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It's good, but it's not fantastic. My copper does lots more than that for the same price, and I don't have the latency built into an atmospheric transmission system. Listem, I'm not slagging you off, I have probably installed more dishes in Australia than most in the industry. And for people who dont live near a decent DSLAM the are a godsend, but at the moment, and for the foreseeable future, they are not better than copper or fibre.

You're joking right? Who in their right mind would purchase (I)t (S)till (D)oes (N)othing? It's slow, unreliable, old and expensive. Not so long ago Telstra hired me to fix a major f***-up with ISDN connections. I'm not going to tell you what that was, because non-dislosure was a major part of my contract. It's fixed, but it wasn't pretty.

Eh?

Pi.r^2 springs to mind...., however, you still need those hop towers, and they cost money.

Yes they do double, and the performance is not that great. It's not hard to figure. A transaction using PanAmSat-2 takes an up-down tx and an up-down rx with a latency of .785 ms per hop. Near 4 seconds doesn't sound like a lot, but depending on your application set-up it can add a huge delay compared to copper or fibre. You will find that almost EVERY Sat POP then planes into a copper or fibre net anyway.

That's not VoIP. That's chat with noise. Been doing it for years.

Indeed. But not with a 1 GB cap at 512 kbps.

I don't like "apparent" numbers. I like real ones published in yearly audits ;-)

Ha! I think Mr Gates is still doing OK.

Has the speed of light through atmosphere changed and no-one has told me? "None line of sight" is a ridiculous buttertion. How the hell are you going to do that? "Coloured Gravitons"?

Although "Spooky things at a distance" still interests me on an acedemic front. I will not be building a business empire on it just yet.

Of course, and why not. Above ground transmission seems to make some sense in a place that no longer has ground.

Telstra has no shortage of great technicians. They are a little short on management. The take from SMS is well over a billion, that could go directly into R&D and infrastructure improvements, but as it is a "half" privatized, nearly a company thingy, it uses that money to pay dividends.

Eh? NAT a hundred people through your BGP router and see the difference. Add IKE and some IPSec translations in a PIX and you'll want the biggest pipe you can afford.

Hetrodyning IP up powerlines has a world of merit. That's a technology that has been "sat on" for quite some time.

Nor am I. IT and communications are essential for the on-going business and social interests of Australia, not a be-and-end-all implementation of technology for its' own sake.

Do you have a point? Ten grand is minimum for the people who do not have access to a copper or fibre loop if they want "broadband".

Oh rubbish. Everyone is charging about the same for access. They have to as the compebreastion is tough. DoDo do a good deal on dial-up. Telstra have some problems, but over-all, it's the best deal in town for me. The accounts department needs a solid kick in the arse, but I heard the same from an iinet customer today (one of my peers at work). That is for the mums-n-dads type of accounts we all use at home. If you are a slightly bigger concern, I suggest you sort out SLAs using an ITIL formal contract.

Goodo. Where is "somewhere"?

It works. It is affordable. And it is fast. Shrug. Telstra in this instance have met my business requirements. I remember a 300 baud acoustic coupler running through a terminal emulator, so xDSL is pretty poo-hot IMO.

Perhaps.

Of course.

I've played with lots of things over the years. Some stay, some go. I remember 10 years ago, people telling me to give up UNIX because NT was the way of the future, safrican american.

Mark Addinall.