On Tuesday 30 September 2003 10:05 pm, Ken Foskey wrote: > Some of our out of towners would be interested in this slashdot article > about portable satellite. > > It unfortunately lacks real detail about how it was done, looks like a > stay tuned sort of thing. > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/30/056219&mode=thread&tid=126&tid= >137&tid=193&tid=95 > > -- > Thanks > KenF > OpenOffice.org developer
Satellites are great mate, but they cost a motza to stick up in the air. I dont think most country folk could afford a private satellite! I have researched using satellite for Internet use, but the cost is prohibitive. 2 way satellite costs even more. For the present I am restricted to 56K which costs me about $60/month (line rental, calls, & ISP). One way satellite costs (last time I looked) about the same, plus satellite download costs of about $80/month. 2 way satellite was a lot more expensive than that. Even when someone sets up WiFi, it still costs to connect to an ISP, and it is likely that you will be sharing the connection with many, so the rate is likely not to be much over 56K anyway. Maybe everyone in the country should move to Sydney, & we can import everything from OS, & all lead a happy, useful life, & have access to decent download speeds. Until then, the govt needs to assist country dwellers to live a happy useful life supporting city folk with luxuries like food. Hopefully with Mr Alston being replaced, the new Minister will decide to keep Telstra in state hands, & ask that where possible economic parity for services should apply to all users of a service, so I could pay about $50/month & get the best download available (which would be IDSN where I live. At present Telstra charges 30c/hour connect fee for digital connection. I have asked about Dove, but no ISP I could find would use it. (Dove: Digital over voice, where you 'fool' the exchange into treating the call as a voice call which is not charged the digital rate.) regards Doug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
