OK, maybe I'm a bit paranoid (which doesn't mean that they Aren't out to get me) but seems to me that people who care about security never used M$ passport.
Gaming requires low LATENCY more than high BANDWIDTH. Everyone is touting high bandwidth, but I have not seen any latency numbers. Voice communication requires a latency of around 150ms to be considered high quality. Sprint has been usually a bit worse than than, but not by much. So if playing Quake 3 with a ping time of 215 is better than you have now, Great! Otherwise, you're better off with a land line.:(
The price gets even better for people who don't live in broadband-available areas. Now the money that they have been paying anyway for their cell phones can substitute for the dial-up they were also buying. With their phones getting better bandwidth then their desktops, the $20.00 per month to AOL can go away. So dial-up bursts to 56k for $20 becomes bursts to 144k for money that they were spending already anyway.
At Last!
My sprint account rep has been talking about this all year with the "As soon as the announcement comes, I can say more" routine. Now its time to see if it is worth all of the fuss.
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So who is it that cares?
Gaming requires low LATENCY more than high BANDWIDTH. Everyone is touting high bandwidth, but I have not seen any latency numbers. Voice communication requires a latency of around 150ms to be considered high quality. Sprint has been usually a bit worse than than, but not by much. So if playing Quake 3 with a ping time of 215 is better than you have now, Great! Otherwise, you're better off with a land line. :(
Cool eh?
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At Last! My sprint account rep has been talking about this all year with the "As soon as the announcement comes, I can say more" routine. Now its time to see if it is worth all of the fuss.
I know that they are seperate organizations, but does anybody know if SonicBlue is going along with this for their boxes too?