Bill's Blog 6/15/11: "What percent of viewers read the title?"

[linuxboy]

Originally Posted by apalrd

The current radio (2011) takes approximately 2 minutes to boot up and connect to the field. If they expect us to be ready in, say, 3 minutes, this is far too long to wait.
The previous Linksys gaming adapter (2009-2010) was slightly faster, I don't know exactly how much faster.
The IFI system (2000-2008) could boot up and establish a radio connection in 5 seconds, always.

In my experience it only took 50 seconds on average and a max of 1 minute and ten seconds but when your waiting to start a match even that seems like a while. If that could be faster I think that would make the fixed time a little better but still it seems like that fixed time would require everything to work right the first time