IBB Ripwave - my experience - negative

MAJJ

Hey, I've sat idle and read the many helpful posts here. Can't say I wasn't warned but I went ahead and ordered ripwave. That was 3 days ago and I have already cancelled. In my innocence I thought that it could never be as bad as people say. I thought I would outline my experience for others.

No connection, hopping connection or when connected much much slower and far worse that than dial up. In essence totally unusable. Unless you want a niceley marketed/packaged box that does nothing then stay away.

On the plus side all 7 of my phone calls were answered in approx 2 minutes and they did try to help but couldn't and as much as admitted the coverage was crap in my area.

If your considering this product i would only do so if you know for a fact through direct experience that it is available to you. Like your neighbour or someonelse living in the same house/room

Anyway - I will pause before going ahead. At the time I was desperate for a connection, didn't want a contract and thought that it would at least be quicker than dial up.

Cheers and consider yourself warned.
MAJJ

matt-dublin

Ripwave isn't the greatest, and you also need to be careful where you located it in the house..

For example one of my mates had it behing a led window shield, no signal,
removed the window shield full signal...

The ripwave network isn't great but from what i hear they're doing major upgrades on it as we speak?

spooky donkey

I had a load of a clear wire box for a while in D15 it worked ok got decent speeds but pings were not great but it was fine for browsing. In general I do not think the BB in a box is a good concept.