I currently have 2 T1's non-load sharing meaning one is purley for redundancy. A performance test to www.toast.net averages anywhere from 1.2 MB to 1.4MB. I am not throtting anything at this point, I have not found the need to. If the bandwidth ios there it maight as well get used. I guarantee no less than 384K. But as a spin on it I charge per computer. Additonal computers are an extra cost, 33% basically of the first one. Example, $30.00/mo (term agreement) for the first one and $10.00/mo. for each additional. It fit well into my startup business plan to be able to provide a service at a low cost to people with one computer but make additional $$$ for people with mnore than one. More cash flow - no more cost, and a kick a** service.
In the event I decide to throttle it back I throw out the additional computer charges. I have that covered in the service agreement. People talk aboth the air time issue you mention but what I found is that the rate changes that may take place have a more negative affect on the throughput than the air time. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Covert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:02 PM Subject: RE: [smartBridges] smartbridges or not > We run something similar, 3 APPOs into 3 PacWireless Horiz sectors. Not so > much as a glitch out of those APPOs since March. Had one problem with one > aBO, but EC took care of that RMA right away. No sweat... > > We run 11mbps on the thought that signalling at a slower rate eats available > air time. I want those that can go fast to get their traffic into the tower > and get off the air as fast as they can to leave more air time for the > slower signal links to use. We do all throttling in the NOC with a Mikrotik > box. > > What speed of data thruput do you get with that 2Mps lock? 256K? > > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Derek Breiland > Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [smartBridges] smartbridges or not > > > I myself have found them to work very well up to this point, 35 > customers on after 4 weeks split between 3 AP's using Maxrad MSP23013 s120 > degree sectors on a 160' tower (2 customers on one AP and the other 33 split > between the other 2). > > I have all of my AP's and clients forced to connect at 2Mps. I have > found this provides for better stability from what I have seen. An AP > continually attempting to change rates affects everyone, not just that > individual customer. 11Mps is not worth anything if you continually have to > re-associate and are changing the rate at which the connection runs. > 64 bit encryption is ample - 128 bit is way overkill (processor intensive > for any AP at any price and reduces throughput). Any data needing to be > that secure needs to be done through https or vpn. > > Any gear is only as good as the configuration of it. I think for the > price it is the best bang for the buck - my opinion. A lot of the "buggy" > things that other WISP's refer to I do not see at this point so... It could > be they have more users on and I have yet to see it, I don't know. > I at this point have no regrets of going with the SmartBridges products and > I am pretty confident that I will not have a change of heart on that. > > VERY IMPORTANT - if you have other WISP's in the area using 802.11b I would > be very careful in choosing what you are going to use and 802.11b problably > is not the best choice if that is indeed the case. > > Call it buggy software or whatever, what I do hear right now is the rate > of absolute hardware failure is low. That is extremely important. > > There is a lot of info in this group to take advantage of, resources > from real life WISP's is a huge benefit. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 9:56 PM > Subject: [smartBridges] smartbridges or not > > > > Hi > > > > I am going to setup a WISP in Australia, i need some advice about wether > or > > not to use smartbridges equipment?? > > > > ----------ANNOUNCEMENT---------- > > Don't forget to register for WISPCON IV > > http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm > > > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe > smartBridges <yournickname> > > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe > smartBridges) > > Archives: http://archives.part-15.org > > > > > ----------ANNOUNCEMENT---------- > Don't forget to register for WISPCON IV > http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe > smartBridges <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe > smartBridges) > Archives: http://archives.part-15.org > > ----------ANNOUNCEMENT---------- > Don't forget to register for WISPCON IV > http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm > > The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List > To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> > To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) > Archives: http://archives.part-15.org > ----------ANNOUNCEMENT---------- Don't forget to register for WISPCON IV http://www.wispcon.info/us/wispcon-iv/wispcon-iv.htm The PART-15.ORG smartBridges Discussion List To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type subscribe smartBridges <yournickname> To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in the body type unsubscribe smartBridges) Archives: http://archives.part-15.org
