Rick, (everyone)
So from that statement it appears that you are not using any bandwidth
limiting ore shaping at your AP or NOC.
Question 1. Is that for all Client levels or just your premium service.
Question 2. If you don't manage limits, was that always how you've
always done it? If not what made you decide to do it this way and what
kind of upstream hit did you take.
I am considering giving more speed but I am concerned about the
additional cost to me for abusers.
Steve Barnes
RCWiFi Wireless Internet Service
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
Behalf Of RickG
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:04 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Article
Every SHOULD know that most connections are "shared bandwidth". The
keyword is SHOULD. But, peole only hear what they want to and everyone
I talk to that isnt a techie thinks they get the speed they bought for
$50 or less all the time! The marketing gurus have screwed up again
just like the "unlimited use" policy fiasco. So, I always try to
educate my users but they percieve this as my issue and that my
service is inferiro with cable or dsl. Of course, thats what feeds the
marketing hype with the speed in the first place. So, what to do?
-RickG
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Jack Unger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear Mike,
You miss the point and possibly so does Josh. Because an AP can
deliver
"x" amount of throughput during a speed test between two location does
not mean that the same AP can deliver that amount of throughput to all
the customers simultaneously. The AP's throughput is shared between
all
of the end-users. When the AP maxes out, some (possibly all) of those
end-users must slow down. Some WISPs do not understand this and thus
they end up over-promising throughput and disappointing their
customers.
WISPs need to understand this or they will fail in this business and
give other WISPs a black eye in the process. Nobody is getting beat up
here; this has nothing to do with personalities. It has everything to
do
with the physics of data communications behavior. Everybody needs to
understand the true limits of their system.
Why is this? Because the "air" is a shared medium. Throughput delivery
takes real-world time in intervals we call "time-slots". You can only
carry so much throughput during one time-slot. There area only so many
time-slots (fractions of a second) in each second. This is why
throughput is limited. Only so many users can be on one AP at the same
time if they are requesting a large amount of the available AP
throughput. A lightly-loaded system may appear to be able to deliver
max
throughput simultaneously to those few customers but when the AP is
heavily loaded with users who are vying for a lot of throughput
simultaneously then most of them will need to slow down because not
everyone will get all the time slots they need to carry the high
throughput (ex: video streaming) levels that they are requesting.
Don't make this personal; that simply detracts from the very real
technical limits that a successful WISP must understand in order to
succeed and survive.
jack
Mike Hammett wrote:
I didn't get that at all.
It seems as though when anyone on this list suggests going faster
than 2 megabits, they get beat up. Sorry, Charlie, BA-II was outdated
long ago.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
From: Jack Unger
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 6:55 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Article
So how many of your customers can you serve 26 Mb to SIMULTANEOUSLY
from the same AP? It sounds like you are saying that you can serve all
of them 26 Mb simultaneously.
Josh Luthman wrote:
Each customer has an MT - capable of 26mbps to their home. Each
tower has a
Redline to it, throughput as high as the key purchased (54 megs).
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
Those who don't understand Wireless are condemned to reinvent it,
poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Jack Unger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Josh Luthman wrote:
My 5.8 customers can do 10+ megs...
The estimated throughput on the MTs is 30 to 31 megs. Real bandwidth
tests
show 26 megs.
So do you deploy one MT for each customer or do you share that 26 Mb
between all of your customers on that one access point?
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
Those who don't understand Wireless are condemned to reinvent it,
poorly.
--- Henry Spencer
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:40 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And which telco is this going to bail out? Money from Congress to
industry = pay off Unions for votes.
We will never, ever, ever, ever qualify.
Another headliner article I read on this will redefine "broadband" as
over
10 Meg.
Nothing like disqualifying almost the entire WISP industry...
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
<insert witty tagline here>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Harnish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'WISPA General List'" <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Article
Jeff,
Just to let you know, I am in Washington DC this week participating
in
the
events below. WISPA has signed on as a supporter of the Call to
Action
to
define the Nationwide Broadband Strategy. It was great to see all
the
players of the Broadband Industry working together to attempt to
bring
the
US back up to the top of the Broadband Access ladder. It will be a
busy
three months while this strategy is defined and presented to the
Obama
Administration.
