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| 258861 | 2004-08-06 00:36:00 | The situation. The homestead concerned is 80km out in the sticks, middle of a farm, poor phone lines and an electric fence that creates noise on the line (neibours electric fence, no chance of doing anything about it). Anyhow the installed modem died and was replaced with a dse special, before he was connecting at 24 and getting disconnected every hour or so, now with the DSE special he connects at 9 and gets disconnected every few minutes. Obviously the only option is to get a good external modem, The question is if a modem specifically marketed as a rural unit will be significally better then a run of the mill unit, the price difference is $300 odd dollars and I don't want to stitch him up if the cost out ways the benefit. The unit in question is this www.dove.co.nz Anyone have any hands-on with a rural modem or thoughts on the matter? All info appreciated as always. |
metla (154) | ||
| 258862 | 2004-08-06 00:43:00 | I had to put a rural modem into a clients home and made a BIG difference. They had a laptop with the built-in modem and it would only connect at about 24 and disconnect randomly within about 2-5 mins. With the rural modem it usually connects at about 38-40 and think they've had it disconnect only a few times in the last year or so. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 258863 | 2004-08-06 00:44:00 | Sorry, forgot to say that I did try a normal external modem first with pretty much the same problems as the internal modem. | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 258864 | 2004-08-06 00:46:00 | Thats some solid info,Exactly what i needed. What model of modem did you use? |
metla (154) | ||
| 258865 | 2004-08-06 00:49:00 | The one you linked to in your first post. Maybe you can get one to try first to see if it will make a difference?? If not then send it back. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 258866 | 2004-08-06 00:51:00 | Thanks for the info. Yeah,i was only going to grab it if the supplier would accept it back. |
metla (154) | ||
| 258867 | 2004-08-06 03:12:00 | If the electric fence is clicking on the phone line then you will not get a 56k connection whatever modem you install. This is my experience anyway. I never tried the rural modem as I was told the electric fence would interfere with it. I slowed my modem to 33k and this worked fine. At present I have a very large click on my phoneline but it is no longer a prob. Jetstream solved that but not a option for your situation. Check out other options of connection. Telecom plan to have 99% of NZ covered with broadband by end of 2005. Either via Jetstream or satellite. Might be something in your area you are unaware of. | Berryb (654) | ||
| 258868 | 2004-08-06 03:32:00 | uh....I think you may find that its 99 percent of the population,not 99 percent of NZ,i may be wrong but if you look at the mobile coverage area its only about 40 percent of the country,which covers most of the population . ,and the person is currently using Satilite,which still requires the user be dialed up.They reallly need to do something about that though,That service is doomed as a niche market if they don't. thanks for your input. |
metla (154) | ||
| 258869 | 2004-08-06 03:37:00 | I'm not an electric fence expert (Others here may be? ) but my own experience has been that one in proper working order doesn't/shouldn't interfere/click. Occasional problems with our neighbour's fence have been fixed after I told him it was making clicking noises. Admittedly, that was on the radio - not the phone, but I recall cracked insulators are usually the cause... current shorting out & going to earth? The easiest way of finding the source is to walk along the fenceline line with a transistor radio.The clicks get louder as you get closer to the problem. That won't fix the isolation difficulty, but there's no excuse nowadays for an interfering electric fence - unless it's a really baaad neighbour. |
Laura (43) | ||
| 258870 | 2004-08-06 03:53:00 | You hit the nail on the head with your last 3 words. 2 families been sharing a fenceline for 3 generations,more bad blood then an Iraqi tribal council. |
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