Wimax trial test results

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Hi there,

I received details from a Wimax trialist regarding speed, reliability, etc. The source is anonymous as well as the company for whom this person is trialing Wimax for.

What is the speed at which you connect?

On most days I connect at 100Mbps to the wimax tower some 13km away, from there my Internet speed is limited to 386kbps.
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Reliability?

I have had three separate days of it being off line, they where most likely upgrading something, however the one of the days I found it to be that I had unplugged the wimax plug.

Also lunchtime week days I find the speed to drop a bit, but lately I have not experienced that.
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Speed tests?

Gamco- but this one keeps changing
344.10kbps

Speed Test sentech

Your download speed is: 32.58
KBps, or 260.64 Kbps
The test took 16.421 seconds to complete

Your upload speed is: 14.22
KBps, or 113.78 Kbps
The test took 4.313 seconds to complete

http://www.speedtest.net/

From a my PC to a sever in Cape Town

Download 337kb/s

Upload 351kb/s

Latency 139ms

Distance 450mi

From a my PC to a sever in San Francisco

Download 362kb/s

Upload 314kb/s

Latency 678ms

Distance 10450mi

From a my PC to a sever in London

Download 359kb/s

Upload 319kb/s

Latency 241ms

Distance 5750mi

From a my PC to a sever in Singapore

Download 323kb/s

Upload 333kb/s

Latency 710ms

Distance 5650mi
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Throughput?

My transfer rate is about 42KB/sec when downloading something off the net (starts a bit higher but moves down to that and stays there), for example I downloaded Winamp 5.93MB in 2 min and 33 sec.

However while using P2P the speed is about 1KB/s , I was hoping to get the rest of Season 3 of Boston Legal, but its just to slow.
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Capping?

No Capping, they told me they need me to download as much as I can, as this is a trial. No shaping, only with P2P
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Sounds good. And what about installation?

As far as installation goes: The installation was fairly simple, the techy came with a lap top on my roof looked for signal, when they found it they installed a box-looking antenna on my roof, took about one hour.
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I hope that this is info you can use. If you need more info, I'll see what I can do.
 
WOW! looks promising! rofl sorry to sound so dumb! but CSS or BF2 :)

*EDIT*

looked at it again, 384k I though Telkom's WiMAX was 512k *wink* *wink*
 
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100Mbps to the base station! This is a good access technology. Now all we need is an NGN.
 
56kMan said:
My latency on ADSL is 63ms and my distance is 800mi.
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I get about the same as the WiMAX trail on my 64k wireless connection Ping 180 to CPT
 
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Yeah, Upload is a real biatch on adsl384, the latency looks real good! On my adsl384 i get about the same figures all accept the upload, that is.

 
And so the information starts to seep through. Keep it coming!
 
I've been using WiMax for about 6-7 weeks now. Moreless the same test results as the guy above. I'm not at home during the day, so i mostly use it for a few hours at night. The first few days it dropped the connection about once every 3-4 hour session, but now it seems much more stable; hardly ever dropping the connection. Infact, its been a few weeks since it last dropped. Download speeds at night and over weekends seem stable at around 38KB/sec - 42KB/sec(easynews;)). I think I've dowloaded about 30gigs over the past few weeks.
 
384k???, what a joke

Come on Telkom/Mweb, what happend to the "excess of 10mbit" you were aiming for.

Anyone who has been here realizes that they do this to protect their very lucrative ADSL market.
 
Sapphiron said:
384k???, what a joke

Come on Telkom/Mweb, what happend to the "excess of 10mbit" you were aiming for.

Anyone who has been here realizes that they do this to protect their very lucrative ADSL market.
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I reckon it will depend on the price coming to market.
Remember that the connection is symmetrical so that is 384Kb up and down.
A relief for people who don't even have access to a telephone line.

If this 384Kb connection is uncapped it may be quite a different story for the "hardcore" :p downloaders.

What speeds they will offer at inception is likely to be all minimum spec, so as they go along they can offer you faster and faster speeds for more money.
The way of the world in sales.
 
BTTB said:
I reckon it will depend on the price coming to market.
Remember that the connection is symmetrical so that is 384Kb up and down.
A relief for people who don't even have access to a telephone line.

If this 384Kb connection is uncapped it may be quite a different story for the "hardcore" :p downloaders.

What speeds they will offer at inception is likely to be all minimum spec, so as they go along they can offer you faster and faster speeds for more money.
The way of the world in sales.
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Sorry for being so cynical, but I trailed a Sentech Mywireless product.

symmetrical is good for VOIP which is a plus

It will never be uncapped.

Yeah they can bring out new specs as they are going along, staying slightly slower than ADSL and slightly more expensive.

OR

They could Trail the product at it's maximum speed and slowly roll the performance back to see what is the most they could get out of it.

THEN

they worry about how to sell and market it.

That is the problem, they are deploying it as a backup for ADSL rather than a compeditor.

The people who will make Wimax a success are the people who don't have ADSL accounts to protect

Remember the days of Megawan...
 
Sapphiron said:
384k???, what a joke

Come on Telkom/Mweb, what happend to the "excess of 10mbit" you were aiming for.

Anyone who has been here realizes that they do this to protect their very lucrative ADSL market.
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Welcome to South Africa!
 
the results aren't that impresive for a trial. The test will be once more people start coming online on the same frequency band. Anybody remember the speeds the initial trial members obtained on Iburst?
 
56kMan said:
100Mbps to the base station! This is a good access technology. Now all we need is an NGN.
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I don't think that's true, can WiMax even handle 100Mbps? It might be because there are only 10 people on the basestation, but you wouldn't be able to do this in a real commercial application.

This guy might be talking about his ethernet connection on his computer, he also thought there was downtime when he left his cable unplugged :p

The latency however is the interesting part, and it's not that impressive, especially for a trial.
 
I was fwd to this post by a friend of mine and being a residence of the States, could someone explain to me what's the purpose in placing a Capping of data a subscriber could receive in a month or year or etc.? Is it a business strategy or a technical?

Per WiMAX itself, does anyone know what version of WiMAX Telkom is currently offering? Because the latest news I found from their website states that they are using 802.16a which is "Ancient" in terms of technology, though it's a great start. Based on tests we are running in our lab (I'm a wireless comm R&D guy by trade), we've found that 802.16d provides a 30mb/s with about 25mile radius coverage, while 802.16e provides 1-3mb/s with about 1-2 miles radius coverage.

In all, I think it's great that WiMAX is being offer commercially especially for non-nomadic scenario allowing those that are "remote" area to get coverage. However, unless there's a strong competition w/in SA to offer wireless broadband connection, I don't see company to offer mobile connectivity at a competitive price which somewhat defeats the attractiveness of WiMAX (relative high speed in comparison with today's technology and mobility)

Anyhow, just thought I share my comments and some outside perspective.
 
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