RE: Re: Bit the bullet...

["Kenneth Watt" <kennethwatt@xxxxxxx>]

Phil,

Apparently its now being done by the company at the link I put in an
earlier
post. On the face of it looks like a good deal as I can still use BT Surf
for the uplink and use the satellite for the downlink, giving me off-peak
access for a fixed cost with almost broadband speeds for downloading. How
good the service is, is really the crunch for it but at ?156 for a year
including the DVB card and the ISP charges it looks really appealing
compared with BT's Openworld or Telewest's Blue Yonder costings and, after
two years subscription the card is yours to keep anyways I presume that in
the second year the card cost is out of the equation meaning it's only 200
Euros (?119) a year for all the downloading you want 24/7. At the end of
the
day I don't upload a lot it's the downloading speed for surfing, getting
files ;o) etc. that is my concern.

My only problem is, how good is it, really as it seems to good to be true,
getting virtual broadband access for a tenner a month?

K

-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 25 March 2001 17:04
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Bit the bullet...

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
>





Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/



_________________________________________________________

Do You Yahoo!?

Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com