Is it safe to use woosh yet???

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s.joseph

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#19942 7-Mar-2008 11:44

Im looking at getting woosh on a 5gb plan but there have been a lot of complaints about it on the forums. What speed would i get when using bittorrent? It says im in coverage at school but i won't be able to use at home due to coverage which is alright becuase i board at school.

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atomik

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#115984 11-Mar-2008 17:59

max download speed i have seen using the wireless system was 40kb per sec. not really fast at all. don't expect torrenting to be quick on wireless, specially if there isn't many seeders.

psychnurse

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#116046 12-Mar-2008 06:16

I'm in a similar situation, I can get woosh at work but not at home. I have had the the wireless for over 2 years now and generally only use it for work to play World of Warcraft on nightshift. Plays quite well, can even raid and do B.G.'s.

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#121943 7-Apr-2008 22:56

I demanded a refund on my woosh after 2 routers in a row turned out to be faulty. Dont know what truck those netgear things fell off. The radio frequency and equipment are not designed for broadband anyway, its basically laggy mobile data over a nice looking router.

Time to find a new industry!

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#122225 8-Apr-2008 23:25

haha funnily enough
My first modem died, then after a second it was still 4x slower than dialup and when they got me the booster it went just over 300 kbps. They just pushed me around and said if i dont get some one to see it theyl charge me $200 to disconnect.

After talking to the christchurch office they disconnected me.

In my opinion woosh is absolute rubbish.

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#122337 9-Apr-2008 15:43

I have never got anything over 180kbs with woosh. And average about 40kbs, we have a full signal. We signed up to the 50GB plan as we are using it for downloading large files. Woosh are rubbish, but I can say, it's good enough for downloads or non-time senstive stuff if you don't expect them quickly. And the fact you can have multiple users connected at the same time with the same userid is a real plus, one at home, one at work, three pcmcia's for around wellington, someone in Akl when they travel just so long as you don't go over the cap you are fine (and trademe is great to pick up second hand equipment, as long as it hasn't been barred from the network).... Lot cheaper than Vodafone (and allow multiple users), just slow and laggy like any wireless internet solution.

I get this from the NetGear 814 UI with the rubber duckie aerial plugged in, the signal goes down if I plug in a Black or White booster.:

RSCP	-55.1 dBm
ISCP	-61.1 dBm
Signal Delta	6.0 dBm

And a -62 RSCP and -70 ISCP with a delta of 9 on my laptop with a PCMCIA and Rubber Duckie as well.

So there is no problem with signal strength or quality, and I don't ever get disconnections or failed downloads.... Just lack of backhaul from woosh makes things slow.

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#122339 9-Apr-2008 15:50

I found unless you are within line sight of the repeater, you won't get good connection.

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#122368 9-Apr-2008 18:02

psychnurse: I'm in a similar situation, I can get woosh at work but not at home. I have had the the wireless for over 2 years now and generally only use it for work to play World of Warcraft on nightshift. Plays quite well, can even raid and do B.G.'s.

How bad is the ping?

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psychnurse

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#122735 11-Apr-2008 06:43

550-750. It's nights shift, im too worries about ping. Mainly just fly round outlands and mine, do the odd BG

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#124993 19-Apr-2008 21:10

woosh sucks

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#124998 19-Apr-2008 21:25

It will never be safe..

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#125002 19-Apr-2008 21:37

Woosh is poor, but for those unable to get wiring into where ever they live there is no other cost effective (Voda/TNZ) option to get wireless internet.

They suck, but the upsides are you "used" to be able to get 2nd hand gear off trademe (seems like someone these days is the woosh trademe police as per auctions like these) and have as many connections at the same time as long as you didn't go over your cap..

gomez

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#126018 24-Apr-2008 06:51

Be very wary of buying Woosh equipment from Trademe, the equipment is not owned by the customer and still remains the property of Woosh Wireless Ltd (it's on the sticker on the back). Be wary about taking over accounts, some may be heavily in debit and you could end up wearing the bill.

If the device was purchased prior to September 2005, then it is customer owned.

If you do happen to see the old Phase 1C version (P1C) with the oval front and RSSI LEDs, then these are still handy for doing signal checks and do still work. However, the aerial clips into the flip up aerial with a special 'V' shaped clip which is about as hard to find as rocking horse droppings and very prone to breaking.

brucie44

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#129231 7-May-2008 20:21

Buddy left Woosh in December 2007.
May 7th 2008 got a letter demanding $210.
Fortunately had demanded an e-mail stating he had paid in full and closed his account. Back in December.

Form your own conclusions !

regards, Bruce.

gomez

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#129277 8-May-2008 06:43

Oh yes, that sounds all too familiar. Their accounts department used to infuriate many customers and obviously still does. Sounds like he was charged an early pull-out fee and a month's usage on top of that.