Post by: JohnKentucky on August 03, 2003, 11:05:04 AM
Courier-Journal reported:
US Wireless Online will roll out its broadband network over the next four to five weeks, offering $30-a-month high-speed wireless Internet service for homes and small offices from downtown to Middletown and parts of Southern Indiana.
The Louisville company, which already offers line-of-sight wireless service for commercial customers, hopes to make a splash with a system that delivers Internet access indoors and out — anywhere within two miles of one of its transmitting cells.
Click the link above for more info. Reported 1MB/sec download with 512KB upload..not too bad. Right now I get 2.5 down...will have to check this out!
Post by: Bruce_F on August 03, 2003, 11:14:36 AM
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Right now I get 2.5 down...
What kind of service are you on? That sounds like the premium cable service I could have, if I wanted to spend twice what I pay now.
Post by: JohnKentucky on August 03, 2003, 11:17:41 AM
I'm going to sign up with this wireless one and see how the speed and service are. So far I'm pleased with Insightbb but if this wireless works out then I'll switch.
Post by: Bruce_F on August 03, 2003, 11:38:20 AM
Post by: JohnKentucky on August 03, 2003, 11:50:37 AM
Post by: Bill on August 03, 2003, 07:20:43 PM
Post by: Al on August 03, 2003, 08:33:58 PM
QUOTE(JohnKentucky @ Aug 3 2003, 6:50 AM)
Fastest I ever got was 3MB...but 2.5 is the average.
B) Best here was around 2.1Mb, average 1.8Mb, Time Warner (RR) cable. Beep Beep! 
Post by: krissel on August 03, 2003, 10:20:53 PM
Post by: bil207 on August 04, 2003, 08:09:16 AM
Post by: kelly on August 04, 2003, 09:04:42 AM
That's Megabits.
One Megabit = 125 Kilobytes. KBs.
Still plenty fast.
Post by: giantmike on August 04, 2003, 05:22:53 PM
With my home cable service (Road Runner), I get 1.5-2.3 Mb/s depending on when I do the test.
Up at school, I normally get 300-700 Kb/s. I wish I had a 200 mile long ethernet wire :-D
Post by: Raven on August 05, 2003, 04:06:52 PM
I'm still on 56k dialup service. (hate it!!) My ISP in our small town now offers broadband wireless service too. But being a PC guy he can't explain to me what I would need to hook up the service to my G4/400 Mac. OS9.1. (Soon to be OSX).
He claims he's much faster than the DSL competition.
(For business reasons, I will stay with this ISP)
He sells his PC customers an aerial installed on the house, hard wiring to the computer, and an Orinoco Card (?).
So, would that work for a Mac, or do I need some other type of card?
What kind of software would I need to make it work?
Are there any other considerations?
Hope you can clear this up for me? Thanks.(
Post by: giantmike on August 05, 2003, 05:27:08 PM
However, this is just speculation. Does he have a website with some details on his service?
Post by: Raven on August 05, 2003, 06:08:05 PM
The website for my ISP is
http://www.jan.norcom.mb.ca/MainFrame.htm
Could someone translate/explain to me what equipment my Mac would need based on the ISP's posted question:
"What equipment do I need at the end of my connection?"
Post by: kelly on August 05, 2003, 08:36:03 PM
Too big for my screen at 800x600.
Could you make it smaller or make it a link please.
Raven. Unless you're pretty close you'll need their antenna I think.
That and an Apple Airport Card would do it as far as I know.
Isn't there any other Broadband available?
Post by: Raven on August 06, 2003, 09:05:15 AM
Yes, there is DSL available from another source, but I have to stay with my ISP for now for business reasons.
So the Airport card takes the place of that Orinoco card that he sells to PC users?
Post by: kelly on August 06, 2003, 09:23:39 AM
I could not find an Orinoco Card for your machine.
They do sell Orinoco Cards for mac Laptops that many people use.
See what they have to say about it.