spednetTexas
join:2008-02-24 | reply to mizzer
Re: What is your speed, service price, and location and ISP?
This is what I get in Texas
Speed 1m/256
Actual 950/245
Avg Ping Time under 80ms
9 miles from tower
Cost 49.95
Location Anton, Texas |
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cjs4760
| reply to mizzer
Hi all,
I just got a WISP install today, after nearly 7 years of my only choice being direcpc/direcway/hughesnet.
Central Valley Broadband.
I'm on 900MHz, 1 miles as the crow flies to the POP, but 3 hops to the fibre office.
A very happy,
Chris in rural Auburn |
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cjs4760
| Ooops, in my euphoria I forgot to mention, $69.95. Same price as Hughes/Earthlink, so it's ALL upside!
-C |
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LLigetfa
join:2006-05-15
Fort Frances, ON
| Finally, I have some bragging rights.
ISP is TBayTel
Service is 5.7 Canopy
Price is $47.95
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Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. -- Stephen Vizinczey |
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seagreen
Premium,Mod
join:2001-05-14
out there | reply to mizzer
Re: What is your speed, service price, and location and ISP?
Reminder:
If you don't include your ISP's name, operating locale, and the price of service your post is of little use to other users and it will be deleted. |
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Total Obliv
join:2006-06-28
Hattiesburg, MS
| Yea, In my euphoria I forgot, too...
ISP: Sprint
Operating Locale? Umm, I guess that means Hattiesburg, MS.
Cost: $60 USD / month
Now if only I had that link from yesterday with that 6000 kbps upload...  |
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LLigetfa
join:2006-05-15
Fort Frances, ON
| said by Total Obliv  :Now if only I had that link from yesterday with that 6000 kbps upload... You should be able to pull up your past results. There is a My Results tab at the top.
BTW, here is a speedtest for my hotspot in town.
Purported to be 6meg down/800Kb up.
ISP: Bell Business Dedicated (BID DSL)
Location: Fort Frances
Cost: $187 plus $50 per month for the line
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Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. -- Stephen Vizinczey |
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Total Obliv
join:2006-06-28
Hattiesburg, MS
| Looks like the speed tests I did earlier were flukes...
Repeated speed tests are looking more like this one:
ISP: Sprint
Operating Locale? Umm, I guess that means Hattiesburg, MS.
Cost: $60 USD / month
It's Rev. 0 though. Salesman said they had Rev. A, but I had a feeling he didn't have a clue about what he was talking about. |
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denisevich
join:2008-01-31
Richardson, TX | reply to mizzer
Re: What is your speed, service price, and location and ISP?
Price: 59.99 for Unlimited
Location: North Texas |
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W6Taurus
join:2003-01-29
Griggsville, IL | reply to mizzer
ISP: Adams.net
Location:West Central Illinois
Speed 512up/down
Price:39.99
Residential Fixed Wireless
10Mb Web Space included
5 Email addresses
Static Ip
Newsgroups
24/7 Tech support
Free installation and equipment |
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iansltx
@Mines.EDU
| reply to mizzer
Just remoted into my parents' computer back in Texas from my dorm (shared university OC3, connection variable, sometimes lower than 25/15, sometimes higher than 50/50) and here's what I got:
»www.speedtest.net/result/262417533.png
ISP: Bee Creek Communications, www.beecreek.net
Locale: Fredericksburg, TX
Tower Distance: Close (mile or two), easy LOS
Equipment: Will check on when I get back home
Backbone: DS3 for 1500-ish customers, that's why their speeds are...
Advertised Speed: 512/256
Bandwidth Limit: 25 GB/month, less if they think you have a virus aka you download a gig or two of data in one day
Price: $200 on setup, $42 a month (all plus sales tax), was $10 more per month because wanted a 1-year contract instead of 2-year
Spectrum Usage: 2.4 GHz channel 6 iirc
Backbone distance: ~40 miles (5.8 GHz microwave backhaul to Kerrville)
Also did the VoIP speedtest. Results in a sec...pings to Google were very consistent, ~50ms, however I've seen them at 75ms before. Also, can't keep an AIM or Skype video call going, though Windows Live seems to work a bit better. They just started doing DHCP so when they convert to a Qwest T3 (still a T3!?!) they don't have to mess with customers' IPs. However to keep RDP going I got them to keep our static IP, though the DHCP seems to have some sort of NAT so they manually had to open (and forward from 6900 to 3389 geez) the port for RDP.
