Fiber Cable ISP vs WiMax (Gaming & Ping)

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Hi. So we are going to change our ISP from WiMAX ISP to Fiber Cable ISP, but we WONT be changing the download/upload speed.

So my question is, are we going to have less ping in games even though we haven't changed the speed? Also, is it going to affect the ping by too much if we download something (Youtube, file etc..) while playing?

If both download speeds are the same, then what does actually differ between Fiber connections and WiMAX connections?

I know the question is dumb, but I am not that good with networking.

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It should be greatly better. WiMax has a huge first hop latency mostly because of all the overhead in making the connection mobile. You generally get more consistent throughput because the ISP has much more bandwidth to share between all the users on a physical connection. Of course the WiMax is much faster if you were using it in your car as you drive down the street.

Now if you were going from WiMax to say LTE it would be a tougher call , you really can't compare a cell based broadband system to any form of wired connection.
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It should be greatly better. WiMax has a huge first hop latency mostly because of all the overhead in making the connection mobile. You generally get more consistent throughput because the ISP has much more bandwidth to share between all the users on a physical connection. Of course the WiMax is much faster if you were using it in your car as you drive down the street.

Now if you were going from WiMax to say LTE it would be a tougher call , you really can't compare a cell based broadband system to any form of wired connection.
 
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WiMax can provide up to 70M bit/sec of throughput over several miles in the unlicensed or licensed bands. While there are vendors with early pre-standard implementations available, the industry is looking towards the end of 2005 for the general availability of Wi-Max radios based on the first generation of WiMax silicon. So if your bandwidth requirements are on the order of 50M bit/sec. and the distance between the two points you are trying to connect are on the order of 10 miles, WiMax may be a good solution. In general, no wireless technology - including WiMax - will provide the same bandwidth or reliability available over a fiber cable. But then again, you do not need to dig a trench to get your WiMax link up and running.
 
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Where did you cut and paste this from. WiMax is very dead technology except for some african countries and I suspect it will be dead there also. Only Sprint implemented WiMax with partner Clear. They did not have the money to widely implement it. Sprint has already stated they are going to the more common LTE and now with Softbank's they have the money to implement. If they merge with tmobile which is predicted they will get the LTE network tmobile has.

If you are talking private WiMax then I guess its possible but that will be the only market. LTE has won the technology race for any type of mobile broadband offering.
 
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I heard rumors that WiMax Technology was created by Intel and that there is a WiMax 2 and is a successor of the WiMax 1, is that true?

My country still uses WiMax widely, but the ISPs use cheap and low-quality equipments to power this technology. For example, they use weak Korean WiMax towers and Korean WiMax routers (For clients) and that creates various problems. These low-quality towers are being overloaded and thus customers are getting very low download speeds and high pings. The problem is that they are not willing to fix it, some homes are getting only 1Mbps out of their 21Mbps due to overloaded towers. You don't want to see how our connection becomes at night (When everyone starts using the Internet).

 
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This is pretty much the VHS vs BETA arguments. It doesn't really matter which is better or worse. The vast majority of vendors are going with LTE. This means that WiMax can't compete because LTE equipment will be cheaper purely because of supply and demand. Try to even find a phone that has WiMax support, there are extremely limited options and its bound to get much worse.

WiMax actually works pretty good where you get good signal its too bad they overloaded the towers.

 
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