Broadband over 3G?

Latency and speed are two very different things. Latency tells you how long it takes to send a package to a destination and get a reply, where as speed tells you how much you are able to send and receive within a given time frame.

An example. 2 companies produce cars. CompanyA can produce 10 cars a day, and it takes a day to get an order confirmation. CompanyB can produce 100 cars a day, but it takes a month to get an order confirmation. Even though companyB can produce 10 times as many cars a day as CompanyA it might still take longer to actually get the car you ordered because of the delay in order confirmations. This means that while the order confirmation in CompanyB is being processed, CompanyB can still produces cars for other orders, but each specific order is delayed.

That said there are ways to optimize your configuration so latency isn't a big deal unless you're gaming. However there is only much to gain if you often transfer big files.

Helle!

Thanks for your reply!

But I wonder if the standard setting (for latency) is set, will then the latency time be static for each Internet provider?

I just test to ping sunet.se and found it to be 9ms-10ms.

The company that gave me the new offer is willing to give me a month free testing.

If I do the same ping-test and found that the latency will be for example 19ms-20ms, can I rely that that time will be the same? (Unless the Internet provider is changing any thing like hardware at there company for example)?

Btw my intention is to just surf, connect my digitalbox to it and download movies. It works with my present speed and latency. (Before we can watch a movie we have to start the download like 30 min before). Is then latency somthing that will affect my usage?

Best regards
Fredrik

Hello!

I tried it out and it turned out that we got a very bad "cover", so I'm stick to my old ISP with cable.

Best regards
/Fredrik
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