RE: Re: Bit the bullet...

["Phillip Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

Now I have a little more time on my hands ... I had to pop round to the
mother-in-laws and then down to my local Jessops to go have a look at the
new Olympus E10 camera - Gorgeous! (the camera that is) ... I had a brief
play with one of the satellite based systems some time ago. I'm afraid that
I can't remember the name of the service provider as it wasn't me that
arranged it. I had been grumbling to a friend that my internet provision
was
so bad out here in ths sticks (actually only about 3 miles outside of
Winchester if that) and he mentioned that they had been looking at this
service at work in an evaluation of different provision methods for
reaching
outlying areas.

Firstly the kit might have been missing setup software or using an old
version or something but we had a pig of a time getting my machine to
recognise the card as anything sensible ... once we did it was never
actually stable for too long with many "blue screens of death"
popping up.

Once up and running we did experience speeds of up to about 2Mbits as
claimed but to be honest it wasn't sustained and given that your uplink is
still phone based and so you're still paying call charges then I soon moved
on from the idea. I believe that the service provider has not backed out of
the service - can anyone shed light on if that is true?

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Watt [mailto:kennethwatt@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 25 March 2001 10:34
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Bit the bullet...
>
>
> Phil,
>
> I've been thinking about this as a serious option, what is the
> skinny on the
> service?
>
> Ta
>
> K
>