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Each Section below highlights important networking properties. Each section will explain the category and describe how our service compares to different internet connectivity solutions.
Many components are important in talking about what you expectations you may have when deciding on which rural broadband solution to choose. These performance factors are important to your internet experience! They will also determine how you can use your internet connection.
Network tools like ping tests and traceroute can help you to measure network latency. A Ping test determines the time it takes a given network packet to travel from your computer to a predetermined destination and back, the so-called round-trip time. Round-trip time is not the only way to specify latency, but it is the most common. This Round Trip time is important for the experience that you should expect on the internet. Long ping times will make your internet experience choppy, and video will start and stop during playback.
To test your current network latency we recommend use a tool like www.speedtest.net or www.dslreports.com These sites will give you both accurate ping times to the internet and download and upload speeds.
Satellite services illustrate the difference between latency and bandwidth on computer networks. Satellite Internet services have both high bandwidth and high latency or ping times. Requesting a web page from a browser, for example, most satellite users can observe a noticeable lag from the time they request a web address to the time the page begins to load. This high latency is due primarily to propagation delay as the request message travels at the speed of light to the distant satellite station and back to the home network. Once the message arrives on Earth, however, the page loads quickly like on other high-bandwidth Internet connections (DSL or cable or WIConnect Wireless). This round trip latency is something that makes our service outperform the competition. We have experienced latency to the internet at 5 to 45 milliseconds on average.
On DSL or cable Internet connections, latencies of less than 100 milliseconds (ms) are typical and less than 25 ms desired. Satellite Internet connections, on the other hand, average 500 ms or higher latency.
QOS (Quality of Service) refers to a broad collection of networking technologies and techniques. The goal of QoS is to provide guarantees on the ability of a network to deliver predictable results. Elements of network performance within the scope of QoS often include availability (uptime), bandwidth (throughput), latency (delay), and error rate.
QoS involves prioritization of network traffic. QoS can be targeted at a network interface, toward a given server or router's performance, or in terms of specific applications. A network monitoring system must typically be deployed as part of QoS, to insure that networks are performing at the desired level.
WiConnect wireless does have some QOS policies. They are designed to allow us to provide services to all customers on our network. They are enforced if abuses are found or virus or Trojan activity is found to be causing issues on our network. We do not punish or limit the total amount of network traffice you can use over time.
Uptime is the amount of time the network is available. Normal network availabity gaurantees are in the 99% range. Because of maintenance and other management activities the network uptime gaurantee at WIConnect Wireless is 99.5 %. This network uptime is determine by our network monitoring solution which tracks network avaialbity of each device on our network and logs the several different aspects of those units.
Throughput is the measure of the efficiency of a network expressed as the data transfer rate of useful and non-redundant information. It depends on factors such as bandwidth, line congestion, error correction, etc.
WIConnect Wireless Service Rates are determined by the service package you choose. Our basic package is bandwidth rates are up to 768Kbps.
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