What about pings on 3.9G, is it better than 3.5G, or should I forget about online gaming on wireless connection?
EDIT: I've just read this, it's a review for the 21Mbps HSPA+ in South Africa when they switched on it before the World Cup
During the testing a large file was downloaded via FTP, a speed test was performed and a high definition video was streamed, and the performance was stable with smooth streaming of the video and a speed test performance of 8 Mbps.
One of the most impressive aspects of the new HSPA+ service was the low latency. On-net latency ranged between 20ms and 30ms, with ping times to the MyBroadband service (on the MTN network) ranging between 25ms and 40ms. International latency was equally impressive with ping times to Google.com ranging between 200ms and 210ms.
The latency and overall performance of the network is suitable for online gaming, and the Vodacom engineers pointed out that they could not find any online games which could even start to stress the new HSPA+ network.
I hope we don't get screwed by MTC Touch and Alfa :)