100% wireless ISP?

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I was wondering if there are any ISPs that offer a wireless service to your house/car etc? It would be like rather like accessing a wi-fi hotspot, except that you would be a long term account-holder with perhaps regional/nationwide access. The provider would give you a unique access key for £24.99/month at 1 or 2 Mbps.

If there is such thing, what would the latency be like?

Thanks.
 
There is, but its very limited. Goto Samknows.com and see if its availible in your area. I doubt it is though as it probably is only availible to people in central london.
 
I used to use one where I used to live - however they eventually went backrupt.

Basically the company had a 4MB leased line and a "Supernode".
There were numerous smaller nodes in various locations in our village and two other villages.
The villages were linked via wireless too.
Those people living quite near to a node simply used wireless-Ethernet adaptors.
Those living further away from the node (I was around 700m - 800m away) would have patch antenna on the roof or chimney stack.

I had a 6ft pole attached to our chimney (I was at the very furthest point of one of the villages that were linked).
That talked to one of the village nodes etc.
Performance was more or less as good as wired ADSL - no major increase in ping times or anything, latemcy was also no worse.
I could see connection speeds of 3MB plus and because of the leased line backhaul and relative small numbers of users we got good uploads too.
From around 10:00pm I'd say around 3MB/3MB which was excellent for around £25 per month.
However the company over-stretched themselves, took on another more profitable area, neglected what was already in place and eventually the whole thing fell apart.
I've still got my patch antenna and node equipment though.

Sorry I've gone off-topic a little bit - suffice to say they do exist and they offer a connection every bit as good as wired ADSL so long as they have a wireed backhaul - some use satellite feeds and these of course are not so good.
 
cities like leeds, birmingham, london etc are currently been fitted with this by 'The Cloud'
they are installed into street lamps. there pricing is £4.50 per hour, £10 a day, or £30 a month. this allows you access to any cloud network wifi area, which includes any pub wit ha 'who wants to be a millionaire' machine, various campsites, marinas and hotel (which our company has fitted)
 
the 1 hour rate is aimed at buiseness users going into the city for a meeting, or on dinner break and they would charge it on expensis. £10 a day is also expensive IMO.
 
MikeOCUK, it's really intersting that you have mentioned marinas because I have once thought about living on a narrow boat (better known as a house boat). It would just mean taking a wireless-ready computer onboard and then logging on. The hourly rate is indeed harse, but £30/month is just normal. I would go for that.
 
If you want truely totally wireless internet currently only way is with the Vodafone Mobile Connect card, you get a mobile phone tarrif for your laptop, which is based on amount downloaded rather than on time online. Contracts vary in price depending on inclusive mbs. It's via 3G so its like "broadband" not as fast mind. But still faster than 56k. You can connect anywhere there is a vodafone signal...so about 99.9% of the country.

Check them out.
 
Monserrat said:
MikeOCUK, it's really intersting that you have mentioned marinas because I have once thought about living on a narrow boat (better known as a house boat). It would just mean taking a wireless-ready computer onboard and then logging on. The hourly rate is indeed harse, but £30/month is just normal. I would go for that.
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yes we noticed a place in the market and were pushing it hard at the moment. we are also targetting a similar idea to marinas (obviously dont want to publish our buiseness plan on here).

there is a site we've done recently in the midlands where 40-100 people live there even through the winter and love the idea. Its only a 3mb connection between them, but it does the job :)
 
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