I have high-speed!
Today (October 22, 2005), Arryba Communications installed their fixed wireless high-speed Internet service at my home. A crew of three showed up, quickly determined that they could get a single from the tower at First Line & Century Roads, installed the tripod, mast, and antenna, ran cable from the antenna to my office, and configued and tested my PC. The whole process took less than 2 hours.
I've done some quick tests. I've sent emails, connected to my work (Nortel) via VPN, surfed the web, banked online, updated some anti-spyware apps, and ran a couple of download speed tests. All in all, I would have to say that I'm quite happy with the service and the speed. (Aside: average results from my three test at http://www.testmy.net was 763 Kbps, which is a little slower than expected. It is still much faster than dial-up -- 23x faster than the 32 Kbps that I normally get with dial-up -- and Arryba did warn me of some latency, which they are working to reduce. When I had DSL in Kanata, I often wasn't seeing speeds over 700 Kbps. )
I am not yet setup with my Arryba email addresses or webspace, but I expect that will happen sometime next week. (Let's face it, they installed on a Saturday and finished up about 5pm.)
Arryba also informed me that they had just installed service at other homes further south on First Line. If you have recently gotten high-speed service (and haven't already told me so), please let me know. Despite my having high-speed, I'm planning on maintaining my high-speed neighbourhood watch until high-speed Internet service is available throughout the area.
If you signed-up with Arryba but do not yet have service, then you will probably have it shortly. Steve Shauland, CTO of Arryba, informed me that they've been working 7 days a week to meet the demands for their service throughout Ottawa south. I think the fact that they installed a couple of homes on First Line on a Saturday is testment to that.
October 24, 2005:
I've optimized my PC for 'cable modem' using SpeedGuide.net's free TCPOptimizer (I selected the default Cable modem options -- which adjusted my WinXP registry settings as per SpeedGuide's Windows 2000/XP Registry Tweaks), and repeated by download tests using http://www.testmy.net's SmartTest. I'm now seeing average download rates of 1.8+ Mbps. Previously, my PC had been optimized for dial-up. Caveat: I'm not sure if Arryba has done anything at their end; I plan to do some more testing in the next few days and weeks.
I've done some quick tests. I've sent emails, connected to my work (Nortel) via VPN, surfed the web, banked online, updated some anti-spyware apps, and ran a couple of download speed tests. All in all, I would have to say that I'm quite happy with the service and the speed. (Aside: average results from my three test at http://www.testmy.net was 763 Kbps, which is a little slower than expected. It is still much faster than dial-up -- 23x faster than the 32 Kbps that I normally get with dial-up -- and Arryba did warn me of some latency, which they are working to reduce. When I had DSL in Kanata, I often wasn't seeing speeds over 700 Kbps. )
I am not yet setup with my Arryba email addresses or webspace, but I expect that will happen sometime next week. (Let's face it, they installed on a Saturday and finished up about 5pm.)
Arryba also informed me that they had just installed service at other homes further south on First Line. If you have recently gotten high-speed service (and haven't already told me so), please let me know. Despite my having high-speed, I'm planning on maintaining my high-speed neighbourhood watch until high-speed Internet service is available throughout the area.
If you signed-up with Arryba but do not yet have service, then you will probably have it shortly. Steve Shauland, CTO of Arryba, informed me that they've been working 7 days a week to meet the demands for their service throughout Ottawa south. I think the fact that they installed a couple of homes on First Line on a Saturday is testment to that.
October 24, 2005:
I've optimized my PC for 'cable modem' using SpeedGuide.net's free TCPOptimizer (I selected the default Cable modem options -- which adjusted my WinXP registry settings as per SpeedGuide's Windows 2000/XP Registry Tweaks), and repeated by download tests using http://www.testmy.net's SmartTest. I'm now seeing average download rates of 1.8+ Mbps. Previously, my PC had been optimized for dial-up. Caveat: I'm not sure if Arryba has done anything at their end; I plan to do some more testing in the next few days and weeks.
posted by Chris Spencer at 3:22 pm
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