Wireless Gaming: Neotel

and how much of the available spectrum of a tower does 3G LTE use?.. how many concurrent connections can the tower sustain before being congested?
 
Millions and billions of them... Trust me, these mobile guys are smart - they know what they are doing. Pretty much like Morse and Bell who worked on those wired systems you fancy.

Just look at the massive speed increases they got going from CSD to HSCSD to GPRS to EDGE, and it was all just more advanced software using the spectrum at hand more effectively.
 
Yea, and all the while spectrum usage over fiber also increases. By the time LTE will offer 100Mbps, Japan will install 10Gbps lines to their homes :(

And those lines will really reach 10Gbps, not some theoretical maximum...
 
So you have manufacturers spec that says a tower running 3G LTE equipment can sustain millions and billions of concurrent connections before being congested?

Did you also notice the massive decrease in tower footprint when they went from CSD to HSCSD to GPRS to EDGE to 3G to HSDPA? hmmmm?
 
Ok, so please do provide a link to these manufacturers specification documents that statement categorically that a single 3G LTE tower can handle millions and billions of concurrent connections without congesting.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Ok, so please do provide a link to these manufacturers specification documents that statement categorically that a single 3G LTE tower can handle millions and billions of concurrent connections without congesting.
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They have a general rule of thumb that if one tower does not cut it, add another - so we can have millions and billions of concurrent connections to millions and billions of towers - easy :p
 
Ok, that is not actually answering my question....

I was clearly talking about ONE tower... plus of course you can't just keep adding towers, they will start interfering with each other eventually, and spectrum is limited.. so 3g LTE MAY be able to provide theoretical speeds of 100Mbps+.. but how much of the spectrum does it need to provide those speeds to a single user...
 
Just to clarify - my sarcasm failed horribly in this thread so I think I should put the record straight.

I don't like wireless for gaming, I use ADSL. I also don't believe gamers are "kids".
 
Cloud said:
Just to clarify - my sarcasm failed horribly in this thread so I think I should put the record straight.

I don't like wireless for gaming, I use ADSL. I also don't believe gamers are "kids".
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Yeah, not many noticed (well, those that posted didn't). :rolleyes:

+1 to the rest of your post too.
 
Rocket-Boy said:
Blah blah blah, you must be referrinf to people who run around in rpg type games hitting bunnies with sticks. There is no way that wireless will be able to have the same latency(yes kids this is about latency) as a wired connection.

Wireless is a viable last mile technology if it is done correctly and for certain slower paced games and normal browers.

I have a HSUPA enable 3G setup at home and I get an average of 150ms pings to local game servers, when I was on a 384k line then I was getting around 60ms. So maybe you should go do some internet research about latency and then come back to try and argue your invalid points.
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Maybe you guys should start looking at the specialist wireless telecoms guys like Screamer WiMAX who actually "tune" your connection over a week and then you get the kind of performance I get on my 1 Mb connection.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/373283851.png

The mass market Neohells, Vodacons and Telscums spend more on advertising than on keeping their promises.
 
Ahhh yes, and then a company like Screamer gets too many clients and doesn't have the backbone connectivity to support them properly and your connection turns into an iburps clone...
 
ToxicBunny said:
Ahhh yes, and then a company like Screamer gets too many clients and doesn't have the backbone connectivity to support them properly and your connection turns into an iburps clone...
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Been with them for 3,5 months and nothing's changed...yet:D
 
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