The problem you have is with your (and your friends) ISPs, not the Internet. Try a real Service provider. Mine is good enough to let Video get through. Bill-W4BSG
At 02:53 PM 9/14/2006 -0500, you wrote: > > I have a friend who lives 142 miles (as the crow flies) southeast of me. > > He can send me an E-Mail at say 10:00 local asking me to get on 40M for a > > QSO at 15:00. Sometimes I don't get the E-Mail until well after the Skd > > time...and sometimes not at all because his E-Mail service bounces his > > E-Mail back because it says it won't send E-Mail to my E-Mail server. > > > > I call this unreliable. > > > > However, we can QSO on 75/40M from dawn to dusk and into the night. I > > call that reliable. > > >My HF radio antenna is low and in the trees. I can't talk across the >country reliable on 75 M in the evening... Does that make HF broken? No >- my equipment is not configured properly. > >Same for Email - if it takes more then a few minutes for the Email message >to get from one station to another, then you're using the equivalent of a >dipole on the ground. The "system" is not tuned for optimal operation. >For casual use it's fine. For time critical use it's broken. It's the >pieces that need to be fixed - not the overall system. > >Bill - WA7NWP > > >Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org > >Other areas of interest: > >The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ >DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > Bill Aycock - W4BSG Woodville, Alabama Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
