More distance=more ping?

[Maqqnus]

Hello and welcome to my first post on this forum! 

 

Unfortunately, where I live (in the middle of a forest somewhere in Norway) good network access is not availible. I have to rely on mobile data and a mobile broadband plan to suit all my needs in terms of gaming. This plan comes with a 200gb per month data usage limit, which is simply not enough for downloading big games. Another company has recently launched a new type of plan where the limit is 1tb, and I really want to switch. I do however have a concern (sorry for the long build up): Will the fact that the 4G antenna for the new plan is much further away (a couple kilometers maybe), affect my ping in games? It really is bad enough as it is. 

 

Any answer would be greatly appreciated. 

[Jurrunio]

More distance = more ping but I dont know if 4G compensates for this over 3G (I assume, the current plan uses)

[Grabhanem]

8 minutes ago, Maqqnus said:

Hello and welcome to my first post on this forum! 

 

Unfortunately, where I live (in the middle of a forest somewhere in Norway) good network access is not availible. I have to rely on mobile data and a mobile broadband plan to suit all my needs in terms of gaming. This plan comes with a 200gb per month data usage limit, which is simply not enough for downloading big games. Another company has recently launched a new type of plan where the limit is 1tb, and I really want to switch. I do however have a concern (sorry for the long build up): Will the fact that the 4G antenna for the new plan is much further away (a couple kilometers maybe), affect my ping in games? It really is bad enough as it is. 

 

Any answer would be greatly appreciated. 

It shouldn't make much difference, in theory. 5km is only about 0.015 ms for RF signals.

The difference would be if their infrastructure is different, but that could either improve or hurt your ping times. As long as the signal is reliable, ping would be pretty much a toss up of who has the better routing.

[beersykins]

Wireless is actually faster than shooting light through a solid (fiber) from a latency perspective.

 

If your RSSI/signal strength sucks it's going to be lame, however.  Primary considerations are signal, standard (4g/LTE), and congestion (airspace and available backhaul bandwidth from the tower).  You don't really control any of these aspects so it's difficult

 

I'd expect something similar experience wise to what you have now, see if they have a trial or warranty type of period before committing to a long term deal.