Text 26609, 84 rader
Skriven 2012-03-10 22:16:43 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
  Kommentar till text 26606 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
Ärende: Seen-Bys
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Hi Roy,

On Sat 2012-Mar-10 07:02, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Richard Webb:

 RW> Yep, maybe, but their costs might be a bit more prohibitive
 RW> than the residential dsl or even cable some folks access.

Roy> They are. Hughes was overpriced when I checked them out at $100
Roy> install and about the same per month. I'm afraid to look into Dish
Roy> and Direct because I know what I pay for Sat TV. At the moment,
Roy> AT&T's U-verse is a deal at $29/mo compared to what I pay for Sat
Roy> TV.

YEp, a friend of mine has Hughes.  I'm waiting to hear from
him about reverse engineering their interface so he can
figure out how to run it off his emergency battery baqnk
without having to put his ups on it which he wants to do to
gain efficiency.

 RW>>  Yeah I know, Bob could pay hughes.net for satellite transceiver and
 RW>> internet.

 Roy>> Dishnet and DirecTV also provide their customers with the internet.

 RW> Could, but I think that's a value added on top of one of the plan
 RW> that offers him a bunch of television channels he's not interested in
 RW> paying for.

Roy> Unfortunately that's part of the 'package' deal, but I'm told that
Roy> you can get things seperated...and frankly, what is offered is
Roy> garbage IMO. I've been thinking about dropping Dishnet for a couple
Roy> of months now, but am reluctant to do so until I'm offered a package
Roy> that I can't refuse to take.

Yeah can relate.  I'm waiting until I can get moved, because a big part of what
i want/need to do for my business plans
require me to run my own ftp server for clients to access to get product
occasionally, that's the only way I'll go back
into that game instead of overnighting compact disks to
clients, and if they want it compressed (the audio that is)
they need to do the compression, so that any strange
atrifacts introduced are on their end.

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 Roy>> I suspect that Bob is a hermit with no interest in paying for a
 Roy>> service like the internet.

 RW> HE's indicated to me he'd pay for a good broadband that
 RW> allowed him to do what he wished to, and for awhile after
 RW> moving to this place did have a dial-up connectionthat he
 RW> dropped for various reasons.  I'd have to let him defend
 RW> himself on that one <g>.

Roy> At one time Bob indicated that he visits a library in one of the
Roy> towns nearby to access the internet. If he had an email account on
Roy> the order of an online email service where you get lots of storage,
Roy> like Yahoo or Hotmail. He could then get packets of Fidonet echomail
Roy> via file attached email. Copy those to a floppy and use those to
Roy> read/reply to echomail at home. Something like that wouldn't cost
Roy> him anything but a couple of gallons of fuel...

Yeah, I think he'll be back once he replaces a ups and some
other hardware he wants to replace.  LImited hours shared
phone line, but he'll be back.  I need to give him a jingle
anyway.

I think he keeps his email ad pretty close to the vest, some family and a
couple of very close friends.  MOst of his
internet time at the library I think is doing research and
the like, and FIdonet how he got his discussion fix.


See my note to Bjorn on one suggestion I gave him re the
terrestrial rf broadband guys, and a friend from MInnesota's solution a few
years ago.


Regards,
           Richard
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