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[Ferdinand Schmid]

Rob Riggs wrote:
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> Just an FYI for the list.
> 
> Those ping times are for Sprint Wireless Broadband(tm) only. Other 
> wireless broadband technologies may have significantly different 
> bandwidth and latency characteristics. For instance, the wireless 
> broadband service that I just had installed has fairly stable internal 
> network latency (internal to the ISP) of about 50 - 100ms (depending on 
> time of day), which is about what I saw with ISDN. The service I have 
> uses much smaller cells than Sprint does, which means far fewer people 
> sharing a single set of frequencies. However, the download speed I see 
> is rarely over 100kB/s -- and I'm not complaining about that, having 
> upgraded from 14kB/s.
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Thanks clarifying my posting.  I was hoping Rob would share his experience with his new 
wireless ISP.  The ping times for different wireless ISPs are likely to vary a lot more 
than those for their wired counterparts.
My ping results were no scientific experiment.  The Internet itself can add a significant 
number of milliseconds to the ping time simply for crossing the US.

Ferdinand
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