Respectfully,
Rick Harnish
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Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 1:21 PM
To: 'WISPA General List'
Subject: [WISPA] Article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/02/AR200812
0203
164_pf.html
New Coalition Drawing Up Nationwide Broadband Access Strategy
By Cecilia Kang
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 3, 2008; D03
President-elect Barack Obama has said getting affordable high-speed
Internet
service to every American home would create jobs, fuel economic
growth
and
spark innovation. Yesterday, representatives from technology and
telecommunications companies, labor unions and public interest groups
frequently at odds with one another agreed to provide the next
president
with a roadmap for how to accomplish those goals.
That map could include tax breaks, low-interest loans, subsidies and
public-private partnerships to encourage more investments in
upgrading
and
building out high-speed networks, representatives from Google, AT&T
and
public interest group Free Press said during a panel discussion on
broadband
policy that also served as a coming-out party for their newly formed
coalition.
The details of how to meet those goals still must be worked out by
the
group, whose aim is to bring more affordable high-speed Internet
access
to
every consumer.
Many of the group members have been at odds with each other on
whether
the
government should set limits on how much spectrum a company can
hold, the
use of unlicensed devices on fallow broadcast airwaves and net
neutrality --
the notion that network operators should be prevented from blocking
or
slowing Internet traffic. The formation of the group is an effort to
move
beyond their differences.
"The coalition is a positive in that it demonstrates we agree that we
have
a
broadband problem, which not everyone was willing to admit to two
years
ago," said Ben Scott, policy director at Free Press and a member of
the
group. "The key is whether we'll see this group produce policy
solutions
that will require difficult choices."
At stake is the nation's ability to compete technologically and
economically, the group said. The United States has dropped from the
top
10
nations for broadband access, speeds and price in the last several
years.
The coalition is pushing for a federal plan that would provide access
to
high-speed Internet service, much as the government did with
electricity,
roads and phone service.
Obama famously used the Internet for outreach during his campaign and
received 370,000 donations online. He's proposed using blogs, social
networking tools and community Web pages known as wikis to connect
citizens
to government agencies. And Obama has argued for massive upgrades to
technology infrastructure such as high-speed, or broadband, Internet.
So far the coalition's plans to increase broadband usage mirrors
Obama's
plan, but there could be disagreement over deployment, analysts said.
Communications Workers of America President Larry Cohen said the
union
supports a proposal by Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) to
increase
definitions for broadband to 10 megabits per second for downloads by
2010.
The current definition for broadband speed in the United States is
768
kilobits per second downstream, which is far below standards in many
other
nations.
Achieving that goal at prices acceptable to consumers, however, would
be
expensive for telecom and cable network operators. Some in the
coalition
could push for laws that would achieve lower prices and higher speeds
through more wireless and telecom competitors, but that could cause
further
disagreement among members, Scott said.
Some have already suggested requesting funds from the federal
economic
stimulus plan for broadband deployment. Yesterday, an aide to House
Speaker
Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Pelosi was in favor of that idea.
AT&T chief lobbyist Jim Cicconi said the company has moved closer to
the
view of public interest groups and Google that the Web should be open
for
all users without discrimination of technology and content on their
network.
But unlike Free Press and consumer groups, AT&T opposes new laws or
rules
on
net neutrality, saying Federal Communications Commission rules are
sufficient, and any violation should be handled on a case-by-case
basis.
"There will be significant outstanding debates that will be very
tough
and
there will still be daylight between the groups on many, many
issues,"
said
Rebecca Arbogast, an analyst at investment firm Stifel Nicolaus. "But
both
sides are in a phase right now where they are emphasizing how much
they
share in terms of their views on what is an appropriate framework for
looking at this issue."
Jeff Broadwick
Sales Manager, ImageStream
800-813-5123 x106 (US/Can)
+1 574-935-8484 x106 (Int'l)
+1 574-935-8488 (Fax)
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