Re: [uknof] PeeringDB Satisfaction Survey

2020-11-16 Thread Leo Vegoda
Hi, If you run a network, an IXP, or a data centre but have not yet completed PeeringDB's 2020 survey, please do so this week. It should take less than three minutes and is an opportunity to influence the 2021 product roadmap. Thanks, Leo On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 10:29 AM Leo Vegoda wrote: > > P

Re: [uknof] Fixed Wireless Access

2020-11-16 Thread Paul Mansfield
On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 at 14:45, Ben Oliver wrote: > Does anyone here have any experience with Fixed Wireless Access? what's the budget, and how long do you think you'll be operating this before fibre might actually make it into your area? if it's worth spending some real money and get some fixed ra

Re: [uknof] Fixed Wireless Access

2020-11-16 Thread Glenn Garrett
Hi Ben I run Beeline Broadband which is a WISP in North Yorkshire and we have about 1200 customers who mostly seem very happy. If done correctly (e.g. using line-of-sight links) then I would say that FWA generally offers a much better experience than LTE, and is usually cheaper, more consistent

Re: [uknof] Fixed Wireless Access

2020-11-16 Thread Rob Cowan
FWA is what we do so I can certainly weigh in. If it's done correctly, FWA will easily give you an improvement on what you're currently getting via mobile, and should be plenty reliable for you. Difficult to say whether the 100Mbps will be just to you or total, but difinitely worth asking the qu

Re: [uknof] Fixed Wireless Access

2020-11-16 Thread Alan Goodman
Your experience will be entirely dependent upon the implementation of the suppliers network and how well the link is implemented. For example; I operated an FWA network connection across a local town for a number of years and it was effectively like stringing a fibre cable between the buildings wi

[uknof] Fixed Wireless Access

2020-11-16 Thread Ben Oliver
Does anyone here have any experience with Fixed Wireless Access? We have very poor ADSL in our (residential) building at the moment, people are getting speeds of around 5 down / 0.1 up. This has been awful while trying to work from home; I have ended up using a couple of Mikrotik WAP LTE kits w