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t92300

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#142859 26-Mar-2014 23:13

Hi

Just wanting to see whats out there for rural internet users, my wife complains every now and then about the speed that we have.
We live in southland are on woosh wireless at the moment on the 30GB
Air 30 Chill-Out $59.95 plan.

For those familar with woosh see our average signal delta below

Is there anything better that I can get for a similar price?

Wish I could get fiber, the school just down the road has it.

We do not currently have a phone line(not that I think we could get any sort of DSL if we had a phone line)

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#1013524 26-Mar-2014 23:13

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#1013545 26-Mar-2014 23:39

Southland is large area can you narrow it down?

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#1013546 26-Mar-2014 23:42

If the school has it there are programs that are going about where you can get a WiFi link to the school and use bandwidth. Inquire with them. Only problem is that it has the Ministry's filter on so none of this pron we all know people like to look at.

t92300

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#1013874 27-Mar-2014 13:55

https://www.google.co.nz/maps/place/Tuturau/@-46.2621466,168.9120037,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0xa82cd83b2ec9a5a7:0x500ef8684797660

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#1013883 27-Mar-2014 14:24

t92300: https://www.google.co.nz/maps/place/Tuturau/@-46.2621466,168.9120037,12z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0xa82cd83b2ec9a5a7:0x500ef8684797660

im sure johnR would be able to give more information for you, but looks like RBI is due within the next year on the upside..

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kiwirock

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#1014031 27-Mar-2014 17:34

I used to feel your pain.

I had Woosh about 5 years back, 1.5Mbps download and only 128Kbps upload then and it was horrible. Fortunately I live where DSL is again so I'm never looking back.

I found the biggest issue apart from 1.5Mbps (which would scrape by on Youtube 240-360p videos) was the latency. The average latency was around 300ms which made websites with lots of small components in them take ages to load.

Here's hoping Vodafone can service you better. How many K's are you from the nearest town?

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#1014037 27-Mar-2014 17:45

kiwirock: <Snip>. How many K's are you from the nearest town?

The nearest Exch is 3km North of the School (as pinned on the OPs Google Maps link)

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#1014132 27-Mar-2014 20:07

Give Trevor a call at Velocitynet
When I last spoke with him about a year ago, he was switching customers over from woosh all over the place down there.
http://www.velocitynet.co.nz/

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#1014134 27-Mar-2014 20:09

TimA: If the school has it there are programs that are going about where you can get a WiFi link to the school and use bandwidth. Inquire with them. Only problem is that it has the Ministry's filter on so none of this pron we all know people like to look at.

These may be slowing down now that the ministry of education has changed their rules about ISP's attaching radios to school buildings - its no longer an agreement with the board and the ISP as I now understand. I think its a result of those nutcases in Otaki? complaining about the school wifi.

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t92300

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#1014200 27-Mar-2014 21:54

InstallerUFB:
kiwirock: <Snip>. How many K's are you from the nearest town?

The nearest Exch is 3km North of the School (as pinned on the OPs Google Maps link)

Does that mean we could get xDSL or is that still out of range? We are not far from the school. I thought all exchanges were in town. I would still need a phone line in.

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#1014201 27-Mar-2014 21:57

raytaylor: Give Trevor a call at Velocitynet
When I last spoke with him about a year ago, he was switching customers over from woosh all over the place down there.
http://www.velocitynet.co.nz/

Thanks Ray
I seen them a while ago but they were only offering capped plans with it being expensive if you go over, but it looks like they have now changed it and it looks better so might have to give them a try.

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#1014284 28-Mar-2014 01:57

Looks like the website has had an overhaul since Christmas too, more working links.

I wonder what kind of technology he uses is, and what the latency is like. I think that's Trevor from active alarm services in Bond street? I've seen quite a collection of microwave dishes there. Although an IT firm and everyone else here in town floods the 2.4GHz spectrum now, including me.

I've seen two Velocity net SSID's on the 2.4GHz band in town, two on the same channel and I think one up a tower at Rugby Park.

I'd would hope it's not just all shared public spectrum gear on Wi-Fi but I guess for rural it's not so bad.

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#1014301 28-Mar-2014 07:49

Hi All

First full disclosure I work for Velocitynet

To the OP if you pm me your address I will let you know what we can offer you

Ray the rules around ISP using School Fibre have changed i will get Trevor to send the info to you (may not be today) but in a nut shell The school aka the Board can enter a non exclusive agreement with a commercial operator to provide internet access via the schools fibre with some restrictions.

Kiwirock, We are based out of the Alarm Centre building in Bond Street (active Alarms are in Victoria Ave) We do use the public band for our network but as you say in the Rural setting this is not an issue as there is not the over crowding out there. As for latency we try to have a max of 2 wireless "hops" between the Tower and a fibre connection so this helps (sometimes this is not possible).

Also as you mentioned we do have equipment on the light tower at rugby park but at this stage we are not using it although it is powered on and broadcasting our SSID

Coverage wise we have towers in the following locations
Forest Hill
Hedgehope
Ferndale x2 (back of Mataura)
Centre Bush
Wyndham

We have plans for many more and will keep an updated list on the website which we plan to keep more up to date. Also we are on facebook http://www.facebook.com/velocitynetltd

If anyone has any more questions feel free to flick me a pm or nigel at velocitynet dot co dot nz

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#1014948 29-Mar-2014 09:31

kiwirock: Looks like the website has had an overhaul since Christmas too, more working links.

I wonder what kind of technology he uses is, and what the latency is like. I think that's Trevor from active alarm services in Bond street? I've seen quite a collection of microwave dishes there. Although an IT firm and everyone else here in town floods the 2.4GHz spectrum now, including me.

I've seen two Velocity net SSID's on the 2.4GHz band in town, two on the same channel and I think one up a tower at Rugby Park.

I'd would hope it's not just all shared public spectrum gear on Wi-Fi but I guess for rural it's not so bad.

Same technology as us, and a test i have just done is
10.2ms average to a subscriber at te paerahi / porangahau beach from Napier network core over 94 kms of radio links.
From their rooftop radio, trademe is about 32ms away.

Not sure about trevor, bur we only use 2.4ghz for non line of sight links at small beach communities where we need to send a signal through a tree maybe 100m to 300m from the transmitter. Also as the only broadband provider in these communities, we are mostly able to manage the wifi spectrum because we provide and program the in-home routers too.

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#1015124 29-Mar-2014 18:03

raytaylor:

Same technology as us, and a test i have just done is
10.2ms average to a subscriber at te paerahi / porangahau beach from Napier network core over 94 kms of radio links.
From their rooftop radio, trademe is about 32ms away.

Not sure about trevor, bur we only use 2.4ghz for non line of sight links at small beach communities where we need to send a signal through a tree maybe 100m to 300m from the transmitter. Also as the only broadband provider in these communities, we are mostly able to manage the wifi spectrum because we provide and program the in-home routers too.

10.2ms is pretty good for long range Wi-Fi. Is that latency including using a form of Ubiquiti ro Mikrotik TDMA or regular Wi-Fi?

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