> Thanks to Mark and all the others (including a couple offlist) who > responded to this. The gist seems to be that Saturn is so new that > nobody really knows what the deal is in practise. > This is a late response as I've been away - but hopefully can shed some small light. I have a Saturn cable modem operated through Paradise Net - had it for about 9 months now - and I'm on the 512kbps deal - that's 512k down and 128k up (at the time the only ones available were 512k or 2Mbps - haven't seen the 2Mb rate offered recently). > Their Website info leaves much to be desired, so I am pursuing > various issues (actual max bandwidth and $/GB/month, whether a > static IP is available if required, what a cable modem actually IS > and how it is connected to our equipment) by contacting a techie > friend of a friend directly. All this info is readily available for > Jetstream, which shows that Saturn's marketing definitely needs > some improvement at this moment. I sure hope it does -- roll on > more and better competition! > One place that may have more detail - but not all you're looking for, is on the Wellington Saturn website. Saturn may not yet have installed the Chch internet cable head-end yet - hence not currently on offer in Chch. I suggest you ask Saturn http://www.saturn.co.nz/christchurch/ContactUs/Default.cfm?nav=contactus when they will be up and running with broadband internet - and hurry them along a bit. I get 1Gb of international traffic per month as standard on my deal (local traffic is set at one tenth of international traffic eg. 100Mb of national traffic is treated as 10Mb of international traffic - in other words if all your traffic is national you get 10Gb/mth). Rates/billing will depend on the ISP - Paradise is offered in product bundles with Saturn phone & cable TV services. A static IP address is supplied - I host a website from my PC through the cable modem - (the site home page was coming up sub-second on browsers in Australia last week and other page responses (through WebHub from a 200Mhz Pentium 2) were completely acceptable.) A cable modem is an RF to ethernet converter - it is a stand-alone box (250x180x50) that connects to an ethernet card (supplied) in the PC. I am only connecting to a single computer - you can connect to a network of computers but there's a bit more to it - ( I know of at least 2 sites in Wgtn doing this). No software install required (other than ethernet card driver/s maybe). More info on cable modem at http://www.com21.com/products/cable_modems/comport/ss02c.html . (This may not be the model that Saturn will supply in Chch) HTH Mike --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz
