[plug] wanted - 2nd hand Skymedia 200D DVB card

[Onno Benschop]

Steve Boak wrote:

>Onno, are you using a static IP with Bordernet? They want to charge me 
>$35/month for a static IP, whereas I was paying Westnet $25/year for the same 
>thing. So far I have refused to cough up, but that means our webserver is 
>currently unavailable from the outside world.
>  
>
Sorry for the delay, the storm that hit Brisbane three weeks ago took 
out my modem and I've just moved from QLD to SA. My fingers are still 
crossed about the modem because that same storm appears to also have 
taken out the wireless repeater, the base station and the set-top box, 
the modem still seems flaky - expensive hobby this.

The good news is that I've also learnt that it should be possible to use 
a smaller 1.2m dish with a 2Watt transmitter, rather than a 1.8m dish 
with a 1Watt transmitter. (Or even a 90cm dish with a 4Watt transmitter 
I think - lots of money :-)

I don't have an account with Bordernet, but I speak with them regularly. 
One of my clients has a one-way setup that I needed to configure and for 
that I needed to compile drivers.

I used source from a website that was the old New Zealand iHug site 
IIRC, but unfortunately a late night rm -rf . in the wrong directory 
took care of that, so unless I spend some time on-line looking for it, I 
cannot give you a URL, though I suspect that some googling would locate 
it pretty soon.

I do have a .deb for the kernel that I made, that used the standard 
Debian /boot/config file, so I can mail that to you for a small 
donation, this project took some 80 hours so far :-( [only partially 
kidding about the money :-| - replacing fuel tanks, tyres and now a fair 
bit of electronics isn't good for my sanity or bank-balance]

I still have reports about tellique being unstable and not connecting 
properly and as soon as I've waded through 1100 emails that are in my 
InBox, I'll be contacting Bordernet about that.


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