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Wireless and gaming

There is a possiblity of wireless coming to my area. I have a question though:

Anyone know how the ping rates are with wireless? Is it reasonable to expect to be able to play online games via wireless? How do those pings/packet losses compare to 56k/ISDN and ADSL?

thanks
Tony
 
first thing you need to find out is = is it sky based? or landline based?

if it sky based then there is no hope - ping's of 750ms and up!
- well above 56k!

if it's based from a landline then i'm not sure but i think ping's are a lot lower - i think they are close to ADSL - but not sure


broadband4u.biz are about to come to my area but are sky based!!

i wont be getting them as i'm mainly a gamer (high ping's)

but for everything else they would be great - fast download - always on - no dial up - and leave ur BT phone line free to make/recive calls
 
802.11b pings around 3-4ms. This even holds true on a 5km link. If you go over two wireless hops, the ping will be around 6-8ms.

The real question though, is the backhaul. If it's leased line, you're looking at potential pings averageing 15ms - better than ADSL. If it's ADSL for backhaul (which it commonly is with the smaller WISPs), then likely around 30-40ms, maybe more, depending on load - probably still playable. However, if the backhaul is satellite, which is also shockingly common, the pings will be in the order of seconds; no chance of gaming at all.

I've played games here over wireless, connected back to my cable modem. On the wired network, I ping around 25ms in game, and wireless, around 30ms. There is no noticable difference in game, so which I use is a matter of convenience. So, draw your own conclusions from that.
 
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