After staying 2 nights at SSR, we moved to BWV. Here is what I found on the performance of the High Speed Internet Access at both locations.
In both cases, there was some sort of interruption of use by Disney. If you left the screen in some web site, say CNN, and walked away for a while, then after some period -- seemed about 20 minutes -- Disney would interrupt and start up the Disney web site, which automatically started a video clip with sound that you would suddenly hear -- so you did not want to go to sleep and have that happen to wake you up shortly after.
This interruption of service also had bad consequences when uploading large (e.g. 4 to 6 MB) files. From SSR, I uploaded about 7 large photos (4MB or so each) to a web site, and about half of them had glitches in them when you then tried to view those photos on the web site. From BWV, I e-mailed a 6MB WMV audio file, and it could not be opened by the recipient.
SSR performed much better in the standard benchmark test that I run when on the road. I use http://performance.toast.net/ for this benchmark. SSR (not using a router) came out very good, very much in line with Comcast and Verizon and above average results. Unfortunately, I did not copy down the numbers. But I do have the numbers for BWV, and they are not good. My results (through a Linksys G router) came in at 512 KB, which was far below the average of 1342 KB, and even further below Verizon (1824 KB) and Comcast (2047 KB). So BWV is much slower than average and much slower than SSR. I suspect that this may be because SSR was built with HSIA included while it was a later add-on to BWV.
This is not to say that the performance at BWV is horrible. If all you are doing is checking the news on CNN or checking your e-mail, you probably will not notice much difference from Comcast service at home. But for uploads or for large downloads, you will see the difference.
In both cases, there was some sort of interruption of use by Disney. If you left the screen in some web site, say CNN, and walked away for a while, then after some period -- seemed about 20 minutes -- Disney would interrupt and start up the Disney web site, which automatically started a video clip with sound that you would suddenly hear -- so you did not want to go to sleep and have that happen to wake you up shortly after.
This interruption of service also had bad consequences when uploading large (e.g. 4 to 6 MB) files. From SSR, I uploaded about 7 large photos (4MB or so each) to a web site, and about half of them had glitches in them when you then tried to view those photos on the web site. From BWV, I e-mailed a 6MB WMV audio file, and it could not be opened by the recipient.
SSR performed much better in the standard benchmark test that I run when on the road. I use http://performance.toast.net/ for this benchmark. SSR (not using a router) came out very good, very much in line with Comcast and Verizon and above average results. Unfortunately, I did not copy down the numbers. But I do have the numbers for BWV, and they are not good. My results (through a Linksys G router) came in at 512 KB, which was far below the average of 1342 KB, and even further below Verizon (1824 KB) and Comcast (2047 KB). So BWV is much slower than average and much slower than SSR. I suspect that this may be because SSR was built with HSIA included while it was a later add-on to BWV.
This is not to say that the performance at BWV is horrible. If all you are doing is checking the news on CNN or checking your e-mail, you probably will not notice much difference from Comcast service at home. But for uploads or for large downloads, you will see the difference.
