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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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