Wireless Users Chat → Do you get the speeds you pay for ?

Spurred from another thread, I'm quite interested in hearing from others.

What speeds are you paying for from your WISP ? (ie 1.5/384)

What average speeds are you getting from your WISP ? (ie 1600/392)

Are you happy with what you're paying for ?

For me, my rate is CIR 1.5, and MIR 8. I usually see between 4 and 7 Mb/s - with an average of say 5.5 Mb/s. It is a synchronous connection, so I see those speeds up and down. Yes, I am happy!

What about you ??

I/m happy that your happy

Well my isp has a relay point on my tower so its free but I used to get around 3mbit/s U/D.
Now I get around 1.5 at good times like now at 4:00 am. During the day more like 100kbit U/D and get disconnected every 10 minutes.

I've called and emailed them lots of times. They say "the network is being worked on at the moment" or last time I called "yeah there is a problem we have some people working on it now". Yeah right... that was weeks ago.

My WISP caps my bandwidth to about 500kpbs up and down during weekdays. In the evening and weekends, I usually see 900-1000kpbs.

For the price I'm paying ($70/month), I'm only marginally happy. Comcast recently turned on service in my area, and I may switch when my WISP contract is up.

I am paying $39/mo for 512 up/down minimum speed...

some of my last speed tests..

2004-10-10 16:41:07 Speed test @ pdx.speakeasy.net 1238/669 kbps
2004-10-05 22:13:06 Speed test @ pdx.speakeasy.net 1869/718 kbps
2004-10-05 22:12:39 Speed test @ pdx.speakeasy.net 1656/602 kbps
2004-10-05 22:11:58 Speed test @ pdx.speakeasy.net 1062/651 kbps
2004-10-02 00:53:26 Speed test @ pdx.speakeasy.net 2269/1109 kbps
2004-09-30 23:50:34 Speed test @ pdx.speakeasy.net 2892/1053 kbps
2004-09-30 23:50:08 Speed test @ pdx.speakeasy.net 2032/1080 kbps
2004-09-28 22:59:59 Speed test @ pdx.speakeasy.net 2090/580 kbps

I am happy

I'm paying $40 for 768/768. Most of my speed tests are right around 700/700 day or night. I'm pretty happy with that. I only have a local cable company as an alternative ($45 for 512/128 with actual speeds of 300/80). Until the RT up the street gets turned up and DSL is available the WISP is the way to go.

Christopher

Currently paying 39$ monthly for unlimited use and 1.5Kb up and Down. On average I get the advertised speed but on occasion when they are fixing equipment my speeds can drop. For the price and no contract I am happy. I would be happier with DSL or Cable, but I can't get it in my area.

2004-10-20 19:25:52 EST: 7187 / 6307
Your download speed : 7359551 bps, or 7187 kbps.
A 898.3 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 6458557 bps, or 6307 kbps.

Happy

nope...on average, nope...average speeds...

900 kbps down / 300 kbps up

advertised connection speeds: 1 MB down / 384 kbps

ping rates on average: less than 15 ms to tower, 50 - 100 ms to popular web servers (google, yahoo, etc.); however, there are periods of intensive use by other subscribers where ping rates are between 300 - 700 ms, while better than Satellite, it kind of reminded me of Satellite Internet...which sucks!

Unfortunately, my WISP has admitted that they've over-subscribed one of their POPs (point of presence) and is almost complete with construction and configuration of a second POP on the same peak where they will move over 1/2 their customers to the new POP, which should make their service more reliable.

512/512

210-310/45-295 actual (range)

12%-20% packet loss

$50/mo

better than dial-up...sometimes

$50.00/Month
768/768 No Caps
Static IP
Allowed to run non-commercial servers
Actual Speed around 750/750

:)

Nope!!! advertised 1500 up down getting 500 down 700 up $50 month.

SkynetAccess in Northern Virginia, 1.5M/512K -

2004-10-12 11:38:48 Speed test @ wdc.speakeasy.net 1356/481 kbps
2004-10-09 17:52:01 Speed test @ wdc.speakeasy.net 1378/518 kbps
2004-09-26 11:30:17 Speed test @ wdc.speakeasy.net 1496/1165 kbps
2004-09-22 23:10:23 Speed test @ wdc.speakeasy.net 1298/447 kbps

A few months old but pretty consistent.

$79.00/mo ($59.00/mo for only one Static IP)
3 Static IPs
No Blocked Ports
good latency

Been very happy with their service over last year.

-alec

»www.texasairnet.com is the WISP I started using for our Midlothian Texas office (just south of Dallas/Ft.Worth.

They promise 512 kbps but I'm seeing 600-700 up and anywhere from 1200-2800 down. Price per month: $49.99

I called concerning installation and within 6 hours I was hooked up and running.

So far I give them 2 thumbs up.

I pay 74.99 month for 512 up/dn but I usually get 1.5/577 only other choices are dial up or Satellite and after two years of Direcway I jumped for wireless when I moved into there area and have never looked back. Yes I am very happy.....by the way anyone need a sat dish....lol still have it.

I pay $50/mo for 500 up and down.
Avg speed 400 down 300 up.

We live out a ways and the options were few so I am much happier now, compared to the max 33k dialup I used for 2 years.