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Wi-Power

Wi-Power Review



Overall 4.00 of 5 (by 1 user)



Invisible most of the time, which is the way it should be
4 star rating

somewhat tech savvy, computer literate

APR
17
2008

Because it's a wireless system, it isn't susceptible to the kinds of failure related to pole lines and backhoes digging up cables, and this translates to high reliablity. 

However, there have been occasional times where the service has dropped to pitifully slow levels.  To the credit of their customer service/tech support system, they've always worked diligently to solve it whenever I've reported one of those episodes.

I once had DSL and dropped it when I discovered that they wouldn't allow me to smtp-relay my email through my web server.  That's not an issue for Wi-power, which is another reason I'm with them.

I don't do any P2P or VOIP, but I've been told Wi-power also doesn't do any of the throttling or "load balancing" now often associated with those uses -- which is nice to know in case I should ever want to use them for that.

I_thumb_up Wi-Power is recommended by doggod


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svBackstreets wrote on Jun 25, 2008 at 4:11PM


I've had W-Power in northwest Tucson for about a month. I am generally happy with one big problem. I was using the Watch Instantly movies with Sprint Broadband. works poorly wit Wi-Power. Speeds usually slow to about 300kb I'm paying for 1MB down. W-Power blames the leasor of the lines, Qwest. Seems like Wi-Power doesn't throttle me down but Qwest does. Same result for me. I'm not getting the bandwidth I am paying for.