Telstra’s Gigabit Class LTE Network

Post by kayoone » Thu, Mar 23, 2017, 6:14 AM UTC

ferongr wrote: post #27

kayoone wrote: post #23

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Modern LTE latency is comparable to DSL/Cable at <=30ms in many cases. Sure fiber latency is lower, but until that is available to the same amount of people as DSL/Cable the mobile technology will have advanced too. Online gaming and streaming is totally fine over a LTE connection, the only problem is bandwidth caps. (This might not apply to professional gamers, but i consider those a niche)

30ms is abysmal.

It's totally fine for any kind of realtime online interactions though, unless you are a super competitive gamer, but even then many do not have access to fiber and still do well Also note that i am saying "lower than or equal", my current LTE connection gives me 18ms ping to nearby locations, same as my cable connection.

Post by ux-app » Thu, Mar 23, 2017, 6:21 AM UTC

jen729w wrote: post #38

ux-app wrote: post #36

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Those are quite poor speeds. I'm with Optus with a 4G connection and just did a speed test on my Galaxy S7 80Mbps down!! wow I was surprised to see this. I thought my home 30Mbps cable connection was good 20Mbps up, this was an even bigger shock. I'm only on about 2Mbps up on my home connection. 90ms latency from Adelaide to Sydney which seems pretty good too.

Wow! Where are you? Local congestion is obviously a massive factor with 4G speeds. I'm at my office in Melbourne's south eastern suburbs, where connections - everyone's, irrespective of telco - seem to be poor.

yeah I was quite surprised too. I knew the internet felt speedy when I tethered to my phone, but never bothered doing a speedtest before.

I'm in Adelaide and the test was done about 10km from the CBD

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