[Coco] Re: broadband -- anyone on satellite?
farna at att.net
farna at att.net
Mon Aug 28 12:01:43 EDT 2006
When I retire from the USAF around June 2007 I plan on moving "back home". I inherited grandmas old haouse and plan on a little remodeling. The downside is it's 8 miles to the nearest town, so broadband, DSL or cable, is out. I've checked on a couple satellite systems that promise 128K or better speeds. Some require you to purchase $500+ or equipment then charge about hte same as most broadband companies ($45-$50), but one supplies the equipment for $60 a month on a two year contract. They all mention "excessive bandwidth use" but don't define it. Basically if you're using a lot of bandwidth it cuts down speed and access for other customers, so if you use "to much" they cut your speed back to 1/2 rate. I doubt I would ever use "to much". I think that's just to keep people from running a web server or something like that from the satellite system, normal access and downloading shouldn't be affected.
I know weather can affect the system, but are there any other drawbacks? I'm in Afghanistan right now and there is a contractor with a satellite system that I pay $35 a month for access at 100K. It's a bit better than dial-up, but not cable speeds. I'm hoping any system in the states would be a bit faster. The system here is basically a server that everyone logs into and the server has a high speed satellite link. It can slow to dial-up speeds when a lot of people are on.
--
Frank Swygert
Publisher, "American Motors Cars"
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> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:17:23 +1000
> From: "Bob Devries" <devries.bob at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Finally got broadband (ot)
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> I really don't know how I did without ADSL before, and yet I did; starting
> with a 300 baud modem, migrating through 28.8 and 33.6 finally to 56K modem
> dial-up.
>
> I also finally opted for 256/64k ADSL when I moved house to this little
> town. In the end, it was no more expensive, and a whole lot more reliable.
>
> I don't think I'd be able to go back, though.
>
> --
> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>
> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
> the capacity to be his spokesman,
> so that I know how to help the weary.
>
> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce W. Calkins" <brucecalkins at bellsouth.net>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 8:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Finally got broadband (ot)
>
>
> > You do know how to hurt a guy, David. I finely got a firewall / gateway
> > for
> > dial-up, so at least I'm not waiting while my wife writes one more E-mail.
> > It will only take a couple minutes to reconfigure it for broadband,
> > if-ever,
> > when-ever. Enjoy, I off to check out my access ability at school as I
> > face
> > "The First Day".
> >
> > Bruce W.
> >
> >
> >
> >> Yay for me!
> >>
> >> After 4 years of waiting, and having to move house so I can get it..
> >> I've finally got broadband!
> >>
> >> If I could tie this announcement into the Coco somehow, I would.. but
> >> *shrugs*
> >>
> >> Now, back to your regularly scheduled mailing list :)
> >>
> >> - David
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:43:26 +1000
> From: David Roper <dave at ebonhost.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Finally got broadband (ot)
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
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> Hi Bob,
>
> I started out at 2400, jumping to 14.4k then up to 56k, and 128k ISDN.
>
> Now I'm on 1500/256k :) :) :)
>
> - David
>
>
> Bob Devries wrote:
> > I really don't know how I did without ADSL before, and yet I did;
> > starting with a 300 baud modem, migrating through 28.8 and 33.6
> > finally to 56K modem dial-up.
> >
> > I also finally opted for 256/64k ADSL when I moved house to this
> > little town. In the end, it was no more expensive, and a whole lot
> > more reliable.
> >
> > I don't think I'd be able to go back, though.
> >
> > --
> > Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
> >
> > Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
> > the capacity to be his spokesman,
> > so that I know how to help the weary.
> >
> > website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
> > my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce W. Calkins"
> > <brucecalkins at bellsouth.net>
> > To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 8:53 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] Finally got broadband (ot)
> >
> >
> >> You do know how to hurt a guy, David. I finely got a firewall /
> >> gateway for
> >> dial-up, so at least I'm not waiting while my wife writes one more
> >> E-mail.
> >> It will only take a couple minutes to reconfigure it for broadband,
> >> if-ever,
> >> when-ever. Enjoy, I off to check out my access ability at school as
> >> I face
> >> "The First Day".
> >>
> >> Bruce W.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Yay for me!
> >>>
> >>> After 4 years of waiting, and having to move house so I can get it..
> >>> I've finally got broadband!
> >>>
> >>> If I could tie this announcement into the Coco somehow, I would.. but
> >>> *shrugs*
> >>>
> >>> Now, back to your regularly scheduled mailing list :)
> >>>
> >>> - David
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:55:46 -0400
> From: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz <dennis-i at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Finally got broadband (ot)
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
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> At 09:43 PM 8/28/06 +1000, David Roper wrote:
> >I started out at 2400, jumping to 14.4k then up to 56k, and 128k ISDN.
> >Now I'm on 1500/256k :) :) :)
>
> Children. :)
>
> 110 baud here in 1979, and some folks in this crowd remembering my funny
> story about the telephone guy having to come out from the central office
> and twist two lines together to get the Model I to work at the 300 baud
> upgrade, and give me one of the first private telephone lines in town.
> (There were 330 residents and about 100 lines available when I moved in.)
>
> Anyway, 27 years later I'm now on 5M/256k with a private local ISP serving
> fewer than 1,000 customers. My stepson built the system, Linux-based, all
> glass up to the pole 300 feet away.
>
> Dennis
> (back to lurking & list management)
>
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:56:09 +1000
> From: "Bob Devries" <devries.bob at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Finally got broadband (ot)
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
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>
> Hehe,
> oops, I forgot about the 14.4 :)
>
> --
> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>
> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
> the capacity to be his spokesman,
> so that I know how to help the weary.
