On Thursday 13 January 2005 10:26 pm, Aidan Holmes wrote: > Stephen Kühn wrote: > > No wireless providers for your bush area? Satellite? Might be worth > > lookin into...I have a mate in Parkes that had to end up getting > > ISDN...which ain't great, but it works... > > I suppose what I really mean is I'm too cheap to use the broadband that > is available. ISDN is available as I live within the town, it is > competitively priced IF you already rent a second line for the internet. > But we only use one phone line so ISDN would approximately double our > phone/internet costs (the wife would kill me). Satellite is available > (I'm the computer dude at RetraVision and we have it here at work) but > the setup and ongoing costs are more than I can justify as a home user. > So I've resigned myself to doing my big downloads at work and using > email and simple browsing at home.....maybe I should run some cat5 from > work to home - they're only 700m apart :) or.. a souped up wireless with good antennas at both ends :-D
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