Anyway, here are the VoIP figures. Note that this is at 1 am there, so the network is in as good a condition as it'll get. Will post tomorrow during peak with those results. I think unmetered speeds get ~3 Mbit symmetric from my location.
QoS: 99%
Jitter: 0.1 ms
Packet Loss: 0.2%
Yes it's pretty awesome considering the figures for my college connection aren't nearly as good, even though the connection funnels into a hub along with ~19 Gbit of other connectivity and that in turn heads out to 12 Gbit of backbone, distributed between six providers. I think my school just needs to up their link to gigabit instead of the OC3...we're the slowest link on the POP.
At any rate, while the service seems to have decent equipment and customer service is generally good (I think they have six people working in the whole outfit though...maybe a few more...by no means a large establishment so they could afford to spend more on backbone) their whole deal with switching to DHCP and setting up the firewall as such is quite annoying. Also, speeds, while pretty darn stable, aren't great. As such, I'm going to try and convert to Millenicom now that the Bee Creek contract is up. No contract required, the service is actually mobile, and while there will be more latency downsream and upstream speeds during peak times will be 2-3x what they are now with the rA coverage and no firewalling or bandwidth limit!
Personally though I'm planning to, enterprising me, start up a wireless ISP, hopefully WiMax-based, to actually give people a choice rather than having one high-profile WiSP (who I'm thinking would charge $150+ for their 1.5-2 Mbit plan) and one satellite provider (WildBlue) as the big options outside of town. Most people don't know about Sprint Broadband but hopefully that'll change too :/ |
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tlb99
join:2006-09-08
united state
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Price: $39.95/mo
Location: RC/Watertown, SD
Speed:2meg down/1 meg up (latency is horrible when uploading)
2.4Ghz to tower then the rest is fiber
120ms to west coast, sub 100ms everywhere else in the U.S. & 36ms to Wichita, KS (69.65.13.105) |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
 ·Comcast
 ·Qwest.net
 ·magicjack.com
 ·BeeCreek Communica..
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| reply to mizzer
Checking the connection again during relatively peak hours.
There was some ping loss to Google but the average seems to be 56 ms or so now, maybe a little closer to 60.
Heh, looks like DL/UL is 520/842.
However, jitter is up around 3.6 ms and packet loss is 1.2%. QoS is at 99% though.
QoS is actually better than my campus's shared OC3 by a long shot, however all other figures are worse 
Be back later with a friend's speed test reports. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
·Comcast
·Qwest.net
·magicjack.com
·BeeCreek Communica..
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| One more speed test, from a friend's Bee Creek connection. Seems like he's farther out than I am...
524/304 (though uploads went into double digits, even low ones, when doing testing)
56-ish latency to Google
QoS: 98%
Jitter: 5.7 ms
Packet Loss: 10% upstream (!?!)
VoIPReview's speed test is a sweet thing. Bee Creek..not so much. Then agai, I like fast internet, and would rather have an EvDO connection with 150-200ms latency, 250ms max, than something 1/2 to 1/3 the speed, fixed, with better pings. |
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philfna
Premium
join:2003-12-30
Wisconsin
·TDS
3 edits | reply to mizzer
WiMax Fixed Service from TDS MetroCom
Madison, Wisconsin
Advertised 6 Meg / 3 Meg service
Ping 67 ms
$55 a month -- $15 more for unlimited VoIP with 4 hour backup. Downtime so far not a single minute. Speed varies by about 10 percent at most based on weather.
Really stable service -- WIMAX is a great deal.
Antenae on the roof -- line of site based. 2600 feet from the tower. The tower is part of TDS's fiber ring so speed capacity should not be an issue.
Forgot to mention TDS owns the licensed bandwidth in Madison, and the whole city will have coverage. |
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