Long range towers???

[CodeMaster]

'lo all

Just wondering if anyone knows of any of the so-called LONG range towers that are up, or are going up. So far I have just heard of the towers with ±5,5km radius, what has happened to the towers with ±30km radius?

As soon as these go up, then maybe some of us in the outer laying areas of JHB and Pretoria will be covered. I am somewhere between Brakpan and Heidelberg, approx. 40km as the crow flies.

It would be great if we could get some kind of a schedule from Sentech as to the estimated roll-out dates and areas, at the moment, most of us are in the dark.

Anyone out there know more on this?

 

[guest2013-1]

Well, I get a signal from Randburg and I live in Roodepoort, so it all depends on location location location...

If you're on a hill and overlook most anything (Like I am) then you would be able to get a signal from at LEAST 20 or 30 km away. Because in built-up areas, the tower is about 5.5km radius and you'd be screwed. I have at least 2 towers covering me, 3 if I look for the other one... but I already get a 30% signal from the one, so I don't mind.

You're looking at end of this year at least, they roll-out quite quickly, but my guestimate would be the end of the year for any coverage where you are...

 

[ProAsm]

The wireless technology is only good for 5.7 km.
It has nothing to do with power, long range etc.
You could have a powerfull tower up that has a radius of 100 km, you could also have a 10 meter dish on your roof, but only people within a 5.7 km radius would be able to connect.
Syncing for this technology is purely distance related.
Like ADSL, which only goes approx 8 km regardless how wonderfull your copper wire is.

 

[guest2013-1]

they pay you to say that

called fastcomm, apparently they're out on training... *sigh*

 

[CodeMaster]

ProAsm

This is taken from the IPWireless website:
*snip*
<i>IPWireless technology operates in a non line-of-sight environment allowing fast wireless data access indoor, outdoor and in vehicular mobility environments. The system gain (link budget) is typically higher than 2G cellular systems allowing cells to be larger than that of typical cellular / PCS systems, or alternatively similar size with greater building penetration probability. Cell radius will depend upon deployment strategy, but can be as small as a microcell or as large as 29km.</i>

Why has Sentech decided to keep the cells as small as 5.5km?

 

[ProAsm]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Why has Sentech decided to keep the cells as small as 5.5km?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">The information on IPWireless is for a newer technology that no one in the world has at this stage.
You have to start somewhere and when the investment was made that technology did not exist.
Its like your PC or graphics card, if you sat and waited for the latest technology, you would never own one []
As time goes by we will switch over to it.