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| Thread ID: 64194 | 2005-12-06 22:54:00 | Phones and internet connection in rural areas | turtle63 (9378) | PC World Chat |
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| 410752 | 2005-12-07 02:17:00 | dunno about bordernet but ihug sattelite always did still require a phone connection cause the sytsem cant talk back 'up' to the satellite thru the dish......you dialled in and the data 'sent' from your pc was sent thru the phone line including requests for webpages etc etc........it would download very fast thru the dish but you NEEDED the phone line...... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 410753 | 2005-12-07 05:14:00 | You can have Satellite with dial up or you can have this... Bordernet’s vSat two way broadband broadcast service is an “always on” solution allowing the seamless transition of traffic to and from the Internet without the need of a dial up internet connection. Based around what is a powerful solution designed for SMB (Small to Medium Business) and corporate clients, 2 way satellite is the leading technology in communication stability quoting uptimes upwards of 99.7% www.bordernet.co.nz |
turtle63 (9378) | ||
| 410754 | 2005-12-07 06:08:00 | one thing you havn't mentioned is how far would you have to run phones lines (if you had to) ?? | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 410755 | 2005-12-07 08:31:00 | Don't know, could only be 300 metres or it could be a km or more. Not worried to much about that at this stage, just trying to look at buying the land cheapest I guess with an alternative option to using Telecom and the lines if we needed to and wanted to of course. It's $2600 to set up the satellite for use not using dial up And if you could use Voip it would work out ok over a period of time, if and when that was available here. I have emailed them today to find out. It's available in OZ so .... |
turtle63 (9378) | ||
| 410756 | 2005-12-07 08:56:00 | km or more ?? i wouldn't bother, just get the lines in as it will be cheaper and you won't be relying on a 3rd party who may close down any day. odds are you will have power lines put in, just do both at the same time. be cheaper than solar + sat phone/mobile. alternative power and phone is really only worth it if the install cost of lines is huge. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 410757 | 2005-12-07 09:28:00 | YOu have a good point actually and if it is what I think it would be aprox 1km and then up the hill......... Would definetly have to be looked into, so far I know everyone up the valley have been resisting it. Thanks for your input you have had some good points to make, are you living in the same kind of spot?? And maybe gone through this process?? Cheers Vicki |
turtle63 (9378) | ||
| 410758 | 2005-12-07 10:34:00 | i've worked on a few places that are in this type of sitution. one has a transmitter, another was over 5km from nearest phone lines (no idea how they got on but mobile phone wasn't a problem), others where just going to cost $20k-$50k to put the power in so they went to solar/generator. also family member has been looking at a block that will be somewhat exspencive to put power and phone into so alternatives have been breifly looked at and of course this will reflect in the price of the block. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 410759 | 2005-12-07 20:25:00 | So just goes to show Satellite could be a way to go :) Yes had heard that power can be pretty dear, this goes past the gate and the guy next door has just had it put on, plus the guy who owns the land works at the local power place and will put it in cheap, but still the price should reflect. Guess it all depends on what interest rates might do today as well :( Probably go up. |
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| 410760 | 2005-12-07 21:23:00 | they just put power in next door and they didn't put in any phone cables ?? btw around here most of the new subs divisoins/blocks (ie cutting farms into 10acre blocks) the power and phone is responsibility of the seller/ maker of the blocks. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 410761 | 2005-12-08 01:03:00 | What you need is a time warp. Perhaps the BBC could lend you Dr Who. Once upon a time, before the days of market reforms, it was considered to be a Good Thing for services to be provided to people living in "remote areas". But then the P&T, then NZPO, was a Public Service. And the NZED generated and distributed the power. I have a copy of a book put out by the P&T in about 1930. It has full instructions (probably meant for farmers) so you could build your own phone lines to the nearest road, using galvanised wire, even with a full description of how to make a Brittania soldered joint. Of course a kilometre of galvanised wire would cost a lot these days. A kilometre of cable is very expensive. Burying it is exeptionally expensive. |
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