4 ms·
> If total latency ~ 500 ms, phone-to-tower is maybe 50ms of that in 4G. Even if it's down to ~1ms, total latency is only down 10%. How did you come up with 50
by gridlockd 6y ago
> If total latency ~ 500 ms, phone-to-tower is maybe 50ms of that in 4G. Even if it's down to ~1ms, total latency is only down 10%.
How did you come up with 500ms for comparison? A fast-paced videogame with that sort of latency would be unplayable. 100ms is still considered bad and 50ms is considered acceptable.
- shoguning 6y agoI guess I was thinking of initial webpage load, which might include a bunch of network calls (DNS, CSS, JS resources). Each individual network call is faster tho, good point.