Pepper

Well, my bubble burst. There's many times especially in the evening, like right now (8pm) that it slows way down. My upload speed is just fine, but my download is around 0.6 Mbps with the 3Mbps package. It was unstoppable when I first got it. We'll see where this goes.

How would I access this spectrum analyzer? I believe I have a 3.5 GHz module. There are 5 green LED lights on the bottom of the module. I assume each light represents how many Mbits/s the connection can handle. I have a steady 4 lights, sometimes the 5th one will light up. They didn't provide me with any software at all. I sure would like that Java applet. I asked them about it but they said they're not supposed to give it to me, and they didn't. Is there any online download source for such a coveted piece of software? I searched but didn't find anything.

Yep, I have another question indeed. They set up your speed based on the strength of signal needed to give a certain bitrate, right? If they installed it on a clear sunny day, and set up the max signal usage to represent 3mbit/s (which they did), on a rainy/snowy day that needed more signal power to achieve 3mbit/s, your speed would fall; correct? The reverse is also true and would be the better scenario; if they installed it in the rain/snow, they would set up the account with the signal strength needed to hit 3Mbit/s in the rain/snow. Then when it clears up, since the signal strength is set higher, you'd get higher than 3Mbit/s speeds? They installed mine on a relatively clear day. There was some cloud cover but the LOS was clear. Can I expect my speed to fall in the snow? (somewhat expecting that) and would it be to your advantage to have them install on a cruddy day? (even though it's not feasible, plannable, and it's too late)

Yeah, fixed wireless, it's a new tower and I have good signal. What's the deal with a new tower? Once more people sign up and log onto it, my speed falls? Those speeds are sustained with little to no torrent throttling. Got 160kB/s average on a torrent with a lot of seeds. I had blips into 250-350, even crossed the 400 mark for a very brief period. I don't plan to be too heavy on it, but when I do download a torrent which I don't do often, it does help for it to actually work. I hope it stays like this for a while anyways. I'm actually nervous posting this on here. I hope they don't crack down. Any risk of that?

Just got it today. 25/20 power ratings. 3Mbps package with 50MB file: :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 2830 Kbps about 2.8 Mbps (tested with 51195 kB) Download Speed is:: 345 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2009/10/14 - 9:39am Bottom Line:: 49X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 2.97 sec Tested from a 51195 kB file and took 148.192 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 105.97 % faster than the average for host (132.6) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-6PAJEOH4T User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009082707 Firefox/3.0.14 [!]