On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:34, Nick Rout wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:10:29 +1300 > > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:06, Roger Searle wrote: > > > I ought to have said "affordable and practical" broadband options. > > > > Have you considered the ihug uhf radio option? > > It's _*very*_ fast and is affordable for the ordinary person on a salary. > > Speed in ~ 2Gbytes/hour, but the latency is awful. > > which service are you referring to? I assumed from the ihug site you > were referring to this: > > http://www.ihug.co.nz/connect/index.html > > But coverage does not seem to extend anywhere out of the upper North > Island. > > http://www.ihug.co.nz/connect/coverage/index.html > > Their only other broadband offerings appear to be bliink (adsl) and > ultra (satellite, requiring a telephone modem return link) Both of those > appear to be out for Roger, adsl not available and the quality of the > return link a problem for ultra. I was thinking of ultra. There are quite a few deeply rural schools that use it, and at least one list member. ( he might care to comment on it )
I dont think the outgoing return link has to be anything particularly hot. An ordinary modem is fine. Perhaps one of those more superior ones if the local loop is tens of kilometres, but West Melton isn't _that_ deeply rural. I wonder if those 2 fellows could share a connection with a radio link twixt the two of them. -- C. S.
