My e-mail address shows "id" as country code but at present I just moved to "au" and still using my old mailbox.
I agree with you all that
the first class connection will be broadband.
I happened to have a copy
of Maximum PC magazine (US magazine) November 1999 issue
where they compare very
detail between DSL, Cable and Satellite.
In Jakarta, the last time
I was there, they already have Cable (Cablevision).
Thru this Cable, you can
connect your Cable Modem and you can choose 2 ISPs.
My Internet Cafe use Cable
connection, the personal connection, so the average
roughly only around 25 Kbps,
maybe because there are about 7 PCs in one location.
I can move to corporate
connection which cost me more.
With this cable connection
I already save a lot, compared to using dial-up, where the Telecommunitaion
Authorities charge by time.
My friend in another area in Jakarta, got (the same) cable connection up to 256.6 Kbps.
Some companies start to offer
Satellite Connection.
One company, where another
friend works, has its principal in Hongkong : Pan Asia Sat Media Ltd.,
Hongkong
I just wonder why direcPC
does not have rep in Jakarta.
Is it because of the satellite
? Which Satellite is used by your DirecPC in the Phillipines, Robert ?
I hear that DSL is just about to come in Jakarta.
Well, now I move to where
I am now (Perth).
In this part of the country,
DSL is also just about to come.
Also the cable. They always
start with Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane area.
Maybe Cynthia can tell more.
Btw she use ISDN.
ISDN is also available here
in Perth.
Interesting is the Satellite
internet access.
I talk to Access 1 today,
they provide 400 Kbps, 128 Kbps Satellite access.
I ask them to show me the
speedtest.
They do two speed test to
the 400 Kbps connection.
One is their own speed test
: between here (Perth) and their Headquarter in Sydney.
Result around 900 Kbps.
They say for 400 Kbps it possible to get real speed far above 400 Kbps.
But (because I ask) for
128 Kbps it is limited to 128 Kbps.
I don't know if this is
just a sales tactic to lure me to more expensive connection, anyway I will
try to subscribe 128 Kbps first.
Second test is using http://www.computingcentral.com/topics/bandwidth/
The result (for the 400
Kbps) the maximum is around 390 Kbps, sometimes it got worse until 119
Kbps.
So, Robert, what is your
number overthere ?
Unless I am able to wait (for how long ?) then, my choices are Satellite or ISDN.
BTW, in Jakarta (and other cities in Jakarta, expecially in Bandung) they talk also about Internet connection using Wave LAN (Lucent Orinoco) but this has a limit in distance.
Maybe someone else can tell better story about situation in Perth ? (or in Australia in general ?)
thanks, to you all,
Kiki
