Re: Clearwire

On Thursday 20 October 2005 09:57, Justin Dieters wrote:
> Has anyone had any experience with Clearwire? (http://www.clearwire.com)
>
> Apparently they just started offering wireless internet service in
> Anchorage and Eagle River. Right now at our office, we are pretty much
> stuck with MTA, and we are paying $100+/month for 768 DSL (which, in
> practice, is closer to 512 than 768), static IP, and 10GB monthly limit,
> which we occasionally go over, for $20 for each GB)
>
> Clearwire is offering 1.5MB/256 wireless service, static IP, and no
> transfer limit for about $75/month (or $65/month if you pay yearly).
> Clearly a better deal. My main concern with this would be quality of
> service issues. I imagine worst case, we'd have to rig up an external
> antenna - we are currently in the first floor of a two-story brick
> building.
>
> Security might also be an issue - we use Smoothwall Corporate for our
> firewall, and remote clients use a VPN for anything that might pose a
> security risk (mainly, access to our accounting server so employees at
> remote sites can submit timecards)

You might ask them how their routers prioritize packets. I worked at a place
for a while that used Alaska Wireless Cable (Fairbanks). Their routers
prioritized in such a fashion that if there were just a few packets, they
might get a bit delayed. You didn't get bumped up in the list until there
was a stronger, constant, data flow. So, this was fine for web and FTP
transfers, but it made interactive sessions (ssh, or X over ssh) infuriating
since latency was ridiculous for the typing and the updates for X.

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