Speed, latency and the future?

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simon14

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#19407 15-Feb-2008 16:29

Hey guys,

I had Woosh back in the olden days when they frist came out - had it for 6 months but ditched it because although the speed was alright (256kbps comapred to adsl 128kbps), the latency was too high and made playing online games near on impossible.

Has the latency gotten faster? Could someone post up a ping test to woosh.co.nz? Surely the latency would have to be low now that they have a VoIP phone service running through the network?

What speeds do people get?

And are Woosh laucnhing WiMax anytime soon?

Cheers,

:)
EDIT: I don't need to know what customer service levels are like as i asked Woosh all these questions directly via their website contact form and had no reply after 3 days.

willnz

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#110838 15-Feb-2008 18:18

If you're even thinking Woosh, I wouldn't :p The latency may have improved a bit, but I was fixing a customer's connection a while back (who used Woosh) and the latency was still between 150-250 locally.

I believe they do some fancy-type prioritisation on their voice to make it semi bearable, but never used it myself so can't comment on that :)

atomik

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#112240 22-Feb-2008 09:10

locally you will get round 250-350ms. WoW servers normally give about 700-1200ms.

Woosh have secured a wi-max frequency and will be rolling it out sometime this year hopefully. Latency on Wi-max is meant to be as low as ADSL.

speeds you get with a good signal now range from about 700kbps up to about 1600 kbps. uploads 128-200 kbps. not to bad, and games like WoW are playable with that sort of ping, just not really in battlegrounds. don't count on using it for first person shooters though.

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#112241 22-Feb-2008 09:33

I am using Compass Wireless which is wireless and has great latency. It is great for VOIP and has been very stable for the last few months (have probably jinxed it now!) I run Compass Wireless with a VFX line.

Cheers, Matt.

Here are a couple of random pings:

Pinging compass.net.nz [203.152.100.40] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 203.152.100.40: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=61
Reply from 203.152.100.40: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=61
Reply from 203.152.100.40: bytes=32 time=21ms TTL=61
Reply from 203.152.100.40: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=61

Ping statistics for 203.152.100.40:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 20ms, Maximum = 35ms, Average = 24ms

Pinging woosh.co.nz [202.74.207.16] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 202.74.207.16: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=122
Reply from 202.74.207.16: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=122
Reply from 202.74.207.16: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=122
Reply from 202.74.207.16: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=122

Ping statistics for 202.74.207.16:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 22ms, Maximum = 23ms, Average = 22ms

Pinging stuff.co.nz [202.135.111.130] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 202.135.111.130: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=61
Reply from 202.135.111.130: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=61
Reply from 202.135.111.130: bytes=32 time=33ms TTL=61
Reply from 202.135.111.130: bytes=32 time=32ms TTL=61

Ping statistics for 202.135.111.130:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 32ms, Maximum = 33ms, Average = 32ms

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