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Gold Hills Posse 4×4 Club · Folsom, CA

WISP?

  1. Guest former user
    #111 May 2010, 8:01 AM

    Yep, it's another Keane lives in the sticks and wants better internet thread. 😀 Anybody familiar with fixed broadband? Turns out since they installed a new tower we may now have line of sight. It looks like a significant upgrade. We're looking at Smarter Broadband (http://www.smarterbroadband.com/FAQ.htm). Anybody use it or a similar service? We're using satellite now and I'm about done with it. Latency is terrible, speed is slow, the reliability is low, and it's really expensive. Are you familiar with their Accelerated Browsing (Bursting) technology? Makes sense, does it work? Any thoughts?

  2. Fred Subscriber
    #211 May 2010, 9:07 AM

    I'm not familiar with that particular service, but my uncle in Arizona used something similar and he said it worked well.

  3. RobD Subscriber
    #311 May 2010, 11:23 AM

    I have been using NorCal Broadband for about 8 years and it sounds exactly like the service they are offering you. I have been very happy with it.

    __________________ 'If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under."- Ronald Reagan
  4. Guest former user
    #429 Jul 2010, 5:52 PM

    We got the WISP installed yesterday. The speed is about thousand times faster than the satellite but I'm pretty disappointed with their install work. They had to put it in a tree, made a mess with the branches and just left them laying there, simply threw the wire down instead of making any effort to hide it, anchored it above the sliding glass door so I have to look at it ever time I walk out, and cut the connections off of the wire I was using for the old connection. They're coming out tomorrow so we can "discuss" it. They said this was their first complaint every and called Kelly a liar. We told them we were going to dispute the charge on the credit card and they suddenly got more friendly...or at least more quiet. We'll see how it goes.

  5. Guest former user
    #530 Jul 2010, 8:25 PM

    They came out and took care of the problem. Very solid company. Speeds are great. I got 4.69 megs down and 1.07 up a few minutes ago. That's before I ran out of the "burst" but it's great!!! After the "burst" I got 690k down and 940k up. The "burst" lasts for about 2-3 minutes of video. The old satellite would run less than 100k all the time and one time I tested it and it was below 50k.

  6. JohnDF Subscriber
    #630 Jul 2010, 9:10 PM

    Has anybody heard from Keane lately...I wish he'd start posting again.

    I used to wheel a lot. . .
  7. Guest former user
    #731 Jul 2010, 7:28 AM
    "JohnDF" wrote: Has anybody heard from Keane lately...I wish he'd start posting again.



    Wait, I'm here. I can hear you. Guys. Hello. I can hear you can you hear me? Test. Hello?! Can you hear me? Is this thing on? 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

  8. JohnDF Subscriber
    #831 Jul 2010, 8:12 AM

    It's not official until Peggy chimes in 😂

    I used to wheel a lot. . .

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