cyril7:

 

dimsim:

 

scottydafreak:

 

WISP's are definitely the way to go now where you can get them, IMHO. +1 for AONET here too which we just had installed a week ago. RBI 4G on Spark had slowly got worse over the year and at times became unusable out past Paki Paki HB - they're obviously getting more congested. Tried to get Tay lor Broadband on site but they dropped the ball and stopped responding so we gave up on them and I've since heard similar feedback from others. 

 

I reckon AONET have it right in that they won't install if the signal is not good enough - better than -75dBm I think. Doing so can affect other users sharing the tower too.

 

Our installer had told us we couldn't get it originally after a quick handheld survey, and then realized he wasn't pointing entirely in the right direction (in his defense the Te Mata hills were totally hidden by heavy morning fog) so in the end we got -60dBm which is great. In any case, I would think that any time they do install, you would easily get the 30Mb Down/10Mb Up max they cap you at given those signal strengths with the Ubiquiti Litebeam AC radios they use.

 

Now we get 30Mb down every time we've tested thus far, with no slow downs or drop-outs (one user uses VPN to work from home and would know about it). Kids aren't complaining about their youtube vids buffering any longer either.

 

And you can't beat the unlimited data cap for a mere $75 per month either. Money very well spent  

 

Oh, and also pleasantly surprised by the coverage provided with the little Mikrotik wifi router RB951Ui-2HnD they used (we went for the more powerful offering they had); it's beaten every other more expensive router I've tried in this large house. No 5Ghz is a little peeve, but not really missed it so far. I will definitely look at using more Mikrotik APs in future.

 

 

 

 

and I ooop.

 

 

 

You can beat kids as network outage detectors..

 

 

 

 

I should point out that in our politically correct day and age beating kids is not a good idea :)

 

Cyril