Rural internet users

[Dooly]

Just rung Orcon via their rural Bb thingy.

They did a check via satellite or whatever they do, said we can't get wireless and the only option is satellite @ about $2500 just to set up, plus the monthly bill.
Googling also shows similar satellite prices from other firms too.

[moT]

if you want to simply wach free porn link up your sky dish to your tv tuner card on ur comp and download the decoder program you get all movie and pay channels for free!! aswell as playboy and spice

[Big Dave]

Move somewhere with running electrons ya banjo pickin' yokel.

[Dooly]

Move somewhere with running electrons ya banjo pickin' yokel.

I'm only 15 mins from Hastings on the main race track for bikers, you'd think...how fuckin hard is it to get broadband!
Every bastard I've rung in the last day or so has said we can't get it, tests dont work and satellite is the only option at about 2500k.

Gonna ring the outfit that installed the neighbour's dish who are in a straight line about 400 metres away on another hill and see if they can hook or get a feed off them or something, fucked if I know.

[Big Dave]

commiserations.
I do my own programming on you tube rather than watch TV these days.

[Dooly]

commiserations.
I do my own programming on you tube rather than watch TV these days.

Would be good to watch youtube stuff at home without a 3 day wait for a 1 minute clip.

You post prompted me to ring the outfit we ahd out to see if we can explore other options, so the chick looked up their records and it said the signal is completely blocked by trees, so they're gonna send some techo out to see if there is anywhere else we can get a signal.
She said it will cost...........I said, life costs, what's new.......

[Cajun]

Would be good to watch youtube stuff at home without a 3 day wait for a 1 minute clip.

You post prompted me to ring the outfit we ahd out to see if we can explore other options, so the chick looked up their records and it said the signal is completely blocked by trees, so they're gonna send some techo out to see if there is anywhere else we can get a signal.
She said it will cost...........I said, life costs, what's new.......

yeah some petrol for a chainsaw for some tress not to block any more?

[Al]

Wot Cajun said, chainsaw will solve the problem!

I live rural here too and our phone line is a radio phone, connected to a tower about 1km from farm. Apparently not suitable for data transfer.

The gubmint here in Oz helps pay for a sattelite connection.... waiting for the jokers to arrive and set up now!

Good luck!

[Dooly]

The trees are'nt mine.
They are just over the fenceline on a farmer's land and about 50 acres of pines.
Might be a bit of a mission sneaking and cutting them.

[CookMySock]

The trees are'nt mine.
They are just over the fenceline on a farmer's land and about 50 acres of pines.
Might be a bit of a mission sneaking and cutting them.

there are plenty of other ways. You have had a couple of good offers from technical people.

DB

[Lias]

I'm only 15 mins from Hastings on the main race track for bikers, you'd think...how fuckin hard is it to get broadband!
Every bastard I've rung in the last day or so has said we can't get it, tests dont work and satellite is the only option at about 2500k.

Gonna ring the outfit that installed the neighbour's dish who are in a straight line about 400 metres away on another hill and see if they can hook or get a feed off them or something, fucked if I know.

If you have LOS to your neighbours place, and can come to an arrangement with them you should be able to setup wireless between your place and his and share the satellite for less than 2500.

[Dooly]

there are plenty of other ways. You have had a couple of good offers from technical people.

DB

Tbh I really don't understand what some have said, some of the techo stuff.
More of a case of never being into it.
Just turn pooter on and use.

Oh, and I do appreciate what you've all said, taking it in, but some over my head.
Hey I'm a mechanic, not a pooter guy.

[Dooly]

If you have LOS to your neighbours place, and can come to an arrangement with them you should be able to setup wireless between your place and his and share the satellite for less than 2500.

Asked their provider about that this arvo, they went on and on and made me sleepy with what they were saying about not knowing who is using what amount of pooter space(?) and it being diffulcult to charge corectly blah blah blah...........

[NZsarge]

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 !

Yeah Telecom are good at that, they tryed to tell me I could'nt get BB but I friggin' knew I could coz the the neighbour one house further up the line had it.
It's no where near the speed you'd get in town but it's so much faster than dial-up it's not even funny!

[Warr]

Asked their provider about that this arvo, they went on and on and made me sleepy with what they were saying about not knowing who is using what amount of pooter space(?) and it being diffulcult to charge corectly blah blah blah...........

If your neighbors are approachable to the idea I 'could' just be matter of sharing their data usage... perhaps. & you pay the setup costs on the link from his house to yours