Captain Pooka
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Hey guys,
I moved out into the country a few months ago and - I need the internet!
Right now I'm using a 3g virgin mobile card. My ping (at good times) is about 200ms. It can jump up to in the 10k+ ms range sometimes - that's no good. I'm more concerned with the latency than the speed - but the speed seems good. About .75-1.3Mb/s
I can't deal with the latency out here like that, and the download speeds suck period. I was thinking about getting a booster for this card, but I don't think that would be very effective. I live about a mile out past town - probably .8 miles from the nearest house with cable (or dsl.. just a guess) and there are no obstacles in the way.. maybe a small tree. You think making a friend and briding a connection would work OK? Dsl usually runs at 50ms at 3Mb/s around here. Bridging that over a mile.. how do you think that would affect the latency? Or is it even worth my time...
Thanks,
-Q
I moved out into the country a few months ago and - I need the internet!
Right now I'm using a 3g virgin mobile card. My ping (at good times) is about 200ms. It can jump up to in the 10k+ ms range sometimes - that's no good. I'm more concerned with the latency than the speed - but the speed seems good. About .75-1.3Mb/s
I can't deal with the latency out here like that, and the download speeds suck period. I was thinking about getting a booster for this card, but I don't think that would be very effective. I live about a mile out past town - probably .8 miles from the nearest house with cable (or dsl.. just a guess) and there are no obstacles in the way.. maybe a small tree. You think making a friend and briding a connection would work OK? Dsl usually runs at 50ms at 3Mb/s around here. Bridging that over a mile.. how do you think that would affect the latency? Or is it even worth my time...
Thanks,
-Q