I am a country user. I approached Telstra re ISDN, but unfortunately the
service was not available on our (small) exchange. My question for others,
however is: Who in the major providers, will do DOV, as when I spoke to them,
no-one knew anything about it. (The small providers are too expensive
usually).
I am in the unfortunate position of not having ADSL or IDSN available, (We
need 25 users to get ADSL equipment installed, and the village only has about
100 houses, but even then I am on the extreme distance limit @ 8 Km. (ADSL
will run on country cable to 8Km apparently, but at reduced bandwith). IDSN
is not an option as the hardware is not in the exchange. I have looked at
Satellite, but the cost of running it is prohibitive (Satellite connection
$40+ ISP $25 + Line rental $25 + calls $5 = expensive) Unfortunately they
have priced 2 way satellite at above this cost.
The only way I can see to get reasonable access would be to set up a
Bluetooth radio uplink, line of site, to someone who has ADSL access, & will
let me piggyback. (ie I pay for their service) This would be about 10Km
direct, but I would have to find a suitable (freindly) site.
You others are so lucky in the cities! (& unfortunately I can see the
services not improving much in the country in the long term)
Doug
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