Expert: Cezar L. Palconet - 9/7/2010

Question
i live in the middle of no where and the only broadband internet service was just hooked up recently, my service is through a high powered radio frequency,  i have a huge antanae hooked up on the back of my place picking up the signal kinda like 3g sprint ( a little bit like it i guess),  they hooked it up and i received a netgear wireless g router with it, and was over charged by the way, but anyway, the plan i am on states i only get 1024 kbps bandwidth, but for some reason i get about a third of that, i think it is the router but i dont know what to get, will a wireless n network device work or maybe a super g network router, i really dont know, i am using a new compaq  laptop that has wireless b,g,n capabilities, i just didnt know if n works with radio frequency broadband or not or if i would be better off getting super g router, help me i am so confused!

Answer
Hi, Scott

Your problem is very common to a great deal of subscribers,
You forget to mention the type of technology that is used to deliver your wireless Internet service to your home, and I am talking about the one with the big antenna, is it WiMax, MMDS, or STM E1?


but here is the bottom line, on most technology, except the STM E1, when the quality of signal deteriorates due to terrain and atmospheric conditions, the number of bits are reduced to make room for redundant bits in order for the system to recover lost bits and frames due to the bad propagation conditions, secondly from the source, the service provider has a finite capacity to which he distributes to the subscribers, it is like retail, the more he can stuff subscribers into a finite resource, the more profit he makes.
this is like a shared resource among subscribers, and most of the time this is the reason why you get a lot less, currently there are no ruling or legislation that governs this issue in detail.

if you subscribe to an STM E1 carrier capacity, then your problem is more or less the later, ask your service provider for a much higher capacity, and explain to them the issue, but you might wind up paying a lot more, now if the need for the connectivity cost justifies the extra amount of money, then by all means it is the better option.

good luck.

regards.