Well to be honest how good the Ripwave gets is dependant on the area it's in... if alot of people are connecting to the BTS at one time the BTS has to send alot of information to alot of Ripwaves and gets bogged down...
In theory your Ripwave should only ever connect at a minimum of 2.5kbps at maximum traffic period.
1 024 / 40 = 25.6kbps (not K/Bsec... that's a different form of measurment) which unfortunately yes is slightly slower than dial up...
It's not like that in every area either. Back before I worked for the company I had a ripwave myself and used it fine for a year used to get about 40K/Bsec or more out of it alot of the time, when I moved to another area that was in coverage is was crap at about 5 or 6kbps... which to be fair for me was still bareable at the time because it's a basic enough connection.
Also I'd advise against going with Eircom for DSL as although they're slightly cheaper there are alot of restrictions on the connections, a monthly cap for one of which IBB doesn't have any (and yes we do DSL also...).
To be honest the company is getting a bad rep at the minute due to the Ripwave as alot of people simply think it's called the Irish Broadband. It's a basic Internet service which a contention ratio of 40:1. People are made well aware of this when they sign up but don't research what they're buying beforehand.
If you want a basic service that'll give you decent enough speeds for general web browsing email and the likes fair enough but due to the large contention ratio you're not always guaranteed those kind of speeds under heavy network loads... that's just the way it is.
If you're a more demanding sort of net user like myself get a DSL connection (although there is the downside of having to pay line rental) or Breeze which is fixed wireless, slightly more expensive than most but it's symetric... same speed up and down and has a much lower contention ratio.
Last edited by JimmyJoeJohnson : 8th January 2008 at 01:22 AM.
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