On 3/12/2011 11:09 PM, Kenneth Lerman wrote:
> A first class parcel costs $1.05 plus .17 per ounce.
>
> That's pretty cheap.
>
> Ken
>
> On 03/12/2011 09:53 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote:
>> On 3/11/2011 11:32 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote:
>>> I'm not sure how typical my situation is, but it costs me about $20
A first class parcel costs $1.05 plus .17 per ounce.
That's pretty cheap.
Ken
On 03/12/2011 09:53 PM, Kent A. Reed wrote:
> On 3/11/2011 11:32 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote:
>> I'm not sure how typical my situation is, but it costs me about $20 to
>> download 1GB of data, so it's not exactly cheap to d
Dave wrote:
> Some areas around Fort Wayne (near where I live) were a test bed for
> Verizon to install Fiber optic cables right to the end users house.
> They spent a lot of money installing fiber and the people that have the
> service called "Fios" have very good
> internet speeds.Veri
On 3/11/2011 11:32 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote:
> I'm not sure how typical my situation is, but it costs me about $20 to
> download 1GB of data, so it's not exactly cheap to download the latest
> EMC2. I wonder if there would be a demand for EMC2 on some sort of flash
> media? How cheap could it be?
I d
BTW,
All telcom is not bad in Tennessee. I worked at HCA corporate
offices in Nashville, and
in Cool Springs (just South of Nashville) and the commercial service
there was good and
reliable.
My daughter lives in Clarksville TN (about 30 miles NW of here near
the Kentucky border,
and her inter
I am in Tennessee about 25 miles outside Nashville.
We are using Sprint Wireless because the BEST we can get dialup
is 24kbps (yes, 24, not 56 or near) due to old wires that AT&T is not
willing to replace in the 6 years we have been here.
We are on the 'border' between Comcast and Charter cable, a
Some areas around Fort Wayne (near where I live) were a test bed for
Verizon to install Fiber optic cables right to the end users house.
They spent a lot of money installing fiber and the people that have the
service called "Fios" have very good
internet speeds.Verizon bundled Internet,
Ian W. Wright wrote:
> One option in the Uk is internet via a sattelite link - the
> same sattelites that provide sattelite TV I think. The
> service costs are little more that normal 'phone line DSL..
> Doesn't anything similar exist in the US??
>
>
Sure, but it is expensive for mediocre ban
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Brian Pitt wrote:
> it does but its horribly slow because of the latency issues
> here's what I got using Hughes satellite service
>
> bash-3.1$ ping google.com
> PING google.com (74.125.227.17) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 74.125.227.17: icmp_seq=1 ttl=5
2011/3/12 Kirk Wallace :
> Cell data was very slow and very expensive so
> I haven't looked into it for a couple of years.
I had a miserable speed too until last year they upgraded "my" base
station to 3G, which I did not really hope for, because I also live in
rural area pretty far from "civiliza
On Saturday 12 March 2011 13:11:25 Ian W. Wright wrote:
> One option in the Uk is internet via a sattelite link - the
> same sattelites that provide sattelite TV I think. The
> service costs are little more that normal 'phone line DSL..
> Doesn't anything similar exist in the US??
> Ian
it does
One option in the Uk is internet via a sattelite link - the
same sattelites that provide sattelite TV I think. The
service costs are little more that normal 'phone line DSL..
Doesn't anything similar exist in the US??
Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield UK
On 12/03/2011 19:03, Dave wro
Peter Blodow wrote:
> ... and the electric power supply isn't much better, telling from what I
> read in the "Single phase lathe spindle motor" thread. America used to
> be my dream land a while ago, I considered emigrating from here How
> is this going to end?
>
Who needs 3-phase? Now t
Dave wrote:
> The internet infrastructure in the US is a mess once you get off the
> beaten path at all.
>
Even in suburban areas it is not great! I used to have DSL, but the
cables in the area are so bad I now BARELY have plain phone service. We
have a RT (remote terminal) half a mile away
Dave schrieb:
> The internet infrastructure in the US is a mess once you get off the
> beaten path at all.
>
> The poor state of the infrastructure in the US is really going to bite
> this country in the butt eventually.
>
> Dave
>
>
... and the electric power supply isn't much better, telling
The internet infrastructure in the US is a mess once you get off the
beaten path at all.
For a while there was talk of doing something with the internet like
they did way back when with the rural electrification projects of the
1920s and 30's, but I think that was shelve when the government sta
On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 09:34 +, Ian W. Wright wrote:
> On 12/03/2011 08:17, Viesturs Lācis wrote:
> > And what kind of internet connection is that - 20USD/1GB? Here, in
> > Latvia I have mobile broadband connection ~14$ for 10GB traffic and
> > ~40$ for unlimited traffic (they limit DL speed, on
I was at Walmart this last week and Virgin Mobile has a wireless
internet plan (plus wireless device cost - USB plugin or wireless
hotspot) for $40 per month unlimited data (supposidly).
They ride on a subset of Sprints network I believe.
I was looking since I will need such service this summer
On 3/11/2011 11:32 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote:
> I'm not sure how typical my situation is, but it costs me about $20 to
> download 1GB of data, so it's not exactly cheap to download the latest
> EMC2. I wonder if there would be a demand for EMC2 on some sort of flash
> media? How cheap could it be?
>
On 3/11/2011 11:32 AM, Kirk Wallace wrote:
> I'm not sure how typical my situation is, but it costs me about $20 to
> download 1GB of data, so it's not exactly cheap to download the latest
> EMC2. I wonder if there would be a demand for EMC2 on some sort of flash
> media? How cheap could it be?
>
On 11 March 2011 16:32, Kirk Wallace wrote:
> I'm not sure how typical my situation is, but it costs me about $20 to
> download 1GB of data, so it's not exactly cheap to download the latest
> EMC2. I wonder if there would be a demand for EMC2 on some sort of flash
> media? How cheap could it be?
On 12/03/2011 08:17, Viesturs Lācis wrote:
> And what kind of internet connection is that - 20USD/1GB? Here, in
> Latvia I have mobile broadband connection ~14$ for 10GB traffic and
> ~40$ for unlimited traffic (they limit DL speed, once above 10 or 15
> GB limit).
While here in the 'developed worl
2011/3/11 Kirk Wallace :
> I'm not sure how typical my situation is, but it costs me about $20 to
> download 1GB of data, so it's not exactly cheap to download the latest
> EMC2. I wonder if there would be a demand for EMC2 on some sort of flash
> media? How cheap could it be?
Wow, I am surprised.
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 08:32:49AM -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote:
> I'm not sure how typical my situation is, but it costs me about $20 to
> download 1GB of data, so it's not exactly cheap to download the latest
> EMC2. I wonder if there would be a demand for EMC2 on some sort of flash
> media? How che
I'm not sure how typical my situation is, but it costs me about $20 to
download 1GB of data, so it's not exactly cheap to download the latest
EMC2. I wonder if there would be a demand for EMC2 on some sort of flash
media? How cheap could it be?
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http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine
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