I appreciate the responses You probably are making sense to some people, notably those that know more about this stuff than I do

I was under the assumption that aDSL is a wired solution. Ping is determined by how long it takes to go from point A to point B through the wires and it's only as fast as it's weakest link (make sense?). The farther you go, the worse the lines in between, the higher the ping.

If you have say, WiMax connectivity (advertised as 56mbps or other high download rate) I thought your signal is sent from your PC to your router (wired or wireless, doesn't matter to me) then from your router to the "wireless access point" (this is where I really don't know). From the wireless access point I thought the signal is shot into space, bounces off satellite, is received at the wireless access point somewhere else, then sent to router, then to whatever is connected.

If I'm totally off let me know. I wanted to know what kind of ping would be normal from Kenya to California through WiMax I am close to California. I don't have a wireless access point here, I am on cabled connection or I'd just be looking for a Kenyan IP address that is also utilizing WiMax.