On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Tom Worthington <[email protected] > wrote:
> On 02/11/16 13:36, David Boxall wrote: > >> ...consequences, however, are a bit unusual. >> <https://www.facebook.com/groups/BIRRR/permalink/579061192302572/> >> >> ... I use the internet to run pumps and an automated watering system to >>> provide water to livestock. ... >>> >> > Iridium, ORBCOMM, Globalstar, Thuraya and Inmarsat offer low speed > satellite data services for such applications. > > Assuming the pump sent a short status message once a day and had to be > manually overridden only occasionally, a satellite service would cost about > a dollar a day. But the cost of that could be despicable, once you take contract and start up costs into account, and I bet you it's more than a small status message, when all the original poster wants is a reliable installation time when they said they'd do it. Dreadful. Hopefully by now they've rectified this. It shouldn't need to be taken to social media! -- Narelle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