>
> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Roper" <dave at ebonhost.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 9:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Finally got broadband (ot)
>
>
> > Hi Bob,
> >
> > I started out at 2400, jumping to 14.4k then up to 56k, and 128k ISDN.
> >
> > Now I'm on 1500/256k :) :) :)
> >
> > - David
> >
> >
> > Bob Devries wrote:
> >> I really don't know how I did without ADSL before, and yet I did;
> >> starting with a 300 baud modem, migrating through 28.8 and 33.6
> >> finally to 56K modem dial-up.
> >>
> >> I also finally opted for 256/64k ADSL when I moved house to this
> >> little town. In the end, it was no more expensive, and a whole lot
> >> more reliable.
> >>
> >> I don't think I'd be able to go back, though.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
> >>
> >> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
> >> the capacity to be his spokesman,
> >> so that I know how to help the weary.
> >>
> >> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
> >> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce W. Calkins"
> >> <brucecalkins at bellsouth.net>
> >> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> >> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 8:53 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [Coco] Finally got broadband (ot)
> >>
> >>
> >>> You do know how to hurt a guy, David. I finely got a firewall /
> >>> gateway for
> >>> dial-up, so at least I'm not waiting while my wife writes one more
> >>> E-mail.
> >>> It will only take a couple minutes to reconfigure it for broadband,
> >>> if-ever,
> >>> when-ever. Enjoy, I off to check out my access ability at school as
> >>> I face
> >>> "The First Day".
> >>>
> >>> Bruce W.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Yay for me!
> >>>>
> >>>> After 4 years of waiting, and having to move house so I can get it..
> >>>> I've finally got broadband!
> >>>>
> >>>> If I could tie this announcement into the Coco somehow, I would.. but
> >>>> *shrugs*
> >>>>
> >>>> Now, back to your regularly scheduled mailing list :)
> >>>>
> >>>> - David
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:59:49 +1000
> From: David Roper <dave at ebonhost.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Finally got broadband (ot)
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Message-ID: <44F2DAB5.8090703 at ebonhost.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Nice, Dennis
>
> But to continue the measuring, I'll put forward that by age and date,
> one of the earliest users of the "Internet" here, having surfed on my
> 2400 through a BBS gateway when I was 12.. :)
>
> (btw, currently 27)
>
> - David
>
>
> Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
> > At 09:43 PM 8/28/06 +1000, David Roper wrote:
> >
> >> I started out at 2400, jumping to 14.4k then up to 56k, and 128k ISDN.
> >> Now I'm on 1500/256k :) :) :)
> >>
> >
> > Children. :)
> >
> > 110 baud here in 1979, and some folks in this crowd remembering my funny
> > story about the telephone guy having to come out from the central office
> > and twist two lines together to get the Model I to work at the 300 baud
> > upgrade, and give me one of the first private telephone lines in town.
> > (There were 330 residents and about 100 lines available when I moved in.)
> >
> > Anyway, 27 years later I'm now on 5M/256k with a private local ISP serving
> > fewer than 1,000 customers. My stepson built the system, Linux-based, all
> > glass up to the pole 300 feet away.
> >
> > Dennis
> > (back to lurking & list management)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:16:18 +1000
> From: "Bob Devries" <devries.bob at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Finally got broadband (ot)
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Message-ID: <013e01c6ca9b$cc927610$0701a8c0 at master>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
> reply-type=response
>
> On that note, I was on the 'net in 19923 ( I was 40 at that time)
>
> I still remember the consternation of a few of you Americans that an Aussie
> had joined the ranks. There was a certain amount of disbelief.
>
> --
> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
>
> Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
> the capacity to be his spokesman,
> so that I know how to help the weary.
>
> website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
> my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Roper" <dave at ebonhost.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 9:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Finally got broadband (ot)
>
>
> > Nice, Dennis
> >
> > But to continue the measuring, I'll put forward that by age and date, one
> > of the earliest users of the "Internet" here, having surfed on my 2400
> > through a BBS gateway when I was 12.. :)
> >
> > (btw, currently 27)
> >
> > - David
> >
> >
> > Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
> >> At 09:43 PM 8/28/06 +1000, David Roper wrote:
> >>
> >>> I started out at 2400, jumping to 14.4k then up to 56k, and 128k ISDN.
> >>> Now I'm on 1500/256k :) :) :)
> >>>
> >>
> >> Children. :)
> >>
> >> 110 baud here in 1979, and some folks in this crowd remembering my funny
> >> story about the telephone guy having to come out from the central office
> >> and twist two lines together to get the Model I to work at the 300 baud
> >> upgrade, and give me one of the first private telephone lines in town.
> >> (There were 330 residents and about 100 lines available when I moved in.)
> >>
> >> Anyway, 27 years later I'm now on 5M/256k with a private local ISP
> >> serving
> >> fewer than 1,000 customers. My stepson built the system, Linux-based, all
> >> glass up to the pole 300 feet away.
> >>
> >> Dennis
> >> (back to lurking & list management)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:17:01 -0400
> From: "Rod Barnhart" <rod.barnhart at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Status on Rainbow Project
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> The last thing I saw on this list about it was a suggestion to wait an
> appropriate amount of time before contacting Lonnie's estate to make sure
> that everything is "go" before moving forward. I'm sure Michael will weigh
> in with a status update soon, though.
>
> Rod
>
>
> On 8/26/06, Dave <dx375 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone have the status on the Rainbow magazine scan project?
> >
> > I have defered scanning the ones I have.
> >
> > No sense in doing this twice.
> >
> > Cheers Dave
> >
> >
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