MrTroy03
Limp Gawd
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- Feb 12, 2008
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I live in the middle of nowhere and currently have the best DSL package available, which is a whopping 3Mbps down and "1 up". Most of the time I actually get about 0.5 -0.65 up and about 2.5-2.7 down which is pretty good as with DSL you never get the full amount. The up could be better. However sometimes it sags to less than 2Mbps, in the range of 1.5Mbps when the whole neighborhood is home it seems.
Anyway I just found out that I am 4 miles away from one of these "Fixed Wireless" aka Microwave ISP towers by Wi-Power through TransWorld. They offer 6Mbps down and 1.5 Mbps up which is basically double what I get from DSL.
I am having them come do a site-survey which is mandatory before new service, but I wanted to see if anyone else had any experience with a similar Microwave, point to point based wireless ISP?
The sales guy actually knew a little bit which impressed me. Their sales PDFs do not mention up, but he knew what the upload speed was. I also asked if they had public accessible IP addresses and he told me that I could use my own router and they give static IP addresses by default (wow!). He could not give me actual latency numbers but he claimed that the latency on this tech was comparable to "fiber" which I doubt, I would expect something closer to cable or DSL (30-40ms), but even that would be great as my latency is often 60ms or higher.
He says they do up to 15 miles out and I am 4 miles away so he expects it to work fine, but does anyone have any experience in this? Specifically on latency?
How badly is it affected by storms? I understand if snow gets on it that will hurt the signal, but since its not going into space will a basic thunderstorm and rain affect it very much?
Anyway I just found out that I am 4 miles away from one of these "Fixed Wireless" aka Microwave ISP towers by Wi-Power through TransWorld. They offer 6Mbps down and 1.5 Mbps up which is basically double what I get from DSL.
I am having them come do a site-survey which is mandatory before new service, but I wanted to see if anyone else had any experience with a similar Microwave, point to point based wireless ISP?
The sales guy actually knew a little bit which impressed me. Their sales PDFs do not mention up, but he knew what the upload speed was. I also asked if they had public accessible IP addresses and he told me that I could use my own router and they give static IP addresses by default (wow!). He could not give me actual latency numbers but he claimed that the latency on this tech was comparable to "fiber" which I doubt, I would expect something closer to cable or DSL (30-40ms), but even that would be great as my latency is often 60ms or higher.
He says they do up to 15 miles out and I am 4 miles away so he expects it to work fine, but does anyone have any experience in this? Specifically on latency?
How badly is it affected by storms? I understand if snow gets on it that will hurt the signal, but since its not going into space will a basic thunderstorm and rain affect it very much?