Oscar Plameras wrote: This is not a personal attack on anyone!
> > > doug foskey wrote: > > > > > Lucky city-ites with cable & ADSL. > > > > Most people in "the city" can not get ADSL either. > > a) Because they are too far from an exchange and > > b) The technology only allows a few adsl services in each cable. > > > > How about making a little research and try WIRELESS. Check, > > http://www.nodedb.com/australia/nsw/sydney/ Yep, that is pretty good advice about research {;-). We are talking 802.11b, which is 11 channels of 10Mb/sec stuff (on a good, clear day) less that taken up by "mobile base phones", toys, garage door controllers, etc, etc, then divided by the population of Sydney! Dang that old 300 baud modem is starting to look really fast folks. The limiting problem on wireless technology is to get the bandwidth for "everyone", you end up frying the user. Wireless works well in an open office. > > More and more hobbyist are only willing to share resources. You obviously have never frequented the australian wireless list where you would be told time and time again that this sort of activity is illegal and you need a carrier liscence (sp?) for it. Been there, done that, have 7 listings in the node list, got the t-shirt, ran the WUG, gotta better things to do, i.e. I got fed up with people who didn't get past the sales brouchure from the wireless sleazes and had NAC (not a clue). And I still haven't solved the problem of how to legally get a 10 metre mast up to service the one person 3kms away (who can not get adsl) with a clue. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures <Bicycles, Computers, GIS, Printing, Publishing> "People without trees are like fish without clean water" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
