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actual speed

Judging by the acitvity in this forum, the service must be non-problematic.

reply to tim006
After using it for a couple of months now my speeds vary depending on the time of day, how much other traffic is going on (it's shared bandwidth as you may already know).

I'm thinking about going VOIP and it's kind of a pain to figure out how much bandwidth I should give (using QOS) to my voice connection as it changes daily. Anyone have any ideas, let me know.

Here are some speed test numbers if you are interested.

2004-09-15 11:46:47 Speed test @ www.dls.net 1311/1210 kbps
2004-09-13 10:46:38 Speed test @ www.dls.net 1313/1157 kbps
2004-08-21 20:41:06 Speed test @ www.dls.net 2080/1739 kbps
2004-07-29 09:30:22 Speed test @ www.dls.net 2438/2191 kbps
2004-07-26 21:59:05 Speed test @ www.dls.net 2017/2373 kbps
2004-07-26 21:56:24 Speed test @ www.dls.net 1644/2276 kbps
2004-07-26 20:10:43 Speed test @ www.dls.net 1493/1966 kbps
2004-07-22 12:40:45 Speed test @ www.dls.net 2053/1662 kbps
2004-07-22 12:39:11 Speed test @ www.dls.net 1621/1632 kbps
2004-06-22 15:21:33 Speed test @ www.dls.net 2261/2216 kbps
2004-06-21 09:25:12 Speed test @ www.dls.net 2449/690 kbps
2004-06-19 18:57:28 Speed test @ www.dls.net 2562/2506 kbps
2004-06-18 16:02:37 Speed test @ www.dls.net 2511/2423 kbps
2004-06-18 11:58:43 Speed test @ www.dls.net 2093/2166 kbps
2004-06-17 11:55:37 Speed test @ www.dls.net 1771/2060 kbps

reply to tim006
That's nowhere near 10,000! hehe. What if you were right under a tower? would it be faster? Do you think the bandwidth is just crowded? I have to face the fact that wireless could be the only thing available. Just trying to find the sweet spot before hand. Timber Trails is new sub division north of 72? Do you know the name of the subdivision S of 72, on tyler rd?
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we're all connected

Timber Trails is north of Big Timber, west of Tyrell Rd, south of 90 and 72.

I'm a few miles (2-3) from the tower according the map that the install tech was looking at on his laptop when they did the install a few months back.

There are other DLS.net wireless users on this board and one of them lives on the east side of Carpentersville. He is within site of the tower and gets 7-8 megabit up/down.

As you can see the speed depends on how close you are to a tower and if you are in line of sight.

Remember too that DLS.net only guarantees 256kbps up and down. That is a far cry from the max of 10/10 megabit up/down. But, compared to the alternatives out there right now, what else is going to give you (in my case) ~2 megabit up/down for $65/month? Not DSL or cable. It's just not available. Not now at least, in our subdivision.