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Re: Cobalt Broadband A friend told me about this site as I had just signed up for their service about a month ago. I was really surprised by what I had read since I haven't had a problem with their system at all and regularly run VPN sessions, FTP, and Gnutella (which I am sure they wouldn't be too thrilled about). Be that as it may, I needed a static IP address which they gave to me to run a mail server and my throughput/speeds have been upwards of 1.2Mbps fairly consistently - and that is probably due to their doubling the capacity of this market recently. Having worked for Cisco in a previous life, I can tell you that while not rocket science to make this technology work, alignment of the bridge is crucial. They actually are a Cisco shop with a large data center in Austin, which is how I came ot know them. But as long as the bridge is aligned properly, you should have no problems. If the wind, or something else, changes the azimuth on the bridge mounted outside your home, your service will suffer due to packet loss - since essentially they are missing the tower completely. Anyway, I thought I would say something positive given how dismal you guys seem to be!! | | |
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| Bear Creek,
I appreciate your reply.
I agree with you about wind and other factors that can effect your connectivity. My alignment should be more than sufficient. My signal is almost always -68.
My pole nevers moves, not even slightly. And it has been through some bad storms. But for some reasons I have aprox 50% retransmissions on average.
I have a couple questions about your connection, if you don't mind.
1. How far are you from the Tower? I know where Bear Creek is off of CR 200, which is not too far from there; but I assume you are a bit further down.
2. What is your signal strength on your radio?
If you would like you can email me at cobalt-in-fo@hotmail.com | |
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