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Volume 28 : Issue 332 : "text" Format
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Re: Verizon femtocell user report
Re: Verizon femtocell user report
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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:01:30 -0800
From: AES <siegman@stanford.edu>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Verizon femtocell user report
Message-ID: <siegman-E9F8A8.11010017122009@news.stanford.edu>
In article <76fea$4b29a7ae$adce214f$6820@PRIMUS.CA>,
"Geoffrey Welsh" <gwelsh@spamcop.net> wrote:
> AES wrote:
>> Two days ago we purchased a Verizon femtocell unit [...]
>
> How does the connection compare to the 'conventional' cellular network? I
> couldn't help but wonder whether the latency of the cable internet service -
> especially during congested periods - affected the audio quality.
>
> ***** Moderator's Note *****
>
> I'm very interested in this question as well, but I'd like additional
> information:
>
> 1. Does it only work on a Verizon DSL line?
> 2. Is there any special setup involved, i.e., does a technician visit the
> premise?
1) So far as I understand, it works on any Internet connection -- in
our case via Comcast cable Triple-Play. An Apple Extreme base
station/router is daisy-chained over a 1 m RJ-45 cable from our
Comcast modem to provide an Airport Ethernet LAN throughout our
house. This Airport base station has three Ethernet ports along
one edge; the femtocell is connected into one of those with an
RJ-45 cable.
I believe the instruction sheet (temporarily mislaid) says you can
take the unit with you anywhere away from home and connect to an
Ethernet connection anywhere you can find one.
Comcast gives us typically a 10 to 20 MB Internet connection. Users
guide for the femtocell claims it should work OK with a 300 to 400 KB
DSL connection.
2) No setup, no technician, just took it out of the box, connected
wall wart power adapter and RF-45 cable to the Airport router, and
it started working within a couple of minutes.
I can't comment on audio quality (other than that it certainly seems
quite OK); the signal level we get from the nearest real Verizon tower
is so weak that our cellphones are more or less unusable without the
femtocell.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:54:46 -0600
From: bonomi@host122.r-bonomi.com (Robert Bonomi)
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: Verizon femtocell user report
Message-ID: <H8Gdnc5IG41rc7fWnZ2dnUVZ_vNi4p2d@posted.nuvoxcommunications>
In article <76fea$4b29a7ae$adce214f$6820@PRIMUS.CA>,
Geoffrey Welsh <gwelsh@spamcop.net> wrote:
>AES wrote:
>> Two days ago we purchased a Verizon femtocell unit [...]
>
>How does the connection compare to the 'conventional' cellular network? I
>couldn't help but wonder whether the latency of the cable internet service -
>especially during congested periods - affected the audio quality.
>
>***** Moderator's Note *****
>
> I'm very interested in this question as well, but I'd like additional
> information:
>
> 1. Does it only work on a Verizon DSL line?
Any 'net connection with adequate bandwidth will work.
> 2. Is there any special setup involved, i.e., does a technician visit
> the premise?
No technician, but it does 'assume' some local services running,
notably 'DHCP' for the box to get it's local IP address assignment.
This assumption is a reasonably safe guess for virtually all
contemporary home service.
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