I have an unwired connection as my only internet service at home. I get
poor signal strength and that's the only problem I have with it. One big
advantage right now is that our office ADSL has gone kaput (no sync at
all, tried 2 ADSL modems) and for the last 12 hours unwired has been
working quite well as a temporary replacement even though it's also on the
lowest signal level. We're on the border of Silverwater & Newington.
FYI, the signal is indicated like this:-
flashing red - no signal
red - low signal
orange - ok signal
green - best signal
At best I've seen orange at home. Took it to Jan's unit in Hornsby and got
green. Moving the modem about by approx 0.5m at a time can help. EG at the
office it's sitting on a chair on top of a table near a window. I'd
recommend it for roving tech's in Sydney.
It also broadcasts UDP packets (at least on the ethernet side) which tells
all sorts of stuff like temparature (they run very hot) and signal
strength, time, base station id, approx distance and probably more we
haven't worked out yet.
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Jason Rennie wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> At the meeting last month I noticed somebody dissed Unwired as slow and crap.
>
> Has anybody tried the service as I was thinking of getting it. Just
> the 256/64 connection.
>
> I'm guessing that with a router attached to the modem, there is no
> real problem with getting the whole thing to work with linux.
>
>
> Jason
>
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