was looking at one recently that offers up to 750k down, and 150k up... and runs 79.95 a month... For now, I will stick to cable..

 

[dabuddha]

you still have the ~1/2 second delay on sending information up to the satellite

 

[Yzzim]

I don't think he's talking about satelite, not sure what it's called besides wireless internet though. My town wants to setup wireless internet and I heard it takes $30,000 to get everything started and then $10,000 for every relay station within so many miles.

Not sure how it is for gaming, but my boss uses it at his house and get's around 75kb/sec downloading his pr0n.

 

[warcleric]

Here we have a company offering microwave burstable T1 for $250 setup and $175/month with 14 IP addresses....perhaps this is what he is talking about.

 

[Cable God]

Hey Chris, you're talking about Lightspeed right? I called 'em up and they didn't want to go into much detail about it. I know bluestar.net has business DSL here in Columbus now. I also heard thay Ma Bell is coming down veteran's parkway installing DSL DSLAM's getting ready to roll out residential DSL.

 

[Pacfanweb]

I meant the wireless internet, not satellite. It's coming soon around here and I wondered if you got really bad pings like satellite. I guess it's basically a 2-way radio for your computer. I was hoping the pings would be better since the signal doesn't have to travel 26,000 miles up and down like satellites.

 

[Cheapster]

Wireless doesn't sound stable enough for me. You'll get better download/upload with a cable modem, plus weather won't be a factor.

 

[Viper GTS]

Here we have a company offering microwave burstable T1 for $250 setup and $175/month with 14 IP addresses....

Where would I go to look for something like this? If I did this, & then used one of the internet phone services... I could get a free T1 out of the deal!

Viper GTS