Wireless BroadBand Option

[TriniXaeno]

Fear not SPK

The dead zones are being worked on, so coverage will be available there in a few months.

Trini, the setup involves a dish, like direct tv, so it won't be flexible/portable enough to allow moving from location to location with your laptop.

unless you're pretty good at rigging up dishes. lol

Thanks for the beta sign ups. The selected individuals will be contacted for verification of address, etc....

Good luck testing.

Here is a MiniFAQ to help answer the questions posed thus far.
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Is it portable? No, it requires the installation of a small dish on your roof

What is the installation charge? All necessary equipment will be installed for free (before end of february) after that, installation will cost $500.00

Do I buy the dish/router for that $500? No, the equipment shall remain the property of Green Dot (the wireless company)

What if I don't get a good signal in my area? For areas with bad reception, a reflection dish can be used to enhance the signal. This will help strengthen signals in hard to reach areas.

Is the service unlimited? Yes

Will South be covered? Yes. Within the next 3 months most of the island will be covered.

When will the service be officially launched? Target date is the end of February.                    

[SPK]

*still wonders how long dey gonna take to reach Grande...*

Once dey set up here, Wireless IMMC...and I makin sure the net cafe i does go to in Grande hear about it as well to jump on board....CS Source IWMC!!!                    

[Bsensei]

Baego check your mail please......

My question is if you are dis-satisfied with the service if you will be able to cut it or the contract = 1yr or something?                    

[StarCon]

just one question, if I already had a 2.4 GHz 24dBi directional antenna and a wireless router .. could I use that stuff instead of the equipment provided by green dot - thus reducing monthly costs even further ?                      

[unforgiven]

hmmm@not portable .....currently i share am unlimited dialup tstt account with my bro (we share the cost of it)....when i want to go on i use it here and when he wants to go on he either uses my pc or he calls and he connects at his house...if there was someway to link both of our houses but its approx 350feet (approx) and ther eare lots of trees and houses in the way                    

[Curly]

I want to sign up.....  wtmc whamm to gasparillo people?                    

[trinigamer]

BTW thats $375.00 plus VAT.
Still I will probably take it.                    

[Rampage]

whey look how new dsl does bring men on de forum. man who never make a single post now posting. we need to get more net companies in trinidad, they go post again!

anyway for those of you who would like to play games online on foreign servers, example: battlenet, etc. then this is not for you. because it uses satelite = serious lag once you cross the network. if however you will be playing games on local servers, then this is for you. if you not a gamer and doh care about latency when it come to gaming on foreign servers then this is for you. only downfall i see in this is the lag when you cross the network. nobody mentioned anything about this in the thread, so i thought i should let you'll know.

if you're going to be using wireless, you had better have some serious ultra-kickarse security. wireless is easy to hack, easy for someone to park up infront your house and be dling and using up your bandwidth, many hacks are out there so i hope you good in security if you going wireless.

you will get 64KB/S from someone who is on the same wireless package, in other words, someone on the same internet network as you. outside of the network (out of trinidad, wireless company) you will get 32KB/S (same as tstt).

now if you're a gamer, and i'm sure most of you in here are (if you're not, then wtmc you doing here?), then you would probably be playing games on foreign servers or would like to play games with your friends from a different isp locally (tstt, cariblink, etc). once you playing game with someone from a different isp even if is same country, you crossing their network which means lag iymc. and i'm sure most of you will want to play games on a foreign server or with your friends from a different isp in trinidad.

another thing is p2p apps. p2p and satelite does never go down good. if you a music downloader (kazaa, ares, etc) or a bit torrent user then this won't cut it for you.

anyway this is the pros and cons, reason i doing this is because i don't want any of you to get this thing then be dissatisifed.

PROS:
wireless, can be used anywhere in the house
same download speed as tstt
twice the download speed of tstt when its on the same network (i.e you and the host on the same company)
sweat with gls

CONS:
sucks for p2p
sucks for foreign gaming or gaming outside of the company network even if is in the same country
same speed as tstt for downloads outside of the company
not portable, unless you walking around with a dish on your truck
installation cost 500 bucks
bad weather can interfere with satelite signal (if you have satelite tv or something you'll know about this for sure)

Would you pay $400 a month for a 512k intranet and 256k wireless internet link with acces to blisteringly fast game servers?

if you're on tstt network and the host is on tstt network you will have 30ping an thing, so it's the same. the blisteringly fast game servers is only blisteringly fast because it's on the same network. same can be said for someone on tstt connecting to another server under tstt network, so i guess that slashes that out as a pro.



i hope that clears up some of the stuff for you'll. don't be disappointed when you get the wireless package, now that you know what to expect                    

[trinigamer]

One more "Pro"

Its not TSTT.                    

[Rampage]

One more "Pro"

Its not TSTT.

one more con, weather conditions will affect satelite signal. raining too much? weak signal iymc. thunderstorm ? weak signal iymc. if any of you have satelite tv you would know exactly what i mean.                    

[StarCon]

not that latency to us servers was any good with tstt dsl to begin with. now I mightn't get the best speeds anyhow, since the infrastructure in princes town is outdated and faulty (just spent a month w/o phone & inet), but 90ms was the best ping I got so far.
While that might be good for most rts games, it's totally inadequate for fps gaming.

I reckon we could set up a similar gaming community network if everybody would get a 50us antenna and wifi equipment.

