Tree gone so is MyWi

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The municipality cut down a tree outside my window and I now I cant connect to MyWi anymore. I was connecting to Salt River Tower (22) but now it only connects to Milnerton tower (12) and won't connect.

Im hoping that the milnerton Tower is too far from Tygerhof and then I can cancel this crap and get it on with iburst... wishful thinking.

Was tech support any help. Well yes. They offered to grow me a new tree.
 
have you tried a pringles can?

or better yet, you can make up a simple parabolic reflector out of cardboard and tinfoil (google for instructions and plans). That way you can force the modem to talk to a particular tower.
 
Mylowbandwidth, the signal was probably bouncing off the tree.

I used to pick up a particular tower by pointing the cantenna towards the trees and almost 180 deg away from the tower

Get yourself a dish antenna. It works. Plus I see you need to boost your signal strength. A dish, gives it more stability and fewer disconnections.

And IC, do you actually work for Iburst??, because you sure are doing a lot of punting for them. Or are your comments all in jest.

I might agree with you that Iburst could be better than mywireless, but lets see what happens when the trial period is over.
 
For those of us who like to keep up to date:

Navini (www.navini.com) a staunch 802.20 supporter, jumped ship,
and joined the 802.16e club (WiMax).
This should not come as a surprise, as many industry analysts have
long declared 802.20 (iBurst) dead!

Why do you think that so much of the iBust backbone hardware brought
into SA was second-hand? Simply put .... it's "dying" technology that
appears not capable of competing with the likes of WiMax and 3G!
 
dbnnet said:
For those of us who like to keep up to date:

Navini (www.navini.com) a staunch 802.20 supporter, jumped ship,
and joined the 802.16e club (WiMax).
This should not come as a surprise, as many industry analysts have
long declared 802.20 (iBurst) dead!

Why do you think that so much of the iBust backbone hardware brought
into SA was second-hand? Simply put .... it's "dying" technology that
appears not capable of competing with the likes of WiMax and 3G!
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:eek:
 
What is MyWi?

For all you Network buffs out there, what does MyWi work on, 802.? and how is that standard regarded in the industry?
 
http://www.ipwireless.com/technology/

IPWireless Mobile Broadband technology is a packet data implementation of the international 3GPP Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) standard. Time-division-duplex (TDD) is used, according to the 3GPP UMTS UTRA UMTS TDD standard, allowing operation on unpaired spectrum anywhere in these bands. Chip rates of 3.84 and 7.68 megachips/sec (Mcps) are supported, for operation in channelization of 5 and10 MHz (6 and 12 MHz in the MMDS band).
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Actually, the answer is Wimax, and as I understand it is coming sometime later this year, and yes, with our favourite service provider.

That is when I believe the time will come to ditch Iburst, mywireless and adsl unless they come up with some really good incentives.

But at the moment, I am reasonably happy, now that there are less people on the mywireless service, so speeds (up to the 1st 500kB of download), have improved dramatically. Thereafter it stinks. And no packet loss.

Check out my speeds on the survey. Notice the blips, I was downloading something else at those times. http://www.tcpiq.com/tcpIQ/LineSpee...ountryId=196&ConnectionId=10458&UserId=146650


By the way, I see some people are having problems with the speeds on iburst, wonder why? Maybe you should form a CUG and speak to them:)
 
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Bwahahahaha.

Yeah...iBurst beta testers are doing EXACTLY what iBurst hoped they'd do. I saw an article that iBurst have 1500 users already. They're aiming for 15000 by the end of the year!!!

If you wanna get iBurst, wait till atleast June when the network is well saturated, and see what the users are saying then :)
 
dbnnet said:
Why do you think that so much of the iBust backbone hardware brought into SA was second-hand?
Click to expand...

Is this really true or thumb sucked ???.
 
tibby.dude,
I can't comment on the lastest hardware currently being installed, but certainly the initial equipment (installed in 2004) was second hand.
This enabled them to build a network cheaply and quickly.
This was certainly no secret, as many people in the Telecomms
industry were aware of this, and the actual installers were commenting
on this at the time.
 
1st rule of marketing: Charge what the market will bear.

iBurst has no reason to reduce prices as long as there is no realistic price competition. The introduction of WISPs, or a radical change in pricing or service from Sentech, Vodacom, or (probably most likely) Telkom, or the introduction of realistically priced 3G offerings from MTN (in June?) are the only ways iBurst will be forced to change pricing (I don't think Cell C has the infrastructure to offer 3G).

This kind of price setting is known as "skimming"...make as much profit as you can before there is strong competition.
 
ic said:
just think how dangerous the customers would be if they knew the exact cost prices & how much profit was being made on each & every little thing...
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What customers? :rolleyes:
 
ic,

Check: Options > Web Features > check if box for "Load Images" and "For the originating web site only" are checked.

If so, try with "For the originating web site only" unchecked.

-a
 
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