RE: Country bumpkin seeks fast internet connection

["Nigel Giddings" <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles,



Do you have a friend in the village???



Have you considered an 802.11g link (bridge) from your property to
another property closer to the exchange?



If you have near line of sight and use directional antennas you can get
very good results for point to point links using 802.11g.



Nigel



-----Original Message-----
From: biggles299 [mailto:charles@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 April 2008 21:03
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Country bumpkin seeks fast internet connection



OI lives out in the country and have right proper problems getting fast
internet connection.

The best I can get from the exchange is 1Mb on a good day. Seems someone
thought
baleing twine would be better than copper or fibre. The exchange is
allegedly 8MB enabled
(no LLU) but because it is almost 2miles from the village centre I have
yet to see better than
4Mb anywhere. We are a further mile outside the village hence our lousy
connection.
We don't have mains gas or sewerage so the chances of cable reaching us
sometime before
the next millenium are pretty slim

My question is can anybody comment on what the TRUE performance of
Satellite internet
connection is, not just download speed for large files but latency, ping
times etc. Does it still
require a phone line or broadband connection.
Is there a hybrid system that uses both broadband and Satellite to give
you good response
for smaller file stuff but a good download speed when you want it?

Thanks
Charles





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