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| Thread ID: 41712 | 2004-01-20 03:42:00 | Jetstream prices - any new rumours out there? | John H (8) | Press F1 |
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| 208610 | 2004-01-20 22:26:00 | Hate to break it to you all, but Woosh isn't all it's cracked up to be. Fair usage seems to be 7gigs... a far cry from the "unlimited" they are throwing around. It's useless for gaming. It's not around all of Auckland yet. I hear from the grapevine that because so many people have jumped onto Woosh, they are struggling with bandwidth with access sometimes choked down to snail's pace. Of course I can't confirm the last point, but everything else is true. Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 208611 | 2004-01-20 22:52:00 | Speaking of the Grapevine, apparently its a bit tempermental dependant upon the weather. That's gonna be what you expect with Wireless though.... Im still wondering how they can put you on a higher usage plan that "Unlimited". You get a call if you go over 7 gigs and say "Yeah sure, Im already on an Unlimited Plan, I feel like I need to go to a plan that allows for more usage". Not likely.... |
Chilling_Silently (228) | ||
| 208612 | 2004-01-20 23:06:00 | What? None of you been on 14.4K modems paying usage by the megabytes before? It wasn't really that long ago when Telecom (and ISPs) used to be horrendously expensive. Wireless is just another evolution of the technology. It starts out flakey and expensive, then eventually it will stabilise and the price will match the market. One good news tho, there is still the untapped technology - broadband via powerlines. I reckon that's where Telecom is going to be hit. |
nzStan (440) | ||
| 208613 | 2004-01-20 23:11:00 | As a Woosh user in the CBD I can confirm that bandwidth has slowed to a snails pace (worse than dialup on some occasions) and drops out all the time if the weather is bad or it is windy. It may be the time of day that I try to connect, i.e. after work. Last night it took 7 attempts to connect via Woosh to check my e-mail. Has anyone else had the same issues? |
Marlboro (4607) | ||
| 208614 | 2004-01-20 23:31:00 | Wow, thanks chiefnz . I must look up the article on the Herald website . Only problem with that is the cost of changing from my good adsl modem router to the Whoosh hardware, but it looks like it will be worth it . And replacing the router may be more economically justifiable by the time Whoosh get to roll out in ChCh - looks like my router might be outdated technology by then! |
John H (8) | ||
| 208615 | 2004-01-21 03:09:00 | The problem with wireless is that you either need an individual receiver for each on-line user (just as ISPs have rooms full of modems for dial-up and occasionally you can't get a line) or they have to use time division multiplexing to allow several users to share each receiver . The more times you divide the available bandwidth, the slower the individual connections will be . Making more bandwidth available adds lots of $$$$ to their costs so they are not equipped for peak loads, just the average . Sign up plenty of users though, and average load soon becomes peak . The internet bandwidth VS speed equation strikes again . ]:) Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
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