Hi Vicki,
Could you utilise a download manager? It would require moving to a larger
access plan - perhaps an unlimited access/downloads each month - but that is
an option.
As I understand it, Satellite is not very practical for upload speed anyway.
Whilst the downstream communications come via Satellite, all uploads must
utilise dial-up speeds and be sent by normal modem.
If Telstra (our national Telecom that is partly privatised and about to be
fully privatised for those outside Australia) and the government stop
playing tit-for-tat there might be some light at the end of the tunnel. And
if they don't, I believe there is now a proposal for a 4G wireless network,
across our wide brown land, by 3 of the smaller players (Unwired, Soul and
someone else). They have applied for a grant under the rural services fund.
At last check, the Japanese trials of 4G were getting 100Mb/s mobile and
1Gb/s stationary speeds.
Simon.
On 16/8/06 8:58 AM, "vicki powys" <> wrote:
> Where I live in rural Australia, my only option for broadband is via
> satellite dish which means installation costs plus 50 dollars a month just
> to use it - way too expensive for me, even tho I understand there is now a
> subsidy available to help with the cost of the dish. So it is back to 28
> kbps very slow dialup for me. I have 10 hours access per month for $11.
> I'd love to hear all the sounds that naturerecordists group have available,
> but sadly I cannot. Hopefully our technology will improve in the coming
> years.
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> Vicki Powys
> Australia
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>> Very true - the distance issue is an interesting one. I hope that our
>> broadband situation will improve across the board and not just in major
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>> Simon.
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>> On 8/8/06 6:10 PM, "Graham Evans" <> wrote:
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>>>> I have to agree - broadband is quite common in Australia and also quite
>>>> affordable..
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>>> living in a rural part of Australia I just have to add...
>>> Yes and ...No in my case.
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>>> No broadband options even close to affordable here. And I'm looking
>>> hard as I run a web-design business. Come on Telstra.
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>>> Graham E.
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> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
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