Joseph Gibbs wrote:
Hi,
Looking at getting wireless internet and phone package from wired country, through ihug. Will probably get the 1 or 2mbit deal. Has anyone had any experiences with them? I checked the wlug pages, not much info about them though. I'm interested in the quality of service they provide, and any other experinces you could share for/against getting this service.
A friend of mine also swapped to this recently. He's just gotten a full refund, returned his router, and gone back to DSL. He was getting really bad packet loss for quite a while (100% loss @ 1400 byte packets, ~10% at 40 byte). Even when that was "fixed", he still found he had nearly no upload capacity - about 1k/sec or less. His connection would not have sustained a phone conversation in any situation. I'm in favour of the idea of wired country, and ihug's phone offering seems great, but I don't think it's quite there yet. Daniel