Sub 30 pings on Wireless connection?

[damocles]

A new ISP has come to my country (NZ). Their name is Walker Wireless and one of their staff was telling me their service would offer sub 30 gaming pings?

"Walker Wireless has established a network of 'radio nodes' or transmitter points on top of tall buildings, towers and natural high points.The customer has a simple, small antenna on their building facing the nearest node plus a small, low powered radio transmitter."

This sounds like BS to me, i mean surely a WINX OS would nobble it anyway?

 

[Mark R]

I don't see why it shouldn't work as described. The only thing that you should be concerned about it contention - how many people do they plan on connecting per transmitter, and how much bandwidth does each transmitter have.

Similarly, the OS has very little impact on network throughput - Windows has actually had a pretty decent network subsystem ever since Windows 95.

 

[dennilfloss]

I could see this as possible only if it is two-way wireless. With one-way wireless you have to still use a modem to send the URL to a local station and they send it and you receive the incoming signal from them. The upload of the URL via a modem would definitely increase your ping AFAIK.

I may upgrade to one-way wireless from my ISP as soon as I move ($20can more per month than my current package which is paid for until August 3rd 2001).

 

[damocles]

It is 2 way apparently.
I have satellite (as of today) which is sat d/l modem u/l. Speeds are great, but pings are modem like