Wireless Coverage in Auckland

[Steve Davis]

I am looking for reasonably low cost wireless Internet connection
options for the Mt Eden area in Auckland.

I am trying to confirm if Woosh coverage is available, does anyone
know if there are any other wireless ISPs that cover that area.

Thanks
Steve

[Dan Clark]

contact Andrew Hooper at Borg, I'll cc this...
He supplys wireless gear and runs his own network/ISP around Bucklands
Beack area and others.

www.borg.co.nz

Regards
Dan Clark
Technical Director
Synaptic Ltd

Post by Steve Davis
I am looking for reasonably low cost wireless Internet connection
options for the Mt Eden area in Auckland.
I am trying to confirm if Woosh coverage is available, does anyone
know if there are any other wireless ISPs that cover that area.
Thanks
Steve

[Simon Garner]

Post by Steve Davis
I am looking for reasonably low cost wireless Internet connection
options for the Mt Eden area in Auckland.
I am trying to confirm if Woosh coverage is available, does anyone
know if there are any other wireless ISPs that cover that area.
Thanks
Steve

If you can't see the Sky Tower (unlikely in Mt Eden) you probably don't
have many choices unfortunately. Woosh may be available though
personally I wouldn't recommend it - performance is dismal in my
experience (though if you do go that route, I have a couple of their
modems for sale...).

In a similar vein, does anybody know what options might be available in
the Albany (Nth Shore) area?

-Simon

[Tom Parker]

Post by Simon Garner
If you can't see the Sky Tower (unlikely in Mt Eden) you probably don't
have many choices unfortunately. Woosh may be available though
personally I wouldn't recommend it - performance is dismal in my
experience (though if you do go that route, I have a couple of their
modems for sale...).

I have also in the past said on this list that Woosh is not that great. I've
now significantly improved my service after speaking with someone with a clue
on their helpdesk. It turns out that the two numbers that the windows software
give you are the signal strength and the interference strength, the number you
are interested in is the difference, which woosh call the delta. They say the
want you to have a delta of 5dB or more.

The funny part is the lights on the modem. They appear to be calibrated for
about -4 to 0dB delta. So if you have 4 lights, you have 0dB, and their
target is 9 lights. Except there are only 4.

With this new information I was able to make a milo tin antenna that I put
most of the modem inside. This improves my signal strength and makes the woosh
service run like it did when I first got it (where it worked well with the
built in antenna).

One day I will reverse engineer the woosh ethernet protocol so I can have my
linux box speak to me while I'm aiming the antenna. Having to mouse over and
then off and then back on an icon in a windows software is tedious.

--
Tom Parker - ***@carrott.org
- http://www.carrott.org

[Ian Batterbee]

Date: 1 Feb 2005 0:30:2 +1300
Subject: Re: Wireless Coverage in Auckland
One day I will reverse engineer the woosh ethernet protocol so I can

have my

linux box speak to me while I'm aiming the antenna. Having to mouse

over and

then off and then back on an icon in a windows software is tedious.

It's just PPPOE... I've had a cisco 2651 connected straight into a whoosh modem and it worked fine.. (other than the weak signal we had at that location), so it should be fairly straight forward getting it to work off a linux box.

That was using the ethernet cable of course.. not the USB cable.

[t***@carrott.org]

Post by Ian Batterbee

Post by Tom Parker
One day I will reverse engineer the woosh ethernet protocol so I can
have my
linux box speak to me while I'm aiming the antenna. Having to mouse
over and
then off and then back on an icon in a windows software is tedious.

It's just PPPOE...

Sorry, I should have been clearer. The network comes up just fine using
pppoe and linux, but I want to be able to see the signal strength
information. This way the linux box and speak the signal
strength as I move the antenna.

Post by Ian Batterbee
That was using the ethernet cable of course.. not the USB cable.

There is a driver for the USB cable with the signal strength information
accessable in the latest 2.6 kernel. A south african using mywiresliess
wrote it.