There is no way a wireless network can perform better than a wired network, latency wise & eventually speed wise, if TM decides to roll out 100Mbps home package HSBB.

As for latency, wireless network will definitely have a much higher latency than wired no matter how quick the speed can be. Games should stay away from wireless internet as there will be spikes in ping times and it will be affected by environmental factors. (Eg, temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure) as this technology uses wavelength over air, those factors will affect the performance. Try going to USA and use a satallite based internet connection, the latency is high (at least 100ms) but the speed is great.

As for speed, as long as the support equipment can support the load, should be no problem (assuming the ISP's back end router and backbone and all other support equipment can cater the global network and if they do REAL TIME bandwidth management). They can have multiple base stations in one area to prevent overloading/bottle-necking of a single base station. If all other factors allow(stuff inside the ISP are good and they have enough capacity), they can have multiple base stations with user limits to prevent congestion and the speeds can go higher than any speed TM is offering to home package users (now max is 10Mbps HSBB). However, if there are really too many users in an area, the "data wave" will get congested no matter how many base stations they have and there will be increased latency ( lets say your request reaches another base station you are not connected etc )

One should still remember, we, Malaysians are heavy internet users. With all that downloading and streaming, the total international bandwidth we have is unable to support all the load. We are not Japan or Korea which have their own independent fiber optics cable to western countries. We are not Singapore which is just a small nation. Our bandwidth currently relies on other people's cable links to the Western World, where all the content is. Perhaps soon we should start our own cable project and then be the one selling bandwidth to other Asian countries.

This post has been edited by andrew9292: Mar 8 2010, 01:00 PM

When there isn't hope, there isn't expectations. When there is no expectations, there will be no disappointment. Nuff said.