Tikona, in Bangalore started 4G OFDM based broadband. This solved getting a broadband to remote places of Bangalore where there is no good wired Broadband service providers.
For this to work, the building where they will put the overhead Box type antenna ( 50gm 4 “RJ45” port device ) needs to be at Line Of Sight from a nearby relay point. The device gets powered over ethernet, so in your home, you will have a small AC adapter hooked to a 2 port RJ45 port adapter, one end will connect to Antenna & the other will connect to you PC/Wi-Fi router.
I have tested online applications like BitSpirit/Steam/Origin/UPlay/BattleNet/Roku all of which connected seamlessly through my Cisco E4200 ( configured as "Automatic DHCP" ). I had my E4200 configured beforehand for both 2.4Ghz & 5Ghz bands....and all my devices were MAC filtered through it for a local network. All I was missing was a WAN uplink.
Tikona gave me that link & when I asked the Engg who visited my house to install it, he said he will not help me doing the router config. So, when he went to roof top to permanently fix the antenna ( after receiving the installation payment & confirmation from me that I'm OK with their offer ), all I did is plug the Tikona LAN cable to my E4200 to the internet port as seen below:
And VOILLA, my PC picked up the internet access through my previously defined Wi-Fi setup, all my Android phones picked it OK too, including iPad & Roku.
I read in this forum, that Tikona uses MAC scanning & their site also say max 8 devices can be connected, however, E4200 gives a good router feature called "MAC Cloning" >> Article
Using MAC cloning on the router, one can connect max number of devices that the router supports.
Why would I want to "clone" a MAC?
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Some particularly evil ISPs do not want you to have a home network and have a modem that allows only 1 MAC to talk on the internet. If you change network cards, you have to call them up to change the MAC. The Linksys can clone the computer MAC that was originally set up for such an ISP.
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Paying VEMO/Youtube in my Roku through 4MBps Tikona is smooth, no lag.
1:20 contention ratio ( ratio of the potential maximum demand to the actual bandwidth).
The higher the contention ratio, the greater the number of users that may be trying to use the actual bandwidth at any one time and, therefore, the lower the effective bandwidth offered, especially at peak times.
Avg. Torrent download speed 250kb / Steam game download peak 500kb....let's see how the connection holds-up...while new users gets added to the antenna.
Some Tikona URLS:
Plan Change: https://apps.tikona.in/RPM/RatePlanDetailsAction.do
MAC Clearing: http://myaccount.tikona.in/userportal/login.do?requesturi=&act=mymacs ( ensure Router MAC only )
Engg Login: WelCome Page
( Each Installation is tracked against a transaction ID )
Note: Tikona Engg clearly told me, if there is line of sight obstruction, signal will be poor. So, there should not be tall buildings in between / even tall trees. That is why when they visit customer site, they are doing a feasibility check. I had to get the antenna hooked to overhead tank's ( 4th floor roof ) overflow pipe to get a clear line of sight from the nearest relay point. Per customer, Tikona allocates 34m ( CAT5 ) cable only, so if you stay at lower levels of a high rise apartment, you may not get good singal as for more than 35m+ cable length, singal suffers from attenuation issues, as the signal's length of travel increases, quality suffers due to less power available to the cable caused by longer distance. Additionally, you can not put the Wi-Fi antenna out of line of sight too aat a lower level to address the cable length issue, that’s the gotcha!!
For this to work, the building where they will put the overhead Box type antenna ( 50gm 4 “RJ45” port device ) needs to be at Line Of Sight from a nearby relay point. The device gets powered over ethernet, so in your home, you will have a small AC adapter hooked to a 2 port RJ45 port adapter, one end will connect to Antenna & the other will connect to you PC/Wi-Fi router.
I have tested online applications like BitSpirit/Steam/Origin/UPlay/BattleNet/Roku all of which connected seamlessly through my Cisco E4200 ( configured as "Automatic DHCP" ). I had my E4200 configured beforehand for both 2.4Ghz & 5Ghz bands....and all my devices were MAC filtered through it for a local network. All I was missing was a WAN uplink.
Tikona gave me that link & when I asked the Engg who visited my house to install it, he said he will not help me doing the router config. So, when he went to roof top to permanently fix the antenna ( after receiving the installation payment & confirmation from me that I'm OK with their offer ), all I did is plug the Tikona LAN cable to my E4200 to the internet port as seen below:
And VOILLA, my PC picked up the internet access through my previously defined Wi-Fi setup, all my Android phones picked it OK too, including iPad & Roku.
I read in this forum, that Tikona uses MAC scanning & their site also say max 8 devices can be connected, however, E4200 gives a good router feature called "MAC Cloning" >> Article
Using MAC cloning on the router, one can connect max number of devices that the router supports.
Why would I want to "clone" a MAC?
===================================================================================
Some particularly evil ISPs do not want you to have a home network and have a modem that allows only 1 MAC to talk on the internet. If you change network cards, you have to call them up to change the MAC. The Linksys can clone the computer MAC that was originally set up for such an ISP.
===================================================================================
Paying VEMO/Youtube in my Roku through 4MBps Tikona is smooth, no lag.
1:20 contention ratio ( ratio of the potential maximum demand to the actual bandwidth).
The higher the contention ratio, the greater the number of users that may be trying to use the actual bandwidth at any one time and, therefore, the lower the effective bandwidth offered, especially at peak times.
Avg. Torrent download speed 250kb / Steam game download peak 500kb....let's see how the connection holds-up...while new users gets added to the antenna.
Some Tikona URLS:
Plan Change: https://apps.tikona.in/RPM/RatePlanDetailsAction.do
MAC Clearing: http://myaccount.tikona.in/userportal/login.do?requesturi=&act=mymacs ( ensure Router MAC only )
Engg Login: WelCome Page
( Each Installation is tracked against a transaction ID )
Note: Tikona Engg clearly told me, if there is line of sight obstruction, signal will be poor. So, there should not be tall buildings in between / even tall trees. That is why when they visit customer site, they are doing a feasibility check. I had to get the antenna hooked to overhead tank's ( 4th floor roof ) overflow pipe to get a clear line of sight from the nearest relay point. Per customer, Tikona allocates 34m ( CAT5 ) cable only, so if you stay at lower levels of a high rise apartment, you may not get good singal as for more than 35m+ cable length, singal suffers from attenuation issues, as the signal's length of travel increases, quality suffers due to less power available to the cable caused by longer distance. Additionally, you can not put the Wi-Fi antenna out of line of sight too aat a lower level to address the cable length issue, that’s the gotcha!!
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