Satelite Query ?

[Philip Trouchet]

Advice please, > Living in a rural area I have taken plunge & gone 
Satellite both ways with BorderNet under old HIBIS scheme. As a Telstra 
customer because I was on ISDN modem which was only faster ADSL 
available at the time on old pre war copper where if line went down it 
was probably because a cow somewhere had nibbled the cable. Because I 
had ISDN Telstra could not give me Satellite under subsidy as Telstra 
policy! No wonder big whale Telstra is being devoured by all the rabid 
small shark companies out there. I've been offered , Wireless, Other 
broadband ,Optus etc. virtually every 2nd week.
 result > Brilliant !!.  2 hours to install dish, Immediate connection. 
No internet connect just open a browser > Safari. Firefox whatever. 
Connection speeds kbps 237.32 KB/s 29.67 what ever that means but a damn 
sight faster than before. I save monthly Telstra cost of separate line 
rental & in theory on line all the time where on ISDN if not used for 15 
minutes or so automatic drop out. By time dust settles anticipate my 
extra cost pcm @ about $10.00. Thank you city slickers for my rural 
subsidy. Question > Do most of you leave your computer & connection on 
all the time. I used to close down each night. Now do I just close 
Browser for Security & leave computer on or just leave it on. I have 
Limelight & Aquisition fairly often downloading  & building up a nice 
music library of my generation music. Jazz, Fats Waller, Bessie Smith & 
general 40,50,& 60's. All long out of copy right?. Habit & instinct say 
close down each night > less wear or with Sleep does it matter? With the 
close down I run a weekly complete Diagnostics & Permissions check. 
Please what's the general cosensus. Tia & Ciao > p.   PS my Monthly 
download has been 1 to 1& 1/2 Gb which is about my allowance of 1.5 
before speed drops.