So here goes the start of another one of my quite possibly insane ideas ;)

Currently, im sitting on an adsl line, the 1mbit upstream is quite the contention point, with the use of the likes of dropbox hard-coded to be traffic shaped in router at this point, logically the move to vdsl would be the best bet, however That would be marginal and potentially not really work out anyway.. Depending on isp you ask, its a Yes or a No and from a 
The second part of that being, i enjoy my sub 10ms latency... DLM can be a bit of a pain with that.. (i know, im picky right!)

So, looking at alternative ideas the best option really being the fact that im covered by the Waiatarua tower thus 900mhz DC Although the Bethells tower Does seem to pop up a bit here (never knew this one had propped up, I thought the tinfoil hats down in the valley would have stopped that one like they wanted to but does explain why phone occasionally logs picking up 4G at home - I've never seen it, its always in the weee hours but apparently its there! based off details it would be 1800mhz..)

Hopefully johnR or Fraser can correct me on towers, as gist just doesn't give enough for me to calculate the realistic coverage of the bethells tower.

until 700mhz is added, i would expect its more likely that 3G would be the option for me, but that really brings me to my big questions..

Based off quick tests, 20~30/2~4mbit does not seem difficult to come by, although i know its regulated and thus expectations should be set a fair bit lower - ops there goes a ton of data for the month!


What is the RBI hardware (would be looking at having Fraser visit for the installation, thus Ultimate broadband) actually capable of? im making the assumption here that it will actually do DC-HSPA.
Secondly, is bridging possible, Without an ugly Double Natting situation(be it forwarded) on my hands - I cant get away from my pfsense build for the control it has over everything.
Lastly, What is Latency, Jitter and Upstream performance like Generally (once again, im making the assumption ild be over 3G here.)

Oh, and one final question being.. how well does it handle reasonably heavy loads (seeing 6K~8K states in a state table at peak is not uncommon - excessive, but not my personal traffic so outside of my control.)
Somewhat expect that to be a difficult one to answer as not many would see that sort of load but its worth ask anyway... 

Realistically, i know sub 10ms wont be feasible over RBI, I'm not expecting that at all. Likely i will keep at-lest an interleaving disabled dsl connection up for latency intensive traffic alone.
For the time-being, i'm ignoring the amount of Bandwidth that is actually used, That would be a bridge to cross later...