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A comment on Telstra’s Gigabit Class LTE Network. Parent comment

Re:Telstra’s Gigabit Class LTE Network by kayoone on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @03:14PM (#13933815)
Modern LTE latency is comparable to DSL/Cable at <=30ms in many cases. Sure fiber latency is lower, but until that is available to the same amount of people as DSL/Cable the mobile technology will have advanced too. Online gaming and streaming is totally fine over a LTE connection, the only problem is bandwidth caps. (This might not apply to professional gamers, but i consider those a niche)
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Re:Telstra’s Gigabit Class LTE Network by ferongr on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @05:12PM (#13935015)
30ms is abysmal.
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Re:Telstra’s Gigabit Class LTE Network by rayiner on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @06:11PM (#13935482)
That's roughly the transit latency from Texas to the coasts. By your logic even a fiber link from Texas to NYC will have "abysmal" latency.
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Re:Telstra’s Gigabit Class LTE Network by kayoone on Thursday March 23, 2017 @02:14AM (#13937716)
It's totally fine for any kind of realtime online interactions though, unless you are a super competitive gamer, but even then many do not have access to fiber and still do well Also note that i am saying "lower than or equal", my current LTE connection gives me 18ms ping to nearby locations, same as my cable connection.
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