IBB Fixed wireless

Feidhlim

Howdy folks,

Anybody know if IBB will be upgrading their fixed wireless soon?

I think they upgraded it from 3mb to 4mb last Christmas but in light of Digi offering 8mb - does anyone know if/when they will upgrade?


Is it the same technology as Digi?

Does anyone know the max speed possible with this technology?
Does anyone know the max speed which can be received with the antenna they provide?

Love,
Feidhlim

gingerGiant

IBB will not be upgrading their speeds anytime soon as they are rumoured to be planning a wimax rollout in the next few months.


The 5.4 and 5.8 antenna they use is capable of at least 15 MB down and up but obviously to provide this to all customers would require a massive increase in backhaul to each highsite or a reduction in the number of subscribers they allow per sector, neither of these are likely to happen.

watty

Wimax more likely to replace Ripwave than Breeze.

The speeds offered on Imagine/IBB fixed network likely already close to or past the contention limits. More speed is only possible with less customers.

A Wimax replacement of Breeze would be horribly expensive (physical install of new radios) and change each sector in one go! Small change in performance.

All the newer ripwave can switch to Wimax (s-CDMA to OFDM) by software update. Unloaded it will not make much difference and due to the frequency not improve coverage much. It will almost double heavy load capacity (slowest speed then 120kbps instead of 60kbps) and reduce latency a lot.

Feidhlim

Interesting stuff

Thanks guys, much appreciated