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How many Woosh users are in Chch? I will be moving there in a couple
of weeks, for most of the year. For various reasons (liek the phone
isn't in my name and is shared with others) ADSL is not an option, so
a standalone wireless thingie like Woosh appeals, even tho it costs
more. Anyone using it near the University? According to their website,
they don't actually cover anywhere - whatever address I put in for
Auckland or Christchurch came back "no service"
Geoff

In <> geoffm wrote:

> How many Woosh users are in Chch? I will be moving there in a couple
> of weeks, for most of the year. For various reasons (liek the phone
> isn't in my name and is shared with others) ADSL is not an option, so
> a standalone wireless thingie like Woosh appeals, even tho it costs
> more. Anyone using it near the University? According to their website,
> they don't actually cover anywhere - whatever address I put in for
> Auckland or Christchurch came back "no service"

It's a pain how there's no coverage map on Woosh's site, but I seem to
recall that only the central business district is covered in
Christchurch. As an experiment, I typed in '1 Riccarton Road' and it
told me that service is available but, when I tried '10 Riccarton Road',
it said that service was not available. This suggests that the cuttoff
point is somewhere around the Riccarton Road/Deans Ave roundabout (
Nancy's Corner), which means that you won't be able to use the service
anywhere near the university until they expand the network.

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In article <20050203203657073+>,
Alastair McAllister <> wrote:

> ore. Anyone using it near the University? According to their website,
> > they don't actually cover anywhere - whatever address I put in for
> > Auckland or Christchurch came back "no service"
>
> It's a pain how there's no coverage map on Woosh's site, but I seem to
> recall that only the central business district is covered in
> Christchurch. As an experiment, I typed in '1 Riccarton Road' and it
> told me that service is available but, when I tried '10 Riccarton Road',
> it said that service was not available. This suggests that the cuttoff
> point is somewhere around the Riccarton Road/Deans Ave roundabout (
> Nancy's Corner), which means that you won't be able to use the service
> anywhere near the university until they expand the network.

Their site is a bit ga-ga. 5 Riccarton Rd, OK with booster, 10; no, 6;
yes, 8 returned 8 Papanui Rd.....????

I'd say assume it's within the 4 Aves, a little beyond with the booster
and quite a lot beyond if you want to experiment with exotic antennae.
Like I've heard of Apple airports being used at a mile beyond their
normal 50 yard radius with the right extras, so anything is possible.

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On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 00:28:03 -0600, geoffm wrote:

> How many Woosh users are in Chch? I will be moving there in a couple
> of weeks, for most of the year. For various reasons (liek the phone
> isn't in my name and is shared with others) ADSL is not an option, so
> a standalone wireless thingie like Woosh appeals, even tho it costs
> more. Anyone using it near the University? According to their website,
> they don't actually cover anywhere - whatever address I put in for
> Auckland or Christchurch came back "no service"

http://www.wiggly.net.nz/woosh/Woosh01.jpg
http://www.wiggly.net.nz/woosh/Woosh02.jpg

Gives the approx area of occupation as at 5 August 2004. The day Woosh
blew into Christchurch.

I do agree that a rough map would be good, then you could feed in your
address for conformation, as another poster had said.

On 3 Feb 2005 20:36:23 +1300, Alastair McAllister <>
wrote:

>In <> geoffm wrote:
>
>> How many Woosh users are in Chch? I will be moving there in a couple
>> of weeks, for most of the year. For various reasons (liek the phone
>> isn't in my name and is shared with others) ADSL is not an option, so
>> a standalone wireless thingie like Woosh appeals, even tho it costs
>> more. Anyone using it near the University? According to their website,
>> they don't actually cover anywhere - whatever address I put in for
>> Auckland or Christchurch came back "no service"
>
>It's a pain how there's no coverage map on Woosh's site, but I seem to
>recall that only the central business district is covered in
>Christchurch. As an experiment, I typed in '1 Riccarton Road' and it
>told me that service is available but, when I tried '10 Riccarton Road',
>it said that service was not available. This suggests that the cuttoff
>point is somewhere around the Riccarton Road/Deans Ave roundabout (
>Nancy's Corner), which means that you won't be able to use the service
>anywhere near the university until they expand the network.

Hmm, what I thought - I will be in the 300-400 Riccarton Road range,
so probably no good. Would have thought they would have aggressively
extended the range, esp given the number of students (NZ and overseas)
around - many of whom are in the same situation as me.
Geoff