From: | Alan Buxey |
Date: | 20 Jun 2001 at 17:46:01 |
Subject: | Re: What's going on? |
hi,
> That takes the p*ss in comparison to BT's prices.
thats what i though when i saw the advert posters :-|
> I'm super-p*ssed at the moment anyway. I'm 3.75km away from my local
> exchange, and the ADSL "limit" is 3.5km.
...have you looked at DVB at all?
Of course, you'd have to use a PC to run DVB right now.....as only PCI
cards have DVB - and theres no Amiga drivers for it right now.
info:
DVB is a system where computer data is sent through a satellite link, at
the receiving end you have a nice PCI card which can decode the satellite
signal into video/sound and computer data. Hauppage make a nice DVB card.
anyway, the TV stuff goes to your TV as normal - eg SKY - the compuer
stuff then goes into your computer. This is your downstream and can
operate at speeds of around 33Mb/s (from memory) , all upstream is then
done through a 56k modem (or ISDN etc) - to your NORMAL ISP (eg
freeserve).
so you pay the DVB supplier a monthly subscription and your normal ISP
(who becomes your upload link).
the upside? well, the downstream connection is very fast...and only costs
20 euro a month!!! AND you can receive emails whilst you are 'offline' as
the satellite downstream is ALWAYS on 8-)
the downside? receiving is great....but sending is still slow.
I dont know why more people dont know about this....anyway, here are some
links so you can learn:
http://www.hauppauge.com/html/dvb_s.htm (info on the DVB card)
http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/html/DVBs4.htm (info on DVB-s)
http://www.europeonline.net/ (europe online - they do the DVB)
alan
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