mikesim Posted December 22, 2004 CID Share Posted December 22, 2004 I'm new to the forum and have just gotten wireless broadband, not satellite. I was curious if others in the group have this and what kind of speeds you are realizing. C'mon folks chime in, any info about wireless positive or negative would be appreciated. I'm kind of the "guinea pig" for my ISP. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinlay Posted December 22, 2004 CID Share Posted December 22, 2004 Welcome to the fourm mikesim!!! Well i dont have wireless broadband but im with direcway. In my area i just released wireless broadband but it high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikesim Posted December 22, 2004 Author CID Share Posted December 22, 2004 I have DirecTV and looked into Directway, but it was VERY high and not as fast as wireless. I pay $39.95/month for my setup whuch I don't think is too bad, since dial-up was $19.95/mo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xyther4523 Posted December 22, 2004 CID Share Posted December 22, 2004 mikesim: can you post some speed tests of download/upload of your wireless? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcin541 Posted December 22, 2004 CID Share Posted December 22, 2004 I don't actually have a wireless connection but as i have heard, if you are in a WiFi "hotspot" you can get speeds from 300-500kbps. The service is free though. The closer you are to the actuall server, the faster your speeds, which makes perfect sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MICROWAVE Posted December 23, 2004 CID Share Posted December 23, 2004 mikesim...welcome to TESTMY.NET I hope you enjoy and visit often:) I don't have wireless either but, we took my friends laptop out and found a signal in several different sites in our city, the fastest speed we got was a little less than 200 KB/s and this is with an older computer.We did this for testing and my friend decided not to go wireless because he travels to remote areas and didn't think it would meet his needs, I also found it to lag and be unstable when moving, again the older computer may have been an issue:) Microwave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikesim Posted December 23, 2004 Author CID Share Posted December 23, 2004 Thanks for the reply to my post. After reading them, I tested my connection and here are the results: Download: connection = 961Kbps downloaded at = 117KB/s Upload: connection = 321 Kbps uploaded at = 39KB/s I have tested it several times and the fastest download connection to date is approx. 1400 Kbps. The speed is been variable, but generally never lower than 600 Kbps. These speeds are also with all firewalls, anti-virus, spy sweeper etc., enabled. I was hoping to find others with wireless broadband to compare speeds. This is not really Wi-Fi, but fixed wireless. I am located about 1.3 miles from the tower and have a small antenna/receiver on the roof of my home. This system is unaffected by weather unlike satellite. So far, I'm impressed having come from dial-up, but I am wondering what to expect long term. This is one of the first installations by my ISP and as I said in an earlier post, I am kind of a guinea pig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nymostwanted21 Posted December 23, 2004 CID Share Posted December 23, 2004 Those are actually very good speeds for Wireless! Considering that DSL starts at 768/128. My DSl connectiong is 3.0/768 which is great for DSL, and your 1.0/325 is excellent for wireless! WOW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chd176 Posted December 23, 2004 CID Share Posted December 23, 2004 I tried a wireless company here once. I would have kept them but the speed was very high even compared to satellite and my DSL. I usally tested around 1750/420, also I had some trees that grew in the path of the LOS for the wireless and I just decided to drop wrireless (at $120 a month) for DSL 1300/210 (at $45 a month). Oddly enough my pings are higher with DSL as well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted December 23, 2004 CID Share Posted December 23, 2004 This sounds realy cool totaly wirelss internet! What type of conection do you think they have down at the antena end? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcin541 Posted December 23, 2004 CID Share Posted December 23, 2004 Nymostwanted, ive seen you on dslreports in verizon forums alot Back to topic, If you have access to dsl and its cheaper, then i suggest dsl. Wireless will be a drag if you are having problems and your ISP will clain that there is interference between the tower and you. If you can get 1.5/384 dsl for a lower price, go for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
va3dlr Posted January 10, 2005 CID Share Posted January 10, 2005 I am getting 128- 130KB/second. That is bytes not bits with 8 bits to a byte. That is a modestly fast speed for wireless but not spectacular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shug7272 Posted January 10, 2005 CID Share Posted January 10, 2005 Welcome, I have had experience with wireless broadband. I was staying at Ramada and they had broadband wirelessly. It was pretty quick but I dont know much about it. How do you like it? Did you just switch recently, your 30 day stats are very inconsistant but never peak much above 1mb down. Why fast one day slow teh nexr? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falco Posted January 10, 2005 CID Share Posted January 10, 2005 I have the same type of wireless with an antenna on the roof of my house but I am about 18 miles from the tower. I don't have the best signal due to the distance to the tower because when they came to test to see if I could even receive it, they had a signal indicator on the portable antenna they used and I got " 2 lights instead of the full three". I find that the download speeds vary and I get between 400-700 Kbps.Not blazing but it beats my only other option-dial-up. I'm sure if i was closer to the tower, I would get faster speeds. Does your system use a 900 Mhz receiver also? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikesim Posted January 10, 2005 Author CID Share Posted January 10, 2005 My speeds were inconsistent at first as I had some trouble with the aiming of the receiver. Also, some of theose very low speeds were testing my dialup connection. Now that the system is stable my speeds are more consistent. I think some of the variance is not with the wireless connection, but with the rest of the net from my ISP down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_stryder Posted November 25, 2005 CID Share Posted November 25, 2005 Hi, new to the broadband thing, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falco Posted November 25, 2005 CID Share Posted November 25, 2005 If you are limited to 300 Kbps, you are getting about as much as you are going to. That doesn't sound right for the close distance you are to your tower. I'm 15 miles away from my tower and I average around 800 Kbps when the system isn't too busy. You can go to the Make it faster... forum and try and use cablenut and see if you can get it going faster. I know cablenut worked for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallowEarth Posted November 25, 2005 CID Share Posted November 25, 2005 Welcome to the forum, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
r_stryder Posted November 25, 2005 CID Share Posted November 25, 2005 thanks, my upload was running over 94 percent and my download was around 75 percent now I've run the download twice and got 95 and 85 which is much better then I was getting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FallowEarth Posted November 25, 2005 CID Share Posted November 25, 2005 thanks, my upload was running over 94 percent and my download was around 75 percent now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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