Robert Holmes wrote:
Charming people but their internet service sucks. My connection from them is currently running at about 300K instead of the 1.5M I'm paying for ($70 per month).I'm on a similar Motorola 600Mhz System run by the San Ildefonso corporation Tewacom.com and have a similar experience (paying $60/month). My service varies from 0-1.5M with ~.3M typical. I get almost total dropouts for minutes at a time. They continue to insist that my service is symmetric but it is rare that I get more than 50% of download on upload. I use: http://speakeasy.net/speedtest/ most of the time. If there is something inherently limited in these systems, I'd like to understand it. I don't like pestering people trying to do their job (TewaCom or Grappa) but I also like getting consistent, expected performance. Also because of the location of their radio towers (Santa Fe ski basin) their service gets even worse during the winter. Last winter they ended up giving everyone a rebate on one month's fee, though personally I'd have rather have the up-time than the cash.I'm one mile from the TewaCom Xmitter and I get little if any weather-related problems, but do seem to find dropouts and I seem to need to reboot the 600Mhz modem somewhere between several times over a few days to only once in a month.
I switched from 1.5M (nominally down) Satellite WildBlue (56k up) which was *never* down but averaged .5M down and .05 up with lots of lag. WildBlue also had monthly quotas (not sliding) which did not support iTunes-class downloads on a regular basis. Previously I was on dialup which I rarely got higher than 28K connection with effective speeds of maybe 50% of that. I think Wireless on this scale makes most sense only when there are no other choices. If DSL or Cable come available, I think they are a better answer.
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