http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r13018868 en Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:02:26 EDT Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:02:26 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13018868 ElJay : It's a joke. I live near the deployment area of this service and there has been propaganda in the local papers about how fast and cheap this service is going to be. I get 2mbps DSL service for $35/mo and I don't have to worry about sharing bandwidth with anybody in my neighborhood. I highly doubt that the mesh network is going to offer anybody steady speeds, especially during peak usage times.

Does anybody know what effects this type of mesh network would have on private 802.11 access points set up in a home? We already have a point-to-point wireless internet provider in the area that utilizes the 900MHz, 2.4GHz, and 5.8GHz frequency bands, but it requires line of sight to the ISP's antennas. This mesh idea sounds like it's going to be in the way of anybody else trying to use the 2.4GHz spectrum.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13018868 Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:56:47 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13013279 barky : Wait, whered you get 100mbit in the first place? For 200 x Dialup = 100mbit , to be true, Dialup would have to be 512kbps. We know its 1mbit now, which is around 20x dialup speed. Theres no reason their wireless won't be as stable as yours. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13013279 Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:02:47 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13012014 Damon85 : It's always nice when people who have forgotten what dial-up is like chime in to say how bad something is...

I'd take the possibility of 1mbps downloads over dial-up 24kbps surety any day... who cares if it slows down to 60kbps under heavy load? It's still faster than dial-up.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13012014 Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:54:04 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13011894 LoneGreyWolf : It's still better then my connection. Right now I am connected at a blazing 24.0kbps. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13011894 Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:32:45 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13011823 jazzy112 : Has anybody done the math yet?????

Good Lord, the only way you are going to see 100mbit is to be directly connected to the first node connected to the Backbone. What a bunch of boneheads to be promising 200x dialup.Even if you are running in Turbo mode the fastest the lucky user is going to see will be 54mb, as you get further and further away from the backbone, your bandwidth drops exponentially. 3rd hop is 27, 4th is 14. We all know how well turbo mode works, so I doubt they're stupid enough to do that on that large of scale. So then your looking at 54 at the first node, 27 at the second and 14 at the 3rd. And lets not forget how big of a frequency hog 802.11g is, then that drops you to a starting point of 11, followed by 5.5 and 2.75.

Lets not forget about the users, on a mesh it only takes a handful of bandwidth hogs to kill the whole system. Remember judging by the article, they are only injecting bandwidth at one location. That means all of their users will flow through 1 802.11 radio....Yuk.

They can have their oversold crap, I'll keep my standard fixed wireless with a decent backhaul support. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,13011823 Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:19:02 EDT