Apologies - I didn't mean to be unclear in my post, or to speak untruths about radio.  I thought the query was regarding connectivity to a home.

I have worked with radio links a number of time in commercial settings and it's always been fabulous - both fast and very reliable, and it's great to see a number of purveyors of high class services getting established in this field.

Every time I've tried to get radio going to a residential address (ie, in a suburb or regional centre) it's only been possible using products that sadly don't fall under the 'fast and reliable' umbrella.

If you are lucky enough to be able to subscribe to a decent provider then be thankful and take the opportunity - I know I would if I could.

Cheers,

Gerard

On 7/11/2006 10:29 p.m., Jonathan Brewer wrote:

Hi Folks,

Since this is a technical list, I thought I'd contribute some data to answer
Gerard's comment: 

"Wireless has too high a latency"

I left a ping running for the last hour across our gigabit wireless link
between Sky Tower and ANZ Centre in Auckland. Here are the results:

	3904 packets transmitted, 3904 packets received, 0% packet loss
	round-trip min/avg/max = 1/1.0/5 ms

A couple points:

	1. It's raining in Auckland. The unloaded link without the rain is
down around .5ms
	2. Under load in the rain it looks more like 1/3/8 ms.
	3. Yes, it really is wireless, not laser. Tx low 58.1 GHz, Tx high
62.9 GHz.

Cheers,

Jon

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