Rural internet users

[Dooly]

I've had a gutsfull of dial up here at home.
I'm only 15 mins from town and our rural exchange wont allow broadband or something, same old shit whenever I ask......

Anyway, we've tried to get wireless and a couple of places say it wont work or be very dodgy for us due to the big forest of pines behind our house disrupting the signal blah blah blah......
Some dude came out with a meter on the roof and tested all kinds of shit.

There must be something we can do, what are some of you rural folk doing or using, which companies?

Someone told me the other day that if we have SKY, which we do, there is a place that takes the signal off the SKY satelite that should make broadband workable.
I forgot the name of the firm, but think he said it was based in Taupo? Seems weird.....

Any ideas, solutions?

Cheers.

[robertydog]

What about a very long cable?

[Jez]

have you tried looking into satellite internet?

expensive if you go it alone ... but the cost is reduced if your neighbours get in on it to i heard

[moT]

i just go down the road and nick someones wireles

[jrandom]

Get buy-in from the appropriate people and then band together and use directional antennas to build a line-of-sight wireless relay into town.

It's been done before by rural communities in various parts of the world. Can be a great solution. Investigate it with someone who knows their shit, you might be surprised at what can be done.

[geoffm]

My parents use Packing Shed wireless, since their phone lines are to poor even for dialup. Works well, don't know the cost.
Geoff

[scracha]

Orcon wireless. They use the Kordia network. AFAIK if you're not in a coverage area they'll do satellite but cos of the high install you wanna maybe look at Farmside.co.nz ...cheaper install but less data per month. Iconz sometimes do special deals. Probably worth phoning them all up and haggling :-)

http://www.orcon.net.nz/rural_broadband/

[Naki Rat]

Similar problem different region, but there's probably some relevant info here http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=47403

[Dooly]

What about a very long cable?

Never thought of that.
Where would I get one?
Can I plug it into your house?

[Dooly]

Orcon wireless. They use the Kordia network. AFAIK if you're not in a coverage area they'll do satellite but cos of the high install you wanna maybe look at Farmside.co.nz ...cheaper install but less data per month. Iconz sometimes do special deals. Probably worth phoning them all up and haggling :-)

http://www.orcon.net.nz/rural_broadband/

Looked at Farmside, they were the lot that came and did tests on our roof.
Had a google, but takes forever here to load those kind of pages, might look more at work tommorrow on BB.

[robertydog]

Na i watch to much porn and use up me quota every month

[Dooly]

Na i watch to much porn and use up me quota every month

Only cos you did'nt have a bike.
Prob solved now huh?

[CookMySock]

Get buy-in from the appropriate people and then band together and use directional antennas to build a line-of-sight wireless relay into town.

I can help with this if you need it.

DB

[Pixie]

Get buy-in from the appropriate people and then band together and use directional antennas to build a line-of-sight wireless relay into town.

It's been done before by rural communities in various parts of the world. Can be a great solution. Investigate it with someone who knows their shit, you might be surprised at what can be done.

Some communities in NZ have worked with the local school to get wireless.

[sinfull]

Feel for ya Dooly Was told for ages my lines wouldn't handle b/b, in the end i just told them to send a modem and whoa it worked ! prob find that telecom aint got the ports to add any new customers and they just fobbing ya off !

Now where was i, aww yeah pron, lots and lots o pron hehehe