help on wireless broadband?

[fishykea]

i know it's the wrong forum but does anyone know anything about wireless (not satelite) broadband?
i.e. am i going to get a better connection than isdn, which i have?

i'm going for the 512K bandwidth but will my cs days now be over?

 

[throdgrain]

The hardware forum would be thebest place to ask this m8

 

[smurkin]

Are you talking about a community broadband service ? There was one run by manchester city council in the area I used to live in...pretty fascinating idea....dont know if its any good tho... (surely it should be better than isdn tho, and more than adequate for cs?!?)

 

[Deadmanwalking]

If i remember from reading about trials here and in the US, it is not much differant from having a wireless LAN in your house/office (Latency wise anyway). This may be utter crap and im hoping Jonty or Embattle can spread some more detailed light on it as friends of mine after considering it when it is rolled out here by BT.

 

[throdgrain]

From what ive spent considerable time reading this seems to be just the same as adsl, its still connected to your house, just that instead of lan cables it's wireless, but in your house only.
So I cant understand how they say you cant get adsl at your address but you can get wireless , Fishy, because right up to the phone socket it must be exactly the same ??

 

[smurkin]

could be cable-based throd ? that would explain alot...less digging up of streets.

 

[throdgrain]

Yeah I was looking at the blurb Fishy has, it appears , im guessing to be cable based, a line of sight thing of some description.
it appears to have 512 download and upload too! Im mystifed ..

 

[Wilier]

Fishy,

You may want to check this site. I think this is probably what your talking about.

Im not sure of your location, so perhaps it wont be covered yet, but from what WRBB say, the whole country should be covered within a couple of years.

Just an example of what theyre quoting:

Sunshine "Light" offers 16,000 megabytes of bandwidth for £18 a month at a rate of between 11mbs and 54mbs (meaning that , at 11mbs, thats 20 times faster than 512 ADSL)

 

[]SK[]

What a load of shit, they suggest a 54Mb service for each user? The wireless connection maybe 54MB if your lucky and its only you on it and even then it only local between you and the basestation. But what bandwidth do you get to the internet? Thats bad and very misleading advertising. Someone should report that imo.

Wow I just saw they are looking to install it in a place where we are doing the exact same service...

Humm it seems they are also using linksys kit?

 

[dread]

Personal computer world magazine have 2 very good articles on wireless broadband this month. From what they are saying coverage will be extremly limited and any claims that most of the UK being covered in 2 years are highly unrealistic.
The UK government have screwed us again it seems. When the licence for the 3.4GHz spectrum was auctioned off the government did not ensure the winning company (Pound Radio)would use it for wireless broadband, as originally intended. They are now going to use it as a way setting up 3G mobile masts without laying cable. It has major problems to, including - if someone put up a 2.4Ghz floodlight at hundreds of watts on the house or football pitch, WiFi wont work for hundreds of yards around it!