Wireless Internet

smb · Post by **smb** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 9:06 am

Is anyone using wireless internet ? I'm testing a couple units from RioPlexWireless It's a bitexpnsive, but it's pretty fast.

DoPeY5007 · Post by **DoPeY5007** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 11:31 am

that is a crazy price

I have seen stuff that is 2x56k for like $59 a month

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 3:45 pm

$60 a month is not unreasonable for Wireless - but $300 is a lot to plunk down up-front on a modem.

smb · Post by **smb** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 4:32 pm

It has a built in antenna/receiver/decoder, so it's gonna be kind of pricey. it has about a 2-5% dropoff in bandwidth, but it's still fast. It's very portable as well.

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Mon Sep 29, 2003 6:17 am

Yep that sounds nut s to me!! And I am nearly desperate!

My isp is working on wireless now, waiting for the Antennas!
suposed to be $40 per month for unlimited service (up to 1.5mb).
Modem/antenna is supposed to cost me $100! Ya I'm jumping on it!!!
Matter of fact I will most likely be helping build it, and testing before it goes fully online. I am about the end of the line, close to the max distance it'll reach out.

128k and 256k doesn't sound that fast to me for wireless. I think satalite is way faster and not much more. Though I ended up hating Direc PC for various reasons!!

The Motarolla Canopy system is supposed to do 10mb! So 10mb shared amongst the users, and a T1 at the ISP would be a bottle neck

They must be limiting it back to a max your aloughed, not letting you get the full speed that is available.
Kinda like cable I think. You should fly when your the only one online at like 3am, but slow way down about 4-5pm when every-ones getting home from school and work. A shared bandwith type thing.