Is fixed wireless internet good for gaming?

[Gunslinger1121]

I'm moving to a rural area within a mile of an internet tower. The guy who comes out and tests the speeds said I'd be getting an excellent connection there. I ran a speed test at my freinds house who has the same ISP and he's getting 10mb down, 10mb up, and around 50 ping. The ping was what I was worried about. I play a lot of first person shooter games like bf1, cs go, and rainbow six siege. The ping and speeds sound good to me but is there anything I need to worry about with a fixed connection? I've done some reading and some people say they get constant lag on this type of connection that happens every 20 seconds and playing games like cs go is impossible for them. But they've never mentioned there speed, latency, or how far away from the tower they were. So idk if it was just there bad connection and poor internet speeds they were getting. Or if gaming with a fixed wireless connection is truly bad.

 

[bill001g]

It mostly depends on the technology they use how good/bad it will be. If they use simple WiFi it will likely have issues very similar to wifi used in people houses. WiFi has no control over the end devices so they at times will transmit at the same time and stomp each other signal. It is made worse when the clients can not hear each other because they will avoid transmitting if they hear another signal.

Some of the better technology controls the end radios. Motorola canopy is one of the common techonlogy. Some of vendors are moving to LTE like the cell providers use but using it on the unlicensed bands. Both these control the client so you have less chance of overlap transmission.

It can work ok if you get strong enough signal. Like any ISP if they have oversold the network and too many neighbors compete for bandwidth you will have issues in general.

 

[Gunslinger1121]

It mostly depends on the technology they use how good/bad it will be. If they use simple WiFi it will likely have issues very similar to wifi used in people houses. WiFi has no control over the end devices so they at times will transmit at the same time and stomp each other signal. It is made worse when the clients can not hear each other because they will avoid transmitting if they hear another signal.

Some of the better technology controls the end radios. Motorola canopy is one of the common techonlogy. Some of vendors are moving to LTE like the cell providers use but using it on the unlicensed bands. Both these control the client so you have less chance of overlap transmission.

It can work ok if you get strong enough signal. Like any ISP if they have oversold the network and too many neighbors compete for bandwidth you will have issues in general.

thanks for the reply I also read your solution on another post that was similar to mine. Is lag and jittering something I should expect even if I don't have many neighbors and get an excellent connection? or if my connection was good enough would it be something that barely happens? I'm not sure what technology the tower is but they upgraded it not too long ago. I just want a reliable connection that I'm not gonna have any issues with or stuttering.

 

[bill001g]

My house in the country has that system. It works most the time but at times I got lag spikes. Hard to say why but if it happened it happened during the 5pm-10pm time frame when everyone else was home from work.