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yup, latency is 400-500ms for anything that uses a satellite. this is a physical limit due to the speed of light, nothing any mortal can change. in fact, anything wireless is going to have higher latency than wireline. so do NOT expect <200ms pings for ur fragging ...

also, bad weather -- anything but clear skies -- is going to affect ur bandwidth adversely.
 
This sprint broadband is not satelite. Some friends I know on the west coast have wireless broadbrand and get 25-50ms pings so I was wondering if the sprint broadband would be the same.
 
The Sprint broadband is totally different from Starband or other satellite services. They basically wire up a microwave dish on your house which transmits/receives from a local cell tower. There should be no latency issues at all and conceivably as fast as any direct wire DSL.

I received from info from a company that offers this in my area but the price was just too much. They wanted a 3 year contract for $49/mo at 500kbps and had faster access at higher prices. I just can't see locking myself into a 3 year agreement when two way cable (I have one way right now) or DSL might be coming to my area soon. I might have to check into Sprint's deal to see if it's any better.
 
Just did a fresh ping test (using the DoctorPing on dslreports). It's about the same as I remembered from a test I did earlier. The pings ranged from 44ms to 219ms with the average being 145. The average for all (inc DSL and Cable) users in my area is is 91.4. I don't do any gaming so this is really not a big deal to me. I do see some delays in average page loads but large file downloads are unbelievable. Again, I just hope it holds out.
I only went for the 1 year contract. Even though I'm in a rather urban area there was no cable or good dsl available to my particular neighborhood. Loving it so far.
 
this is a physical limit due to the speed of light, nothing any mortal can change. in fact, anything wireless is going to have higher latency than wireline -saimike

The signal traveling a wireline is also limited due to the speed of light. (nothing can travel faster than light) If anything, wireless should have lower latency for several reasons (that I can think of):

1. The signal travels DIRECTLY to the destination. If you are 20 miles from the transmitter, the signal travels 20 miles. If the signal is sent along the phone/cable lines, it will probably travel 30 miles or more.

2. Less circuitry (signal processing). Wirelines have repeaters every so many miles. That would undoubtedly slow down the transmission.

3. No other traffic on your frequency. You don't have to share your wires with other people. (Ok, I don't know if Sprint devotes a small band of frequency solely to you or not)

4. Sprint will pick the best location to access the internet backbone for a 35 mile radius. (At lease I would hope they would.) This will decrease the number of hops to your destination.

The only thing hindering the Sprint wireless ping time is delay at the transmitter and again at the receiver. Too bad I live 50 miles from civilization instead of 35. Maybe it will work anyway...
 
What company just put up a SUN server in a satellite to see how it would hold up? I guess they are trying to cut that ping time in half. I think you are going to see alot of inventive things over the next year or so.
 
Yeah there'll probably be a Dilbert cartoon or something of someone launching a satellite for internet access with a long cable leading down to the earth...better yet it might be fiber. I can envision it now. How many times do you hear of fiber being cut and disrupting service? In this case fiber being cut might mean the satellite drifting off into space.

Oh well...back to reality again.
 
Yeah the latency is crap on anything satelite... it might be good if your going to download some serious pr0n but other than that you'd be better off just getting DSL even if it is 144/144 or lower. 416 DSL RAWKS. Don't go with Telocity tho... I had a good connection for about 6-7 months but lately it's all crap from them... I would even go with @homo over satelite because having a good connection is all about ping.😀

Manb
 
I hear time warner cable is very good. I should be gettin that pretty soon 2mb downstream and 500k upstream which is good for 40 bux a month. Can somebody give me a zip code as to where the sprint wireless stuff is being offered because its not in my area and I would like to check out some of there billing stuff
 
Pacbell just like to screw with me I think.....everything is setup..we got the lights on from the DSL modem but kept on getting time out errors...I think we have to get a PACBELL technician here....*sign.....still waiting...
 
Saimike, the speed of light isn't really the problem. The speed of light in a vacuum, the &quot;ideal&quot; speed of electricity through a conductor, and the speed of radio waves are all 186K miles/second. I don't know how high these satellites are sitting in orbit, but considering that radio waves can go 186 miles in 1 millisecond then getting the signal there takes all of 1-2 milliseconds. Come to think if it, if the speed of light isn't the problem then I'm not sure what causes the delay... Perhaps the signal needs to go through a couple of terrestrial hops in addition to the one up to the satellite and then back down again.
 
Word of warning
I just cancelled, pacbell DSl after 2months of headaches, 2 techs visiting my house and still no connection and no word of when i will be conneted.
Im about 8200 feet from the station. Their tech support sucks (SBC SERVICES) total morons. Avoid Pac bell, and any body who hired SBC services to handle their dsl services.
Here is the list to Avoid
Pac Bell
Any body usinG
TELCO
AND SBC SERVICES
 
Fwiw, geosynchonous satelites orbit at about 22K+ miles above the earth or about 45K miles just to get a 1-way signal from you to your dest (240 ms). Add another 45K miles for the reply.
 
no, i mean i can get 500kilo Bytes per second (and that is even many hops away)
dsl reports gave me this speed
dslreport

and the dslreport server I used to test my connection is on the other side of the country. it is in CA, I am in GA

pretty fast, A?
like i said before, i theroretically can get 1mega byte per second download, but i cannot find any servers close enough to me and also, but linux firewall is slowing it down, not only because it adds another hop, but because it is a pentium 100mhertz with something wrong that doesn't let me transfer data quickly


anyways...... just wanted to bloat some more

 
Is it true that @home caps at 128kbps? I don't know about that cause i'm on @home and i'm getting about 3175 kbps, gone up to around 4mbits... upload isn't as great, but who ever uploads 🙂
 
OT: For anyone who has Telocity, whats the problem with it? Im scared, my dsl isp just sold its accounts to telocity, and now im scared.
 
generally @home only caps ppl that abuse the bandwidth, and or live in a high bandwidth requirement area...

also it's not really @home that makes the choice... it's the local cable provider.....
 
I work at bby and we had a boardband training a while back and they were saying that we are going to start carring this and also @home


Just something yalll might want to know ..


Send me a pm if you have any comments
 
TonDef:


<< Saimike, the speed of light isn't really the problem. The speed of light in a vacuum, the &quot;ideal&quot; speed of electricity through a conductor, and the speed of radio waves are all 186K miles/second >>


Not quite a true statement, Light or Radio waves only travel at the ultimate speed in outer space or in a vacuum with no conductor. Radio waves always travel at less than the 186+k in a conductor. Just look at the spec's on Coax and ask yourself what does Velocity Factor mean. This is the same reason that a wavelength antenna is quite a bit shorter than a wavelength in free space. But the satelite thing is the transponder time lag in the satelite.
Bleep
 
Why is it that none of these f%^$#ing new services are ever available in MY town first??? < NJ >
They always run these amzing rollout deals and adervtise heavy when its only availble in some remote backwater midwestern town of Bumblefuk, USA ???

This is of no use to me........YET
 
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