you do have the ihug satellite option, although as we know it requires a modem return path, so your pots line is still necessary.
and in response Chris's comments on the concept of data over POTS, adsl does a reasonable (although not perfect) job of just that. POTS may have been designed for voices, but it still carries a lot more spectrum if pushed. I was downloading at about 6 Mb/s from a NZ server on saturday (server was ftp.jetstreamgames.co.nz so I wasn't paying any extra for it). On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:26:48 +1200 Yuri de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 16:07, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > Let's not forget that the dear old POTS was designed to carry voices and > > the whole business of data on POTS using modems is one huge cludge, > > Winmodems on POTS is even worse. It's a miracle it ever works at all. > > Let's not forget that for some of us, POTS is _all_we_have_!! > I've spoken to Telecom and I can't get adsl. Exchange doesn't handle it or I'm > too far away. > TelstraClear will not lay saturn cables out of town. Woosh won't reach West > Melton (yet). Telecom has a wireless thing out here which is expensive and > according to them won't work with linux (I'm sure it can but I'm sick of > Telecom's shenanigans - Fscktards that they are). > > So I, for one, will settle for a "cludge" if that's what POTS is. > > </rant> > > Yuri -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
