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Originally posted by jennycards
1) Ping has little meaning for "regular" applications like web browsing, e-mail, video. It MAY mean something to hard gamers who could lose a game because their "reaction" comes too slow.
2) A pingt time of 50-100 ms is nothing to worry about.
3) I wouldn't pay $135 a month for my internet connection ... that is far too expensive. You can't find anything cheaper?
4) Wireless is ALWAYS less reliable than "wired".
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It's either wireless or satellite. Satellite = $99 if you don't buy all the shit upfront, and requires a 12 month contract.
Wireless = faster, most definately better pings and whatnot.
The reason I am asking about ping is indeed because of gaming, I have no doubt it will suit my fancy for the business side of things, but I do enjoy FPS gaming and I haven't been able to partake in it much as of late because of the horridness of my 56k modem ;)
Another reason of asking about ping is because generally I would assume that when it takes 50ms to get around once you get in their network, they most likely have a networking problem or an oversold service (at least this is my assumption, probably totally wrong).
Anything above a 100 ping is also very high when your talking about a traceroute from a t1+ connection to an ISP. For instance, tracerouting from my webservers which generally get pings of 10-30 almost everywhere, and this isps domain alone gets 130.. that leads to some questions ;)