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by gridlockd 2143 days 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.

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I 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.