MyWireless for Video Conferencing?

[cyferijo]

Due to the insane pricing of 256/512k diginet, and the 2006 rollout for ADSL (according to Telscum) at our exchange, the only option I have left is a 512k MyWireless solution for IP (H323) videoconferencing.
Unfortunately though, the reseller I have dealt with is unable to demonstrate a 512k connection at our premises in order to verify the signal strength and video performance, as he only has a 128k 'demo line'. We obviously cannot sign a 24month contract without first establishing the video performance (and signal strength) at our premises.

Are there any resellers (that frequent this forum) with 512k MyWireless subscriptions that are prepared to do an on-site test/demonstration (Pretoria East)?

 

[lewstherin]

Bad news for you is that MyWireless latency is much higher than land line latencies. This is bad for video conferencing.

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[TheRoDent]

You would be insane to even contemplate MyWireless for this purpose. Even 128k ISDN will give you better video conferencing capabilities than MyWireless. MyWireless's latency is <b>ridiculous</b> (worse than 56k modems here in Gauteng) and the bandwidth capacity is around 3kb/s.

Even with a demonstration, and it's fairly functional (which I doubt), it would be impossible to tell how the service will degrade during the months to come.

Get ISDN. It's reliable, has low latency and is on-demand. If you need something permanent, even CAPPED ADSL will beat locally interchanged traffic against MyWireless.



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[Comrade Borris]

I think you'd be insane to rely on MW for connectivity as a business, even as a home user who has the occasional business need MW seems to be really unreliable as an always on 'broadband' connection

 

[cyferijo]

ADSL is currently not an option as our local exchange does not support it.
We currently have 128k ISDN for this purpose, with pathetic results. 384k is the minimum for decent audio/video quality.

I realise that MyWireless has a high latency, but at present it is our only option and that is why I wish to verify its performance in this application. I have heard of instances of reasonable video/audio performance and acceptable latency using 512k MyWireless for international videoconferencing.

Has anyone here actually tried this?

 

[Wireless2]

During the day you will not get a constant speed above 384k for streaming media

The speed goes up and down, but averages for me on 256 at 200k, but the up and down dips will really affect
video conferencing

I have done conferencing on leased lines with no other users and it still needs huge bandwidth

Remember the 512K is shared between 30 users

Also I think constant streaming media is against the acceptable usage policy as on www.sentech.co.za