Re: FN-FORUM High speed, reliable Internet connection

date posted 7th January 2002 18:18

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Peter Small wrote:

>
> Hi Alex,
>
> I'm intrigued by the tele2 service. It is wireless instead of the
> conventional land line connection, with choosable upstream/downstreams.
>
> How does this wirless service compare with wire delivered services?

According to their sales blurb, the closest comparison is with a leased
line. It sounds fair to me.

> Are there any disadvantages? Does sharing bandwidth come into this at all?

- Coverage isn't great, as someone else mentioned

- you need line-of-sight to their microwave base station. A tree or a tower
block in the wrong place and you're scuppered.

- they /used/ to work on the basis of a monthly traffic limit and charge a
per-megabyte "overage fee" for anything over. That certainly put me off,
especially seeing as their was nothing in the contract to say you wouldn't
get charged for a Denial of Service (DoS) attack (though, to give 'em
their dues, the sales engineer did say they'd "charge fairly")

> On the face of it, this seems to be a very good option for my requiremnts

Best of luck with the site survey, then. :)

> peter

Best Regards,
Alex.
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