USI speed
Monday, April 28th, 2008download: 273 kb/s
upload: 906 kb/s
download: 333 kb/s
upload: 878 kb/s
tested tonight at 8:15pm
Archive for April 28th, 2008
Minneapolis wireless
Monday, April 28th, 2008It’s awesome. I am going to be canceling my Comcast service first thing this morning.
I have had the Minneapolis wireless service from USI for a month or so and I have been struggling to make it work. I am able to connect via the wireless antenna in the street via my laptop by the signal is not too good and the speed has not been particularly high.
I went ahead and ordered the home adapter and set it up upon arrival. No luck. I was not able to get my laptop to discover the wireless signal from the home adapter no matter how much tweaking I did on the settings. I reset the adapter, rebooted my computer etc. etc. and it still was kaput. So what good is this whole thing if I can only connect to the antenna in the street and suffer these slow speeds?
It’s been a few weeks now of messing around with it and I was ready to chuck the whole thing into the garbage while resigning myself to the fact that I was going to have to live with crappy Comcast forever.
Over the weekend I attempted to disconnect the wireless home adapter when I noticed an Ethernet port in the back of the adapter. After experiencing a EUREKA moment immediately followed by I AM A DUMB ASS moment I realized that the wireless home adapter is only wireless in from the street and not wireless out to the house. So I plugged my Netgear wireless router from my Comcast set up into the USI adapter and bingo! I am not enjoying all those fast speeds that I have been hearing all about lately.
So see ya later Comcast. Your days of relying on my stupidity are way over. I gots me the smarts now and I am USI Wireless!
Anyone else using this service?
