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Imagine wimax query

  • 11-03-2010 10:15PM
    #1
    Kashkai
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,399 ✭✭✭


    I know there's acsuperthread on this but after ten pages, I gave up looking for my answer. Anyways a guy called this evening to my house to get me to sign up to this new service. My current broadband provider are perlico who are crap at customer service and the 3MB broadband is 34kps in reality when it works. So I was interested in the wimax IF it works.

    What are the drawbacks? It's 15 euro cheaper a month and I'd have wifi throughout the house. Sounds too good to be true but I'm a cynic by nature. One other question. How would this work with Sky boxes that have to be connected to a phoneline when there's no phoneline with wimax.


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  • #2
    cgarvey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,890 ✭✭✭cgarvey


    I'm not going to be your lazy web, so you can read that super thread for plenty of feedback about speeds and pings, etc.

    On the Sky Box issue, it won't work. Simple as. Sky boxes use analogue modems to phone home. There is a means of providing support over VoIP lines, but it requires it to be setup at both ends, and requires a good stable BB connection. WiMAX from Imagine won't do either (to the best of my knowledge).

    (this is assuming you have Multiroom? If not, you might not need the phone line).


  • #3
    smelly sock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,820 ✭✭✭smelly sock


    Prosperous Dave wrote: »
    I know there's acsuperthread on this but after ten pages, I gave up looking for my answer. Anyways a guy called this evening to my house to get me to sign up to this new service. My current broadband provider are perlico who are crap at customer service and the 3MB broadband is 34kps in reality when it works. So I was interested in the wimax IF it works.

    What are the drawbacks? It's 15 euro cheaper a month and I'd have wifi throughout the house. Sounds too good to be true but I'm a cynic by nature. One other question. How would this work with Sky boxes that have to be connected to a phoneline when there's no phoneline with wimax.

    Imagine Communications does not support P2P or filesharing due to the nature of what it may be used for. While we accept a percentage of people may indeed use it for legitimate reasons we cannot support the use of the software in question that is used for these purposes.

    That's a mail I got off them. Don't touch them with a barge pole. This rules out torrent downloads etc for Open Source software. IMO they are censoring the internet.


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