[plug] Leaving list

[James Elliott]

I used to live on a farm which had a radiophone and the best transmission
rate i could get was 7200 bps (7.2 k).  I got a Farmwide staellite dish (you
have to buy the dish, but they supply the tranceiver (nose cone unit) and
the inside unit) and that increased my downloads to around 150K and uploads
to around 100k)

James

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kai Jones" <kai.jones at broome.wa.gov.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 11:03 AM
Subject: RE: [plug] Leaving list


> BTW, I hate to mention this because it involves the word "Telstra" but
have
> you considered this ?
> http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/1142
>
> It might work ? dunno if it's offered through WestNet though...?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Shackleton [mailto:kevins at wn.com.au]
> > Sent: Monday, 21 July 2003 9:40 AM
> > To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > Subject: RE: [plug] Leaving list
> >
> >
> > DSL is only available for 3.5 km I think.  We are about 18 km from a
> > RIM that probably will never have DSL equipment fitted to it.
> >
> > The thing that really pisses you off is that we can get ~20 kbps
> > connect speed, and should be able to put through about 2000 bytes per
> > second.  In fact we get about 300 bytes per sec when it's running,
> > and probably 70% of the time there is no traffic at all, like 30 sec
> > to 1 minute with no TxD or RxD activity and 0 bytes in pppstats.  Is
> > that because the modem is getting errors (do analog packets with
> > errors show up as flashes on the TxD/RxD LEDs?) or is it that Telstra
> > or Westnet are ignoring our traffic for that time?  How do we tell?
> > I could buy a Maestro Woomera modem for $320 that has an LCD showing
> > line stats, but is it my fault that the service is useless?
> >
> > K.
> >
> > ---- Original Message ----
> > From: kai.jones at broome.wa.gov.au
> > To: plug at plug.linux.org.au,
> > Subject: RE: [plug] Leaving list
> > Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 08:11:46 +0800
> >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: Kevin Shackleton [mailto:kevins at wn.com.au]
> > >> Sent: Sunday, 20 July 2003 5:43 PM
> > >> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > >> Subject: [plug] Leaving list
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Regrettably I have to leave the PLUG list as I am unable to receive
> > >> emails at any reasonable rate at my present location near
> > >Dandaragan.
> > >>  Although I can usually connect at around 20 kbps, my median
> > >> throughput
> > >> is about 300 bytes per second.  I have been connected 2 hours just
> > >to
> > >> receive about 300 emails of which more than half are PLUG.  HTTP
> > >is a
> > >> non-event.
> > >>
> > >> I asked Westnet about setting up quality of service metrics
> > >> but received
> > >> a blank stare - perhaps they share a little of the problem
> > >> with Dick Alston.
> > >>
> > >> Another time . .
> > >>
> > >> Kevin.
> > >
> > >I don't know exactly where Dandaragan is but I've cruised past it a
> > >few
> > >times on the way to/from Perth, Carnarvon and Broome.
> > >I don't think the line's there would be too crash hot and I wouldn't
> > >be
> > >surprised if your throughput was not that good - I live less than one
> > >kilometre as the crow flies from the Broome exchange and on dial-up
> > >my
> > >connection completely sux, however, with ADSL it's great...this is
> > >gunna
> > >sound like a STUPID question but can you get ADSL in Dandaragan ?
> > >
> > >
>
>