Hopefully my latency will be no more than 70ms - 100ms at most. I am only going to use it for online gaming, as for downloads or streaming online I may ask my parents if I can continue to use their connection for that or look into getting Excede satellite internet as a secondary solution since they have an unlimited late night free zone.
I have sprint, and I'm not sure but I think I might have been grandfathered in
@ED2
Probably.
@Xtreme
I highly doubt your latency will be that good. We will see.
Well I'll have the best device they offer (I think), the mobile 3G/4G hotspot. If latency isn't too good then it might be because of distance and signal strength, the latter can probably be remedied if I can hook a decent antenna to it. I won't know how it will perform or what I can do with it until Monday or Tuesday. I already went through and disabled automatic updates for my games on Steam, Windows and software updates.
According to the tests I did on my phone the latency wasn't that bad, I dunno if it has anything to do with 4g tho (perhaps indirectly)
4G can have substantially less latency than 3G. How did you test the latency?
Just a simple internet speed test app
(12-15-2013, 10:12 AM)Xtreme2damax Wrote: [ -> ]Well I'll have the best device they offer (I think), the mobile 3G/4G hotspot. If latency isn't too good then it might be because of distance and signal strength, the latter can probably be remedied if I can hook a decent antenna to it. I won't know how it will perform or what I can do with it until Monday or Tuesday. I already went through and disabled automatic updates for my games on Steam, Windows and software updates.
If it's 3G, you should be looking at a modem/stick that supports DC-HSPA+. It can get you twice the speed of HSPA+ granted the station already supports it. Otherwise, most 4G Sticks support DC-HSPA+ anyways.