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 with
unlimited SIM data plans instead.
A local ISP is proposing to fit their wireless equipment to the roof to give
us 100Mb/s (not sure if this is total or per household, trying to find out.
From the website I suspect it would be 200Mb/s shared between roughly ten
households).
Ordinarily I'd be holding out for FTTP but we're in a listed building and it's
hard to see it happening any time soon. We've been contacted before about this
but the management co. don't seem interested and I doubt there are enough
people living here for any ISP to make a good ROI. It's frustrating because
were are in the city centre, and a line runs nearby.
My questions are:
- Is FWA reliable enough to depend upon?
- Would it be an upgrade over my SIM card setup (where I average about
50Mb/s)?
Any thoughts or insights would be appreciated. They are currently trying to
measure interest and I'm wondering whether or not to get onboard.
