[lug] Wireless ISP - Sprint Broadband

Sat May 5 09:36:00 MDT 2001

I have had the same problem. Are you seeing high packet loss? When my ssh
sessions aren't bearable any more that seems to be the problem. If you
call tech support they will have you power off the modem and antenea for
15 seconds or so and reconnect. That always seems to make my connection
happy, something about the antenea reconnecting ... they never give me a
good answer.

The other problem they have (I have a friend with good connections over
there) is they have been oversubscribed. Apparently they have 99 channels,
each 10M wide. They were only using 1 of those channels so as they have
added more folks to the service there has not been enough bandwidth. They
were suppposed to have some new gear in a week or so ago, but I don't know
if they have activated it yet or not. Things should be getting better (my
service has been pretty good for the last few weeks).

They have had a few outages as well, my favorite being when they somehow
denied all http traffic. Somebody got a little carried away trying to do
some qos over there no doubt.

Hope that helps.

On Sat, 5 May 2001, Jeffery Collins wrote:

> I've had SprintBBD since January or so.  The latency in the service is
> quite high.  They state that their service isn't intended for highly
> interactive applications, such as on-line gaming.  I suppose this
> applies to telnet sessions as well - I find remote telnet sessions
> almost unbearable.  In fact, I was considering hooking up the modem to
> my backup ISP just for this purpose - smooth but not fast interactive
> sessions.
> 
> Here is an example of a ping to boulder.net:
> 
> localhost.localdomain:/jcollins% ping boulder.net
> Warning: no SO_TIMESTAMP support, falling back to SIOCGSTAMP
> PING boulder.net (204.181.152.2) from 24.221.216.88 : 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=210.399 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=64.146 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=162.973 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=61.529 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=162.642 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=5 ttl=56 time=285.722 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=6 ttl=56 time=305.895 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=7 ttl=56 time=323.752 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=8 ttl=56 time=405.983 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=519.654 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=10 ttl=56 time=540.233 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=11 ttl=56 time=483.833 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=12 ttl=56 time=101.629 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=13 ttl=56 time=69.098 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=14 ttl=56 time=340.931 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=15 ttl=56 time=53.723 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=16 ttl=56 time=65.983 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=17 ttl=56 time=384.392 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=18 ttl=56 time=296.840 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=19 ttl=56 time=417.960 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=20 ttl=56 time=423.828 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=21 ttl=56 time=148.680 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=22 ttl=56 time=95.982 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=23 ttl=56 time=136.134 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=24 ttl=56 time=383.879 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=25 ttl=56 time=103.846 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=26 ttl=56 time=98.824 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=27 ttl=56 time=188.533 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=28 ttl=56 time=217.748 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=29 ttl=56 time=116.238 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=30 ttl=56 time=218.103 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=31 ttl=56 time=263.082 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=32 ttl=56 time=106.993 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=33 ttl=56 time=153.825 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=34 ttl=56 time=181.169 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=35 ttl=56 time=232.328 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=36 ttl=56 time=598.589 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=37 ttl=56 time=490.198 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=38 ttl=56 time=38.640 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=39 ttl=56 time=99.020 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=40 ttl=56 time=403.480 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=41 ttl=56 time=240.865 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=42 ttl=56 time=97.233 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=43 ttl=56 time=54.234 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=44 ttl=56 time=825.006 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=45 ttl=56 time=98.363 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=46 ttl=56 time=402.577 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=47 ttl=56 time=359.114 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=48 ttl=56 time=49.951 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=49 ttl=56 time=97.611 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=50 ttl=56 time=528.081 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=51 ttl=56 time=224.415 msec
> 64 bytes from ares.csd.net (204.181.152.2): icmp_seq=52 ttl=56 time=80.337 msec
> 
> 
> These widely distributed numbers are representative of a good
> connection day.  Occasionally during the day, the latency will be on
> the order of minutes.  And several times a day while browsing, I'll
> get a "host not found" error from the browser (on www.google.com, for
> example).  Reloading the page usually fixes the problem.
> 
> I was on travel during the last few days (or my response would have
> been more prompt).  While on site, I had a 384kbps DSL connection.
> Admittedly, it wasn't as burstily fast as SBBD, but it was much
> smoother and remote telnet sessions were indistinguishable from local
> ones.  I much prefer that situation.  Hopefully, some of the Denver
> wireless companies will percolate to the area and provide a reasonable
> alternative.
> 
> 
> --
> Jeff
> 
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