Fox McCloud
Crazy like a fox.
join:2006-07-23
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Re: 10 years....
that's nice and all (I read over it briefly), but it's quite useless if the companies don't have the bandwidth to back it up.
From my experience, nearly all cellphone towers have 1 or 2 T1 lines to them; as the technology currently stands, things are pretty much maxed out; one more upgrade (whether it be Revision B, WiMAX, or whatever) and the towers will be stretched to their maximum capacity.
Right now, I think the mobile broadband industry needs to focus on a way which it can get latency on par with that of DSL and cable; once they do that, THEN focus on increasing bandwidth. |
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hitman_001
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join:2006-11-20
Laredo, TX
| I think they are doing a fairly good job with latency so far. Your're right, it isnt on par with Cable or DSL yet, but its getting there pretty quickly. 1xrtt provides latency from 300ms and up, the Revision A upgrade brought it down in the 100ms range. Revision B/C and perhaps Wimax will push that down even further, we'll have to wait and see I suppose. But I think the latency is coming down on par with the speed increase. I know the latency REV A provides, I'll be happy to see for some time to come, once it gets here.
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Fox McCloud
Crazy like a fox.
join:2006-07-23
·Embarq
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| yeah, I know exactly what you mean (I get 100 ms latency when pinging Google and around 140-200 ms latency when on Battlefield 2). With QoS in place, it could be, consistently, as low as 70-80 ms.
I'd say if they can consistently get the latency to 50-60ms, they'll be doing very very well.
Still, my point is, while they come out with new bandwidth technologies, they're really not the great; they'll have to put in massive amounts of money into their towers in order for users to get the increased speeds. |
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PastTense5
join:2007-05-15 | Could someone explain the reasons for the latency differences? |
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Fox McCloud
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join:2006-07-23
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| said by PastTense5  :Could someone explain the reasons for the latency differences? between what and what, exactly? |
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forefun
join:2004-04-21
Austin, TX | reply to Fox McCloud
Amen on the Latency!!! |
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skrupowies
join:2002-08-22
Wallingford, CT
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Most cell carriers today do, in fact, have only T-1 service. However, AT&T's approach is to provision these T-1's from an on-site fiber mux because the industry forecast is to upgrade cell sites to DS3 / Ethernet / OC-3. So when the carriers are ready for that upgrade AT&T will be as well. |
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