@rampage
thanks for the info , though I'm a bit disappointed now.
especially that p2p part is hard to swallow :S

btw. if latency is so high, it will most likely suck for voip as well
                     

[Rampage]

not that latency to us servers was any good with tstt dsl to begin with. now I mightn't get the best speeds anyhow, since the infrastructure in princes town is outdated and faulty (just spent a month w/o phone & inet), but 90ms was the best ping I got so far.
While that might be good for most rts games, it's totally inadequate for fps gaming.

I reckon we could set up a similar gaming community network if everybody would get a 50us antenna and wifi equipment.

@rampage
thanks for the info , though I'm a bit disappointed now.
especially that p2p part is hard to swallow :S

btw. if latency is so high, it will most likely suck for voip as well

anything under 150ping is good enough for fps gaming man. with satelite you go be hitting 300+                    

[StarCon]

anything under 150ping is good enough for fps gaming man. with satelite you go be hitting 300+

you can't be serious - anything over 100ms is a gamble.
70-100ms is acceptable when u play with rl and flak,
but proper sniping and instagibbing is only fun at pings around 30ms.                    

[Prowl]

Bageo gimme 512k all around and I'm game! but somehow I don't think they'll want a guy like me with a windows front end to wipe.exe and an itchy finger around.                    

[TrinireturnofGamez]

anything under 150ping is good enough for fps gaming man. with satelite you go be hitting 300+

you can't be serious - anything over 100ms is a gamble.
70-100ms is acceptable when u play with rl and flak,
but proper sniping and instagibbing is only fun at pings around 30ms.

 i'v been owning you all @ 300-400 ping on halo servers ..... it depends on the game , battlefield  NEEDS -200 ping to snipe....                      

[StarCon]

i'v been owning you all @ 300-400 ping on halo servers ..... it depends on the game , battlefield NEEDS -200 ping to snipe....

while I agree that some games are better for highpingers than others, 300ms will let u suck big time - no matter if u're 1337 or not - the only positive thing is that you warp all over the place - making it a bit harder for lpb's to frag you.
imho u could only own ppl with a ping equal to yours while any n00b with a 30ms ping would eat u alive.                      

[Computerman]

Can we share one connection at one location?  I have a few PC's home and I'd like to connect all to the Net.  What about firewall and router/switch?  Do I need to have my own?  We are in Freeport, if that is far enough for Beta testing give me a call.                    

[Rampage]

i'v been owning you all @ 300-400 ping on halo servers ..... it depends on the game , battlefield NEEDS -200 ping to snipe....

while I agree that some games are better for highpingers than others, 300ms will let u suck big time - no matter if u're 1337 or not - the only positive thing is that you warp all over the place - making it a bit harder for lpb's to frag you.
imho u could only own ppl with a ping equal to yours while any n00b with a 30ms ping would eat u alive.

yeap you're very right. at 300 ping there is a lot of warping and its basically impossible to snipe. you go either have to use a splash/wide range weapon like flamethrower, rocketlauncher, fuelrod gun etc. playing at 300-400 ping is a huge disadvantage as well. and you said you been owning us on the halo server? i never see you on de server nah, when last you went?

and yeah its true that ping affects the games differently, most games will move extremely crappy under 300ping, eg: q3. you launch a rocket and count about 3 secs before you even see it come out, lol.                      

[Greendot]

Hi, I am representing Green Dot Limited and am willing to answer any questions that any of you may have. Please do not hesitate to post questions on the forum or email me at telu@tstt.net.tt

The website is being developed and will inform you once its properly up.

We can also be contacted on 622 5700.

Green Dot Limited                      

[TriniXaeno]

Good to see you on the forum greendot! (Has anyone seen a TSTT rep ever officially on this forum??)

lol @ another pro: "this is not TSTT"
 
trini, yuh damn right. wtstthb
 
I suffered through too many nightmares with their service desk, if they ever answer the phone at all.
 
Not to mention the stop and go internet action. One minute websites working, next few minutes they not. Wash rinse repeat.
 
Also my MSN always disconnecting on it's own. Pressura.
 
The other bachanal with tstt, is that it is tied into your phone line.
 
That means if your mother/sister/aunt run up a bill and you get disconnected, down goes your internet as well. Leaving you with a $2000 phone bill to pay just to get back up your internet access.
 
VOIP works perfectly fine over satellite.
 
I used satellite internet to run a VOIP phone service and customers loved it.
 
As for cloud cover affecting the link, they will have three satellite links over different parts of the island. Redundant.
 
That way if one is blocked, net traffic will flow through the others.
 
Long term plan (if enough customers are signed on) is to acquire fibre for internet through TSTT. This will give ultra fast pings externally as well as internally.
 
I am not too concerned about that though since the local servers will provide plenty of gaming as is.
 
Imagine, all the local servers hosted on the wireless network. All the various GLs sweating off the same servers against other members all over the island at ultra low ping. Clan vs Clan, Gl vs Gl.
 
Madness!
 
It will be insane!!
 
Not to mention, you could be downloadin and playing at the same time. Sine you got 512k for the gaming wan and 256k for the internet wan.
 
Try doing that with your dsl and a brother outside downloading hardcore. sweat buss.
 
Computer man / Curly. You guys should be within the range. I will talk to green dot and find out. Seems they are willing to extend the beta test to a few more people. Should I count you all in?
 
To answer your question on sharing, the equipment gives you a normal ethernet port at the PC end.
 
You can share that on your home lan just as you would any other internet connection using ICS, freesco or some other routing software/solution.