[Sliver] Is Sprint ION good for gaming?

edited August 2001 in Gaming

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  • edited December 1969
    Latency? Lag? Anything?

    I don't know what ION is, just that it's not DSL. SWBell fairly sucks, so I'm looking to bail. And a whole new phone system + 8 MB connect sounds mighty fine. But unless it's at least as good as DSL for gaming, it's a no go.

    S
  • edited December 1969
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    [quote]
    Latency? Lag? Anything?

    I don't know what ION is, just that it's not DSL. SWBell fairly
    sucks, so I'm looking to bail. And a whole new phone system + 8
    MB connect sounds mighty fine. But unless it's at least as good
    as DSL for gaming, it's a no go.

    S

    [/quote]
    http://www.dslreports.com/forum/clec,ion

    There's one long thread about Sprint abandoning ION, but nothing has been decided yet. Another thread talks about gaming. Apparently the advantage with ION is better latency numbers, something that has been a problem with my otherwise beautiful, excellent, gorgeous (can you tell I like it?) cable modem connection.

    g'luck!

    - F

    [url=http://bs.bungie.org/]Bungie Sightings[/url]
  • edited December 1969
    kick ass, tnx! [nt]


  • edited December 1969
    is this related to "Sprint Broadband"?

    If so, run, do not walk, away from it.

    I have a friend with it who was unable to get any sympathy from sprint customer service when he complained of 20% packet loss. Apparently that's within acceptable tolerance for sprint broadband.

    Plus his latencies, even off-peak, vary from tens to thousands of milliseconds depending on the phase of the moon.

    Apparently they're overbooking their bandwidth in his area. Sucks.

    _/ C (still at 56k :-(

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