chuckycharms

Hey All, Been awhile since I posted on this thread. The same wireless ISP ive had for 10 years just upgraded their service offerings in our area this spring. These speeds are pretty common, my average is 16.5 and my upload is usually more around the 2.2 mark. I have the 5G 10Max service at $65/month http://www.thewisp.net/services.asp#5G. Im assuming there is some bursting going on, but its always up this high. Actually their speeds have always been higher than the advertised plans. And they have no contracts. Someone before said that my ISPs packages were $155/month, and said that I was lying. Not so at all! Im pretty proud of this being that I live in the middle of nowhere, and have great service. They have a voip package too that we picked up about 6 months ago, which works like a normal land line. Cant tell the difference. (I know, land line right, well being that we live out of town, and our first child is on the way, I thought it would be good just in case a cell phone dies or something.) :::.. Combined Test Results ..::: Download Connection:: 14360 Kbps or 14.4 Mbps Download Test Size:: 8.1 MB or 8294 kB or 8493466 bytes Download Speed:: 1795 kB/s or 1.8 MB/s Upload Connection:: 1091 Kbps or 1.1 Mbps Upload Test Size:: 1.5 MB or 1496 kB or 1531710 bytes Upload Speed:: 136 kB/s Tested At:: http://TestMy.net version:13 Test Time:: 2012-09-14 12:06:48 Local Time Validation:: https://testmy.net/db/jCsiDGU.hSWKFyA User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.89 Safari/537.1 [!] On another note, My brother used to have the same ISP and then he moved to Colorado, can't get them there. But he was looking into becoming a reseller/franchise of the company and sounds like its going well so far. I guess theres not much start up costs, but they rely a lot on him to do most of the work. He's got about 20 people pre-sold for one access point location already. Im kinda bragging because I love these guys, have been great to us from day one.

Voip has been great for us! Its not the technology nor the industry that has caused any problems, but rather this paticular companies customer service. Vonage is really geared towards consumers as well, additionally, they do not support asterisk. You must use their termination ATA's. This doesnt work for us.

Hello All, I own a regional ISP in northern Illinois. We run an asterisk VOIP PBX in house and have for a few years now. We have 16 incoming phone lines for customer service/tech support. These lines are ViaTalk VOIP lines. At approximatly 7pm this evening I went to place an outgoing call at the office, and my call was redirected to viatalk techsupport. After on hold a few short minutes, I spoke with a tech support agent who stated that 'something happened to my account' and that my account is temporarily disabled. He then told me that the party that takes care of this issue is out for the day and to call back tomorrow. He said that he did not know what was wrong with my account, and that he could not enable it. So now I must go over night with NO incoming or outgoing phone calls. When customers call it states that our number has been disconnected. He insured me that this has nothing to do with my account standing, as we pay our account on time everytime. Secondly, I pay extra for 'business' service, and as well as an extra $5/month for 'priorty support'. I asked the support agent that if they have protocols in place to identify problems and disable a customer, should that protocol not included contacting the customer to ultimatly resolve the issue. He agreed but stated that he does not own the company, and to call back tomorrow. I also asked if there was a way to redirect all of the calls to another number in the meantime, he said that this was not possible. I may be wrong, but owning a CLEC in the past I highly doubt this, but all traditional telephone compaines are regulated and mandated as a utility. This ensures proper response times in the event of a failure. If ViaTalk hopes to compete for business class service, they should consider implementing inhouse 'mandates' to have an equal quality service as its competitors. So essentially, in a nutshell, Tech support noticed a problem with my account during business hours. Disabeld my account, and left for the day with out contacting me. Instead of calling tomorrow to have the problem resolved, I will be moving my well paid account to another provider. Just a heads up for what to expect from this seemingly retroactive company. Thanks for Reading!

Fixed Wireless ISP Stats, thewisp.net $35/month Not Bad? :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 1839 Kbps about 1.8 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB) Download Speed is:: 224 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/10/29 - 9:24pm Bottom Line:: 32X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 4.57 sec Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 13.328 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 30.52 % faster than the average for host (59.243) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-VHZFIBASO User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) [!] :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Upload Connection is:: 2204 Kbps about 2.2 Mbps (tested with 5983 kB) Upload Speed is:: 269 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Server 1) Test Time:: 2006/10/29 - 9:26pm Bottom Line:: 38X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 3.81 sec Tested from a 5983 kB file and took 22.236 seconds to complete Upload Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 151.31 % faster than the average for host (59.243) U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-GMHZ92BCY User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) [!]

Do you mean you cant download a file larger than 2.5Mb or that you can not download any faster than 2.5Mb? If you mean faster than, do you know how fast you are supposed to download at? At what rate is your wireless card associated at? 1,2,5.5,11, etc..... Remember that Wireless is only half-duplex, so if you are associated at 2Mb, then the fastest you could ever see is 1mb. And u prolly would never see that either. Also, whats wrong with 2.5mb/sec?!!??!?