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 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
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in theory, a cellular broadband connection could have latency just as low as fiber, cable, and DSL (provided the tower wasn't being used by an INSANE amount of people at the same time). Sadly, the cell-towers are not optimized for internet usage, so you end up getting around 350 ms ping times with 1xRTT networks.
Luckily Sprint is upgrading all their towers (slowly) so that it's more optimized for internet usage. I'd say that this will truly be the savior of the rural people who are in the boonies, but still well within range of a cell phone tower (as is my case...where I have 5 bar coverage with Sprint, Cingular, and Verizon at my house). It will allow you to have a true broadband connection with low latency.
Supposedly their entire network is going to be upgraded with EVDO Revision A by summer to mid-summer...but we all know how well companies are at projecting things. |
