Service Provider Mobility: CPE testing still

underway at Ball State University

Posted by Kevin Wilson Apr 26, 2010

Hello all! As you may or may not know, Ball State University is currently testing and
reviewing CPE products on our WiMAX network. The latest product we have tested is the
Tecom WM 5033-2G5 router. Our results are as follows.

Tech Specs

Brand: Tecom

Item: WiMAX indoor CPE (Customer Premise Equipment)

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Model: WM 5033-2G5

FCC ID: 2009/07/31

Input: 12V

Made in: Taiwan

Product Features

• Intelligent-WiMAX CPE designed for residential and small to medium sized businesses
• Compliant- IEEE 802.16e and Wave cor2/D3, Wave2
• Provides-Up to 30 Mbps downlink and 6Mbps uplink

Test Configuration

The tests for this particular CPE were conducted on the Ball State WiMAX network
comprised of 3 Cisco BWX 8305 (5 MHz) WiMAX base stations and 2 Cisco BWX 8415
(10 MHz) WiMAX base stations. The signal strength observed during the test was between
-70dB and -68dB. The Carrier to noise ratio (CNR) was around 22dB.

All speed observations were made with Netpersec

Test Results

A speed test has been conducted with the Ball State University "My Speed Test" tool that is
available at www.bsu.edu/noc.

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A download speed of 3.63 Mbps and an upload speed of 3.46 Mbps were observed during
the test.

FTP download and upload test

Download

A 130MB file has been used in the ftp download test. An average of 5.2 Mbps was observed
during the test and it took 3 minutes and 39 seconds to download the entire file.

Upload

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A 130MB file was used to conduct the ftp upload test. It took almost double the time
(compared to the download test) at 6 minutes and 15 seconds. The average speed observed
during the test was 3.9 Mbps.

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Web Downloading

To test the download speed on the internet, we have downloaded a file from Ubuntu.com.
The size of this was file was 80 Mb. The download time was 7 minutes and 29 seconds with
an average speed of 2.7 Mbps.

Again, we hope you have found this product review very useful! And as always, if you have
questions or comments, please add them below!

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