Re: Att. John Barnes!
Up front equipment and installation run from $350 to $500 with a commitment
of 12-24 months. No option for extra bandwidth. One cuts you off for 24
hours and the other reduces speed to around 100kbps until you reduce your
rolling monthly allowance by 10%. You can use the 3 hours free each night
to download quite a bit. The other one you just have to ration your monthly
allowance and a DVD full would be 1/3 of your months allowance on the $80 mo
plan, and you would have to be very careful the rest of the month.
"Tony Sperling mail.dk>" <tony.sperling@db<REMOVE> wrote in message
news:Oiz%238J0EIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Wow! I expected something awfull, and that is not an apparent bargain, but
> it is also not the worst-case scenario after all. Pragmatism has a natural
> starting-point. The download limits are a turn-off, of course - if you
> want to go for a DVD size ISO, how much would that raise your bill?
>
> The 1Mbps is O.K. (I have 10) though I am mildly surprised at your
> effective speed, I didn't expect it to fall that much with probably not so
> many fighting over the available bandwidth, I guess that low usage in your
> area doesn't mean the satellite isn't busy. The efficiency on my cable is
> swaying violently, I've spent more than six hours downloading a DVD once -
> on the average it would take 1½ hour, but I remember the day XP x64 trial
> was released, suddenly everybody around was logging off, or something,
> because I had that one down and burned within 10 Min. I've only seen
> something similar on one or two other occasions. I pay less than $60 at
> the current rate, I know I will not match that out in the wild.
>
> Oh, yeah - Internet Radio! I love that too - fortunately Danish Radio has
> an exemplary service in that department - 22 round-the-clock free
> stations, and all of them free of advertising and almost no, or very
> little talk! Amazing!
>
> Well, thanks John! There's food for thought - except - the subscription;
> did they deliver the disk and the router with your account? And is that a
> standard router, or a $400 something that nobody else will ever use?
>
>
> Tony. . .
>
>
> "John Barnes" <jbarnes@email.net> wrote in message
> news:%23rNSP5yEIHA.3940@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Hi Tony,
>>
>> A couple of years ago, I found a site where I could install a satellite
>> antenna without having to cut down any trees. I am about 10 miles from
>> both cable and DSL availability and 5 miles from the closest wireless, so
>> for me it was 20-22k dial-up or satellite, 3 choices. One like Jud
>> mentioned and 2 with both directions via dish. No power line available
>> here.
>> One has a rolling monthly bandwidth limit and the other a rolling daily.
>> The cost is ridiculous as well as the bandwidth, but I like to listen to
>> internet radio during part of the day (again satellite radio is okay, but
>> not totally) and over the air is useless (too many hills). My current
>> service is $70 mo for 375mb daily (425 max any plan) and 1Mbps download
>> (actual file download speed of 120 kbps) 200kbps upload. They do have a
>> 3 hour unlimited, at the moment, download window overnight.
>> Incidentally, I love the country and wouldn't move back to the city
>> except for health reasons if they should develop. The current 100 mile
>> air ambulance ride and closest dialysis center would be impractical for
>> anyone with serious heart or kidney problems.
>>
>> "Tony Sperling mail.dk>" <tony.sperling@db<REMOVE> wrote in message
>> news:OxZ9v0wEIHA.4400@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> Oh, I was not aware of any such interference, Jud - I will certainly
>>> keep this in mind. In the final end I may decide to completely ignore
>>> this, of course, but in the mean-while, I'll keep this in mind! Good
>>> point!
>>>
>>> Yes, I know about satellite, if you can pay you can have almost anything
>>> you can imagine of course, and wireless is on the 'go' as well, but I
>>> have a suspicion that these are targeted very much at businesses? Things
>>> move quickly, though, and I have not followed up on the costs lately.
>>>
>>> I have cable now, but living like that it would be pretty much out of
>>> the question, in most cases this requires a community that can split the
>>> cost of having a cable in the first place.
>>>
>>> Yes, satellite would be fine, but what will a subscription amount to,
>>> now that they are nearly giving away high-speed cable connections (the
>>> not-quite-broadband-type!)
>>>
>>>
>>> Tony. . .
>>>
>>>
>>> "Jud Hendrix" <none@none.com> wrote in message
>>> news:g4ojh3to67co3njaqf5ij1k2ivlbqb19tq@4ax.com...
>>>> On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 12:23:25 +0200, "Tony Sperling"
>>>> <tony.sperling@db<REMOVE>mail.dk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Here, in Denmark the Power Service Distributors have started putting
>>>>>Broadband onto their power lines, it just needs 'copper', as I
>>>>>understand.
>>>>
>>>> Please, do us radio-amateurs a favourite, and do not get into
>>>> powerlined
>>>> internet. It causes quite a lot of interference on our bands. It should
>>>> be
>>>> banned all over the world. Just get cable or ADSL :-D
>>>>
>>>>>I am about to be fed-up with the big city life and may seek out some
>>>>>property out in the big forrests somewhere and would like to gather
>>>>>some of
>>>>>the options in advance - I understand you are living in a not so
>>>>>densely
>>>>>populated area yourself?
>>>>
>>>> I saw in Australia they offer broadband via satellite. Upload via your
>>>> phone, download via sat. Maybe they offer that in Denmark?
>>>>
>>>> jud
>>>
>>>
>>
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