Hi Andrew,
I emailed the company in question regards the wireless product, see below.
I must say the £150 install cost's are sure cheaper than Satellite installation prices, also monthly cost are the same as BT's ADSL Broadband <a href="http://www.iap.uk.net/bb.html" target="_blank">Web link</a> look under Tariff
Anyway the following corrospondance may answer some of your concerns.
Hi there,
I hope you can answer a couple of questions for me directly, or by way of your FAQ page. Satellite providers advise that their setup is not recommended for realtime gaming against another person over the web, also I believe realtime share trading over the net would also suffer from data 'lag'
So my question is, does wireless Broadband suffer the same drawback as satellite in that respect, or is it comparable with adsl delivered broadband..
Thanks,
Reply
Hi,
We have a satellite connection here so i can tell you exactly what it is
like. Satellite has a delay whilst the signal is sent into orbit then back
down to earth this is normally around 700ms in practice this can be as long
as 1 second making online "shoot em up" gaming almost impossible.
The delay is really only noticeable with games or voice over IP as most
other applications are not that time sensetive. I would expect online share
dealing to be fully functional over that type of system.
Now with that out of the way, our service is a terrestrial digital wireless
service which is connected into the internet via a dedicated internet
backbone so the service is directly comparable with ADSL under normal
working conditions the latency of the wireless is below 10ms (the same as a
wired network) this can however degrade as the network gets busy (just like
ADSL).
So in short you would have no problems with share dealing in real time,
gaming or even voice over IP using our system.
I hope that when we go live you will find our system to be a distinct
improvement over ADSL.
Roger Whitfield
Internet Access Point Ltd
PS. I know a guy who posts on these forums, who is taking this service at the end of August, so I'll ask him to keep us updated. I'm not prepared to give out his name, because that would not be right without his permission. As he may get pestered needlessly prior to him actually having used it.
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