Hello All,
After reading the FUP of Airbox, i was pleasantly surprised. As a long-time
customer of Orange, i was expecting something like, "We will make your 10MB
connection 1M if you exceed 10GB quota". But this document talks about
stuff that any 'normal' internet user shouldn't be doing anyways.
The only thing that I am not aware of is the latency, especially to Valve
Singapore servers(which I personally care a lot about).
I think this is a great move from Emtel, and it gives a choice to people
like me, who otherwise would have to wait till 2017 to be eligible for la
fibre.
Thanks and Regards,
*RAMGOLAM Sandeep*
*Front-end Developer - Designer - Web Enthusiast - Gamer**Website :*
barfii.net <
http://www.barfii.net>
On 17 June 2015 at 10:00, Cédric Poottaren <cedric_at_jcplaboratory.org> wrote:
> Hello Nadim,
>
> I just called Emtel to enquire about relaying for the Airbox.
> The technician told me that the dish antenna relays signals to 5 stations
> across the island and no, the stations do not relay to any satellite.
>
> I have inquired about the latency too but she (yes she) was not able to
> answer me saying that I have to go one of their showrooms to try it.
>
> I believe the latency between the sender and Emtel shouldn't be bad but
> still it's wireless communication between the two ends.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> *Cédric Poottaren*
> Software Developer
> http://jcplaboratory.org
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 23:28:28 +0400
> Subject: Re: Emtel Airbox Packages
> From: nadim.attari_at_gmail.com
> To: cedric_at_jcplaboratory.org
> CC: mauritius-internet-users_at_lists.elandnews.com
>
>
> Hello Cédric,
>
>
>
> On 16 June 2015 at 23:01, Cédric Poottaren <cedric_at_jcplaboratory.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hello Nadim,
>
> I don't how far this applies to our ISPs (Emtel) but there's some theory
> on Wikipedia [1] about latency for internet satellite dish. I quote:
>
> " The absolute
> minimum total amount of delay
> is variable, due to the satellite
> staying in one place in the sky,
> while ground based users can be
> directly below with a roundtrip
> latency of 239.6 ms, or far to the
> side of the planet near the
> horizon with a roundtrip latency
> of 279.0 ms. [12]
> For an internet packet, that
> delay is doubled before a reply is
> received. That is the theoretical
>
>
>
> Emtel will not use geo-stationary satellites. They will use cell phone
> towers instead, if I'm not wrong.
>
> Regards,
> Nadim Attari
>
>
>
>
Received on Wed Jun 17 2015 - 09:30:04 PST