You don't say where you are but have you looked at Telstra Wide area charging zones.
I got untimed STD foa a client between Rutherglan and Albury (about 40+km) on their <50km wide area plan. On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Doug Foskey wrote: > 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 > -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com "We are either doing something, or we are not. 'Talking about' is a subset of 'not'." -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
