 cmsPremium
join:2007-03-30
Ottawa, ON | Average speeds and latency with your Fixed Wireless? I am in Kitchener-Waterloo and our Bell lines are fried in our neighbourhood. Bell will not fix them (have had 3rd parties with Nexxia/Bell connections look into this) until they roll out ADSL2. Sadly, the ADSL2 hardware is already in place but they won't switch it on until more bandwidth is available upstream. I have Rogers 7mbit service at the moment, but the 60GB that will be enforced as of June 2008 is unreasonable. I am not paying for a higher service class, as 7mbit is the max I can achieve. Xplornet Fixed Wireless via Motorola Canopy is available, and I am weighing the pros and cons of this alternative.
Basically, I would like to know what sort of latency, speed, and your distance to the tower. Also, what frequency of radio do you use? Is the service usable with torrents and streaming? Anyone run into a wall with lots of data transfer and have their service degraded? It's hard to sort the few reviews on this site, as most have the KA or KU satellite service. I've heard from others that the MO Canopy system is pretty crappy, but I'd like to hear from users to see what they say.
Any information at all would be extremely helpful in my decision. Thanks! |
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Brad R
join:2007-05-06
Collingwood, ON | I'm an Xplornet satellite customer, so I can't answer your question directly, but you may want to visit the forum at »www.xplornetsucks.com/forums/ and ask there. (They have a forum specifically for wireless users.)
From what I'm reading there, you won't be happy. It sounds like Xplornet allows a short burst at your "maximum" data rate (say, 3 Mbps) and then quickly throttles you down to a few hundred Kbps. And I think they're trying to restrict torrents as well.
But try that other web site; you can talk to some actual Xplornet wireless users there.
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They HEAVILY throttle their connection and block all ports unless you pay them an additional $10/mo on top of your 'speed choice' for a static IP address. If you go to speedtest.net you get a rosy picture of xplornet's dl/ul speeds - roughly what they adverse because they burst their data flow for 10-15 seconds at the advertised rates. After this 10-15 seconds the traffic shapers kick in. If you look at sustained dl/ul that you get a good picture of how badly they throttle their connection. I have a '3 Mbps' connection. This should theoretically give me speeds of around 366 kB/s. Their sustained UL/DL speeds are 80-84 kB/s (and I've got a solid signal to noise ratio). After talking to a tech, their 1.5 Mbps service has a sustained cap of 70 KB/s (should be 183 Kb/s) and their 5 Mbps service is capped at sustained 100 KB/s(should be 610 KB/s). To summarize, you get ROUGHLY 1/4 OF THE ADVERTISED SPEED. Their upload rates are even worse - marginally better than dialup - and I'm not joking, but I won't get into that on this post.
Check out Bell's WiMAX or ANY other service than Xplornet unless it's your only option. Stick with Rogers, you have no idea how shitty Xplornet is. |
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cmsPremium
join:2007-03-30
Ottawa, ON | reply to cms
Thank you for your feedback. I have opted for the Rogers service for the mean time. |
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