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AT&T Mi Fi

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ChiefEngineer

I visited a station this week as there was a problem with their Barix exstreamer for a program we provide from our station.

On the way listening to the station they would lose 3 seconds of audio from time to time. Found out they have all equipment run non wired through AT&T Mifi service. One small cell phone device feeds the station computers through Netgear usb to Ethernet adapters.

I never could get the Exstreamer to sync. They are using a Bric link so I am sure it can be done. While hooking things up i got the Exstreamer to sync twice but the audio was choppy and distorted. At the same time they lost a computer in sales.

Fortunately we had another option, a lower bitstream tunein feed or the wmp feed. There was not a way this would work consistently. The bric link was burping regularly based on usage.

Anyone have experience with Mifi?
 
I have a quick question for you. What version of firmware are you using in the extreamer? Are you using the streaming client or the standard firmware? I've had much better luck with the streaming client firmware and setting pulling a stream. The buffer gets around a lot of issues.
 
The big issue is how they are getting connectivity. While 3g and forthcoming 4g is pretty impressive at times, it is foolish to be running mission-critical connections over a consumer wireless data connection. The signal strength with 3g and 4g wireless bounces around way too much to provide any kind of reliable service.

If they have to go cheap, there has got to be an inexpensive DSL or cable provider in their area.
 
I was using reflector beta on the Exstreamer. We couldn't make reflector work in any mode reliably so set them up with the 32 k bit rate feed we use for smartphones. This is talk only. This isn't a reflector issue or Barix issue. Thi9er Bric link was dropping signal from time to time.

I was surprised to see what is essentially a cell phone with a hot spot app in this position. For wifi it should be great but I wouldn't do it. I wanted to see if this was some new thing that was evolving and if the service was better else where.

AT&T is offering Uverse internet for $19 a month now here in Indiana. I am 600 feet from a CO and have switched over to this. I still have a Comcast backup. Both are pretty reliable individually. I had many intermittent Comcast issues that are gone with Uverse. Still working on the router to switch back and forth and share the two.

Our town is all fiber, but the last 100 feet is copper. I understand bitrate on internet is stopped at some level but imagine what having fiber to every neighborhood might allow to happen?
 
Wow. 600 ft way from their CO probably will mean it'll work great for years without incident. A friend's station is about a block away from his CO. It's highly reliable. I think ATT's main issues is in their outter plant wiring. The stuff at the CO and close-in works great.
 
It really does depend on location. We're in the Central BD and across from the Time Warner Telco data/co, two blocks from the AT&T co, and right across the street from a building housing a utilities major data center. Needless to say, we've never a problem with our CLEC.
 
ChiefEngineer said:
Our town is all fiber, but the last 100 feet is copper. I understand bitrate on internet is stopped at some level but imagine what having fiber to every neighborhood might allow to happen?
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When the providers successfully have their bandwidth caps in place (U-Verse is already capped at 250GB) the faster service will only mean that you can get to your cap quicker. The 250GB cap will not affect most people, but over time, if history is a teacher, data transfers will continue to increase. The caps will probably remain where they are. It's part of the revenue model.
 
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