Fixed Wireless Latency

[danzig]

My favorite local ISP will have their fixed wireless system ready in about a month . I was wandering what kind of pings I should expect (I know it depends on a bunch 'o variables) . Our ISP has plenty of capacity(quite a few T-1's,currently serving dial up customers) , as there are only 40,000 people in the whole county , and much less than that will have access to any tower the ISP will use ( this area is hilly and mountainous) . I was really looking forward to having some decent gaming with some local folks with something faster than a 26,400 dial up and 300 pings and hope this will be it . I hate to fork out the $$$ for ISDN , which the only other near reasonbly priced pseudo broadband available here .

 

[whalen]

I would guess your pings wouldn't be much (if any) better than w/ dial up...kinda the same thing as with Satallite ISP's except to a lesser extent...just a hunch though.

 

[ktwebb]

Not at all. Satellite is only analogous to 802.11b in that they both use Radio. RF travels at the speed of light. Even a long run, 6 or 7 miles, you should see 20-60 ms pings from wireless device to wireless device. How that translates to the overall connection, with their router solution, extra wireless hops, how good the link to the tower is, etc... I couldn't say. Depends on how good a job they did engineering your link as well as their own wired and wireless infrastructure.

 

[danzig]

I currently use DirecPC down , latency sucks , to say the least . Not unusual to go over 1 second . Downloads are nice , but that d@mn f.a.p. sucks a$$ .

As far as my link to them , it will be close . The mountain where their antenna will be located is only 1-1/2 miles from me and unobstructed line of sight . Their routing equipment and such is made by Cisco , I have a neighbor who works for them . His ISDN is pretty good for gaming , I have played UT with it and 100 (give or take a few) pings on some servers .