But satellite broadband is not a panacea .. I've been on all the
commercial services, and they work fine (mostly) for 'normal' users -
browsing, downloading stuff, etc. Forget about it if you do anything
involving upstream data, or encryption of any sort (including https).
Even downstream can suffer pretty horribly (depending on where you
live) at certain times of day when the load is near peak.
Thankfully I've moved back to civilization and have a cable connection
with 2 Mbit upstream and 10 down :)
de w1rt/john
On 7/26/07, Jozef Hand-Boniakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Satellite broadband is available most everywhere in the USA. Our
daughter lives in Glover VT which is about as rural and out of the way
as you can get. She is content with the broadband that she has. See:
http://www.4wildblue.com
Jozef WB2MIC
Kevin Rock wrote:
> Currently I have a 21.6 Kbps connection to the Internet. Sometimes it gets
as fast as 26.4 Kbps! The nearest broadband connection is 20 miles away. I have
no hope they will ever bring cable, fiber, or WiMAX to anywhere close enough to
effect my connection speed. A one megabyte attachment chokes my email system for
about fifteen minutes. Larger files? Hopefully I can maintain a connection
overnight or it is no use even trying. Luckily I do drive into Portland, Oregon
where they do have faster connections so I take a hard drive along and all the
URLs I've collected over the week so I can grab the files. No, broadband
connections are not available in all locations. The U.S. has a long way to go to
catch up with Japan, Korea, or Denmark.
> Kevin. KD5ONS
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
>> From: Lyle Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Jul 25, 2007 7:42 PM
>> To: Ken Kopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: 21st century assembly "manual"
>>
>>
>>> The reality is that many of us are confined to dial-up and always will
>>> be. (;-(
>>>
>> Say it isn't true! Can't you get BPL, the answer to everything, in your
>> area?
>>
>> Lyle KK7P
>>
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