Imagine launch Midband Ripwave Replacement - WiMAX

bimlico

I have had Wimax for the last 10 months and they are without doubt the worst service providers for broadband I have ever come across.
Steer well clear and don't touch them with a barge pole.

They tried to charge me an early cancellation fee too until I pointed out to them that their service was not fit for purpose and if they wanted to go into a court of law I would have no problem proving that.

They backed down and released me from the contract.

THE WORST

smelly sock

Still amazes me how people sign up for this junk. I had it 3 years ago and it was the worst experience of my life. I have been with eircom, vodafone and now have UPC. what imagine provide is a poor 3g service and mount an antenna to do so. A 3g dongle would be better.

MrVestek

I'd say that Imagine WiMAX has ended up with the same fate as their Ripwave service.

The Ripwave technology and the WiMAX technology aren't actually bad technologies at their core, if implemented correctly they can work quite well and at good speeds.

What IBB / Imagine have done though is oversubscribe the masts without deploying new sectors to cover new users to maximise profits.

When Ripwave (and subsequently WiMAX) was in the early stages with few subscribers it actually seemed to work quite well.

Same story every time. Instead of implementing true point to point WiMAX they instead went for a mobile implementation with improvements such as mounting an external antenna to make it seems point to point like but infact it is not.

Before anybody lambasts me for stating as such I used to work for the company. I was subsequently unceremoniously let go for criticising such practises. Hoe hum!

(*waves hello to all of the current and ex employees that he knows stalk this thread from time to time*)

wildlifeboy

I had it for years and never had a problem besides sllllooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwww connection. upc now thank god.

smelly sock

MrVestek wrote: »

I'd say that Imagine WiMAX has ended up with the same fate as their Ripwave service.

The Ripwave technology and the WiMAX technology aren't actually bad technologies at their core, if implemented correctly they can work quite well and at good speeds.

What IBB / Imagine have done though is oversubscribe the masts without deploying new sectors to cover new users to maximise profits.

When Ripwave (and subsequently WiMAX) was in the early stages with few subscribers it actually seemed to work quite well.

Same story every time. Instead of implementing true point to point WiMAX they instead went for a mobile implementation with improvements such as mounting an external antenna to make it seems point to point like but infact it is not.

Before anybody lambasts me for stating as such I used to work for the company. I was subsequently unceremoniously let go for criticising such practises. Hoe hum!

(*waves hello to all of the current and ex employees that he knows stalk this thread from time to time*)

I had it in the early days. They'd throttle torrent downloads. I could use it for browsing but nothing else.

MrVestek

smelly sock wrote: »

I had it in the early days. They'd throttle torrent downloads. I could use it for browsing but nothing else.

Ripwave or WiMAX?

I know that back in the IBB days they used Ellacoya Traffic Management systems for Ripwave and Breeze network traffic shaping back in the day.

Not sure if they would have employed the same system with WiMAX but one would assume so as the infrastructure was already there for it.

EdmondShiels3

Thinking of getting Wimax, have very little options. Only other option is mobile broadband. Is it worth a try? What is downloading torrents like? Do they block them?

Obecny

EdmondShiels3 wrote: »

Thinking of getting Wimax, have very little options. Only other option is mobile broadband. Is it worth a try? What is downloading torrents like? Do they block them?

It shouldn't be your option at all, totally rubbish, forget about torrents without vps
Forget about sending an email with few photos it is almost impossible.

warlikedave

EdmondShiels3 wrote: »

Thinking of getting Wimax, have very little options. Only other option is mobile broadband. Is it worth a try? What is downloading torrents like? Do they block them?

Three don't throttle torrents (tried and tested that myself) but like all 3g/4g networks - there is no minimum quality to the connection itself could be terrible either way

EdmondShiels3

warlikedave wrote: »

Three don't throttle torrents (tried and tested that myself) but like all 3g/4g networks - there is no minimum quality to the connection itself could be terrible either way

What was you connection like? I know it can be better in some areas but overall what was your speed like and were torrents a good speed. I don't download a lot but would like to be able to do some.

warlikedave

EdmondShiels3 wrote: »

What was you connection like? I know it can be better in some areas but overall what was your speed like and were torrents a good speed. I don't download a lot but would like to be able to do some.

I am in a low contention area so its ok - it can vary from 1.5 mb to 9mb (real download speed at 9 mb bandwidth is 800kb per second plus) - this 9 mb is rare and three have very little 4g coverage at the moment so its just 3g here.

As for using a torrent client - ive had bit torrent report throughput of 1.2 mb per second download speed which is when my connection bandwidth is at 9 mb.

So at max capacity I can download a 700 mb file in 10 minutes but as I said 3g speeds are very unpredictable at times

EdmondShiels3

Is imagine wimax as bad a three broadband.Is it worth getting?

MrVestek

EdmondShiels3 wrote: »

Is imagine wimax as bad a three broadband.Is it worth getting?

That all depends on where you're located.

EdmondShiels3

MrVestek wrote: »

That all depends on where you're located.

Do you know if Carlow is a good area?

EdmondShiels3

Is there anyway to find out where wimax transmitters are?

EdmondShiels3

I am going to order Wimax tomorrow. Is this a good Idea?