First impressions

[regardtv]

Well,

Now that most of us have been burnt and scarred for life by being MySmokeSignal "early adopters" I've just gotten myself involved in testing the WBS service....

WOW .... enough said ;-)

I'll try keep eveyone posted over the next weeks. My primary testing with these units will concern the following:

1) Suitability to high speed use (in vehicles)
2) Linux drivers and their stability
3) Predicated vs actual availability
4) Average latency
5) Factors affecting latency
6) External antennas and their influence on throughput and latency
7) Sustainability of throughput
8) Packet loss

While many of these test results will obviously change as more users sign onto the network - I want to get this testing done and hopefully provide comparatives as this service comes into its own.

Any other thoughts,suggestions etc ?

 

[anakin]

Rtv, I've been looking for Linux drivers for iBurst. If you find them, please post.

By the way, how far are you from the base stations?

PS. google for internet tv to test your iBurst.

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[regardtv]

"Officially" I'm out of covarage range ... but thanx to some good elevation I have LOS to Sandton Tower - about 12km away .. will do gps distance thing this weekend to confirm... pulling at 40KB/s at the moment ;-)

I've been provided with some early drivers in source form - will provide additional info as soon as I've done some testing - and checking that I can pass them around ;-)

 

[TheRoDent]

Reee. Hope WBS responds to my "prods" too. How'd you organize this regardtv? I'm officially smack bang in one of the dark green reception areas.


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[anakin]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by TheRoDent</i>
... I'm officially smack bang in one of the dark green reception areas. ...
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Rodent, are you referring to rollout coverage, or pilot testing coverage?

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[TheRoDent]

Ooh. Well, I dunno which that is anakin. I simply checked the updated maps on the iBurst site? Still only the 2 towers active?

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[TheRoDent]

Just double checked. I'll be covered via Northcliff, and am currently covered via the Sandton tower, in thick fat green according to the pilot coverage maps.

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[TheRoDent]

Hmmm. From their PDF's...

- Forward error correction (FEC), and automatic repeat request (ARQ) for error-free link within coverage area.

Hehe! Nic Roets is going to love the FEC

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[Dean_Henstock]

Hey, well so far what I have seen, it works through walls and will almost work in your bunker in your back yard.

But remeber the following:

We all know the true price of International bandwidth ! So lets not be mistaken into thinking the bandiwth will be 100% better,, however the connectivety I am sure will be

Keep Surfing

 

[arf9999]

Rodent...

You're in Greenside, right? And you're covered by Sandton?

*rubs hands gleefully*

 

[regardtv]

We're talking 10km range here arf ... I'm in RandparkRidge and picking up coverage from Sandton ... I'm past the edge of the coverage and yet connect quite nicely ;-)

 

[arf9999]

All I want is 24/7 reasonable speed...without a cap and at a reasonable price. MyWi seemed like the answer, but the 1st September is advancing and my experience is worse rather than better....

*ponders*... cancel mywi and then maybe order ISDN for the months until iBurst is launched, or just live with dial up, hmmm?

-WBS if you're reading this, I think that I would be a very good tester for iBurst. Please feel free to email me for my address and contact details[]

 

[Kai]

LOL! nice one arf! subtle... very subtle...

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[regardtv]

The iBurst system is based on one of the proposed 802.20 standards ... seems technically sound - just depends on if the world rather goes 802.16 or 802.20...