FWA - Why no other packages

zt-OctaviaN

Just wondering why FWA providers dont offer more than (1Mb in general) company Im with offers 2Mb but it scales back after 20seconds to 1Meg.

These units are capable of 100mbps on the WAN but actual internet Bandwidth they provide is only 1Mb anyone know why this is the case?

For example a FWA subscription will cost the average home user 30 - 35 euro approx however and eircom line and BB will cost about 40 with this youll get generally 2meg and if within range get 3meg on the forthcoming upgrades. Doesnt it stand to reason anyone not within range of an enabled exchange whom has a Line for Phone calls may not stretch another 35 euro for BB and probably want to keep their line?

Regards
Nick

Peanut

zt-OctaviaN wrote: »

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These units are capable of 100mbps on the WAN but actual internet Bandwidth they provide is only 1Mb anyone know why this is the case?
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Cost and conserving available radio spectrum, they might be able to do 100mbps (still unlikely) but then no-one else would be able to connect.

There is a huge disparity between wired and wireless in terms of amount of shared bandwidth available from each local access point. With wireless you get the benefits of flexible location, the downside is that you have to share the same airwaves with a lot of other customers.

The wired analogy would be like having 1 phone line for 10 DSL customers (if you could do it).

watty

Don't confuse system capacity (usually MUCH less than 100Mbps. The 100Mbps is likely just your interface speed) and per user speed. Some FWA systems have a total capacity shared among everyone of less than 15Mbps.

With 20 users you would get less than 1Mbps