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Kevin Rock

21st century connectivity

Currently I have a 21.6 Kbps connection to the Internet. Sometimes it gets as fast as 26.4 Kbps! The nearest broadband connection is 20 miles away. I have no hope they will ever bring cable, fiber, or WiMAX to anywhere close enough to effect my connection speed. A one megabyte attachment chokes my email system for about fifteen minutes. Larger files? Hopefully I can maintain a connection overnight or it is no use even trying. Luckily I do drive into Portland, Oregon where they do have faster connections so I take a hard drive along and all the URLs I've collected over the week so I can grab the files. No, broadband connections are not available in all locations. The U.S. has a long way to go to catch up with Japan, Korea, or Denmark.
Kevin. KD5ONS

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>From: Lyle Johnson <[hidden email]>
>Sent: Jul 25, 2007 7:42 PM
>To: Ken Kopp <[hidden email]>
>Cc: [hidden email]
>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: 21st century assembly "manual"
>
>> The reality is that many of us are confined to dial-up and always will
>> be. (;-(
>
>Say it isn't true! Can't you get BPL, the answer to everything, in your
>area?
>
>Lyle KK7P
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Julian, G4ILO

Re: 21st century connectivity

On 7/26/07, Kevin Rock <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Currently I have a 21.6 Kbps connection to the Internet. Sometimes it gets as fast as 26.4 Kbps! ... The U.S. has a long way to go to catch up with Japan, Korea, or Denmark.

Hey, we're hams. What about radio? Perhaps the updates could be
distributed over the packet network?

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Jozef Hand-Boniakowski

Re: 21st century connectivity

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Satellite broadband is available most everywhere in the USA. Our
daughter lives in Glover VT which is about as rural and out of the way
as you can get. She is content with the broadband that she has. See:
http://www.4wildblue.com

Jozef WB2MIC

Kevin Rock wrote:

> Currently I have a 21.6 Kbps connection to the Internet. Sometimes it gets as fast as 26.4 Kbps! The nearest broadband connection is 20 miles away. I have no hope they will ever bring cable, fiber, or WiMAX to anywhere close enough to effect my connection speed. A one megabyte attachment chokes my email system for about fifteen minutes. Larger files? Hopefully I can maintain a connection overnight or it is no use even trying. Luckily I do drive into Portland, Oregon where they do have faster connections so I take a hard drive along and all the URLs I've collected over the week so I can grab the files. No, broadband connections are not available in all locations. The U.S. has a long way to go to catch up with Japan, Korea, or Denmark.
> Kevin. KD5ONS
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
>> From: Lyle Johnson <[hidden email]>
>> Sent: Jul 25, 2007 7:42 PM
>> To: Ken Kopp <[hidden email]>
>> Cc: [hidden email]
>> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: 21st century assembly "manual"
>>
>>
>>> The reality is that many of us are confined to dial-up and always will
>>> be. (;-(
>>>
>> Say it isn't true! Can't you get BPL, the answer to everything, in your
>> area?
>>
>> Lyle KK7P
>>
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zeke7237

Re: 21st century connectivity

But satellite broadband is not a panacea .. I've been on all the
commercial services, and they work fine (mostly) for 'normal' users -
browsing, downloading stuff, etc. Forget about it if you do anything
involving upstream data, or encryption of any sort (including https).
Even downstream can suffer pretty horribly (depending on where you
live) at certain times of day when the load is near peak.

Thankfully I've moved back to civilization and have a cable connection
with 2 Mbit upstream and 10 down :)

de w1rt/john

On 7/26/07, Jozef Hand-Boniakowski <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Satellite broadband is available most everywhere in the USA. Our
> daughter lives in Glover VT which is about as rural and out of the way
> as you can get. She is content with the broadband that she has. See:
> http://www.4wildblue.com
>
> Jozef WB2MIC
>
> Kevin Rock wrote:
> > Currently I have a 21.6 Kbps connection to the Internet. Sometimes it gets as fast as 26.4 Kbps! The nearest broadband connection is 20 miles away. I have no hope they will ever bring cable, fiber, or WiMAX to anywhere close enough to effect my connection speed. A one megabyte attachment chokes my email system for about fifteen minutes. Larger files? Hopefully I can maintain a connection overnight or it is no use even trying. Luckily I do drive into Portland, Oregon where they do have faster connections so I take a hard drive along and all the URLs I've collected over the week so I can grab the files. No, broadband connections are not available in all locations. The U.S. has a long way to go to catch up with Japan, Korea, or Denmark.
> > Kevin. KD5ONS
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> >> From: Lyle Johnson <[hidden email]>
> >> Sent: Jul 25, 2007 7:42 PM
> >> To: Ken Kopp <[hidden email]>
> >> Cc: [hidden email]
> >> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: 21st century assembly "manual"
> >>
> >>
> >>> The reality is that many of us are confined to dial-up and always will
> >>> be. (;-(
> >>>
> >> Say it isn't true! Can't you get BPL, the answer to everything, in your
> >> area?
> >>
> >> Lyle KK7P
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Julian, G4ILO

Re: 21st century connectivity

On 7/26/07, John D'Ausilio <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Thankfully I've moved back to civilization and have a cable connection
> with 2 Mbit upstream and 10 down :)

I'd love to live in a rural area - enough space to put up outside
antennas, far enough from neighbours and all their
interference-creating appliances. What bliss! I'd willingly put up
with an unreliable internet connection for that.

But my XYL wants to live within walking distance of town, so that's that!
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AJSOENKE

Re: 21st century connectivity

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Satellite internet can be expensive for individuals, but for small
communities why not get together and provide a single link with a well planned
wireless network. Our club ( www.sbarc.org ) has a wireless site set up on an
offshore island, 26 miles away, that it is linked to one of our land sites so the
total path is over 30 miles. It's 802.11 running a directional antenna and
legal power . We also can link it to our mobile van for working disaster
communications up the coastal canyons. So for a community that is essential few sq
mi or so and at least 50 users to pay for the initial site and monthly fees
it could work out.

ALK WA6VNN

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