[Elecraft] 21st century connectivity

[John D'Ausilio]

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 <jozef at metaphoria.org> 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 <kk7p at wavecable.com>
> >> Sent: Jul 25, 2007 7:42 PM
> >> To: Ken Kopp <k0pp at acninc.net>
> >> Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> >> 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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