The Perfect Storm / BUSH

[SeaWasp]

Yeah, I remember how painful dial up used to be!
I will never go back to it!

Trev.. Broadband will come down in price eventually. I am paying $60 Australian a month for 20 gig's allowance.. Dial-up was 25 a month. It used to be double that about a year ago! Competition is slowly driving the prices downwards..

[Trev]

Gordy and SeaWasp, thanks for the advice but I live in a really remote area that is very sparsely populated, broadband is possibly going to be available soon but only from one company that will have a monopoly. They are talking about €30/$40 month plus a couple hundred setup fee.
Dont think I'll be able to afford it any time soon. :(

Trev.

[terry5732]

Have you priced a satelite connection like directtv?

[ken_behrendt]

I, too, intend to get a broadband connection in the future. But, I want a cable modem, not DSL. A cable modem is about 100 times faster than my present 56 kbps modem and dial up connection. I'm waiting until they can get the price per month under $20 USD...I think it will happen in another year or so.


ken

[Trev]

Have you priced a satelite connection like directtv?

Hi Terry, I did look at them a year or so ago but they were big money and you needed a dialup for upload. Maybe I'll check and see if they have come down in price.

Trev.

[AgingYoung]

I thought that satellite connections used something similar to a cell phone up link. If you had a satellite you could hook up a network and start running wire to your neighbors. I think you're allowed to have a network. If they're interested you could defray the costs or maybe even make a few bucks.

Gene

[Trev]

Gene, the company thinking of installing broadband are planning on using a satellite up/down link which they'll then distribute thru the local telephone exchange. This is the only realisic option for the location.
As for running a cable to my neighbors house, it's 2Km away and he wouldn't want it :)

Trev.

[AgingYoung]

I see. So there's no shortage of sticks where you're at? There was this family back home that was so far off the main road that the power company wanted to charge them to run a line. They never had power. The mom ironed with iron irons that she heated on their wood stove. Their washing machine was propane powered. Good to hear you have a phone. :)

Gene

[Trev]

My house is the end of the phone lines, they dont go any farther out the peninsula. My electric comes from my own hydro electric generator, I finished building it about about a year ago, before that I used to run a light and laptop from my car battery. As for sticks, that's what's keeping me nice and warm right now :)

Trev.

[racer270]

the link below will show you all what my country does to crooked politicians, when thay finally catch the rotten sob's.......!

<-----------------check out the new avatar.......thanks bill, (action shots)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10355600/


and now you know why a politician will spend $10 million bucks, getting themselves elected , to a job that pays $150,000 a year for 4 years.....

it's the PERKS.....!!!!!!!!!

gordy