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| Thread ID: 51408 | 2004-11-20 00:50:00 | Low budget rural internet | Barnzy (6015) | Press F1 |
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| 294109 | 2004-11-20 00:50:00 | OK, here's the problem. Friend of mine up north just bought his first computer ($4000 laptop and he wants a low budget solution?) Anyway he has a phone line to the end of his driveway, about 500 mtrs as the crow flies and telecon want 3 arms and half a leg to wire to the house. I was thinking maybe a wireless router at the pole and a jetsteam or similar connection. I toyed with the idea of using a cordless phone but gave up after finding no info on the net and figuring it's just too hard or it just don't work. Anyhoo. anyone got any suggestions? cheers:-} |
Barnzy (6015) | ||
| 294110 | 2004-11-20 01:15:00 | No. Could try this though from Vodafone (www.vodafone.co.nz) |
cadifan (286) | ||
| 294111 | 2004-11-20 01:17:00 | That was no to the budget solution. ;-) | cadifan (286) | ||
| 294112 | 2004-11-20 01:20:00 | the wireless router idea is probebley the best and the cheapest | sam_baird2003 (5464) | ||
| 294113 | 2004-11-20 04:46:00 | Do some basic questioning first. The 3 arms an a leg that Telecom will want is possibly largely unrelated to the "wire to the house" as much as the "contribution to a connection" under their Capital Contribution scheme for new connections to the exchange. You may find that the cost is largely the same, even for a pole mounted router. It still needs a "connection" to the exchange which requires a contribution to the infrastructure already in place. In many cases this can be thousands of dollars for rural areas, its a "user pays" scenario. There are only a few users on rural exchanges, so the cost of each connection is high. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 294114 | 2004-11-20 09:37:00 | Tell me about it,just paid $500 connection fee. How can we tell if it's justified when we have a monopoly? |
Thomas (1820) | ||
| 294115 | 2004-11-20 10:06:00 | These charges were subject to a lot of regulator scrutiny at the time from memory. They were scaled back as well, from the original proposal. It comes down to the user pays (and costs of having a modern exchange in a rural area ia high, per connection) or we all have to pay more on a subsidy basis. If subsidised, the true costs are hidden, and it would cost a significant amount to get a connection in an urban area. $500 is quite cheap I suspect But there are a lot of people using the Ohoka area exchange, so the costs are shared. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 294116 | 2004-11-20 18:31:00 | >$500 is quite cheap . In that case I will send them a $1000,one doesn't want to see them lose out;) |
Thomas (1820) | ||
| 294117 | 2004-11-21 00:29:00 | It would be soooo sad to see Mother Theresa of the bundled loop have to go without her lunch money. If I understand you (Godfather) correctly you are saying that even if you have a pole at the end of your driveway, that has an existing connection to your neighbour, Telecon will charge you the afforesaid limbs and parts thereof so some poor lackey working for Downer engineering to spend five minutes of his, no doubt underpaid, day to do something that we all already pay for and is supposed to be covered by the Kiwi Share understanding? I hope you are mistaken but, knowing the generosity of Telecon, you are most likely correct. The idea of the router seems good though speshly if you share the wireless network with the neighbours :-) Barnzy ps just did a spellcheck \I refuze 2 yoose americun speling |
Barnzy (6015) | ||
| 294118 | 2004-11-21 02:18:00 | 500 metres of cable would cost quite a lot to install; even the cable would cost a few bob, then there's trenching or, even worse, putting in poles. The P&T used to be a public service, and it was official policy that it was a good idea for people in rural areas to have access to luxuries like phones and electricity. So installation was free. |
Graham L (2) | ||
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