bye bye dialup

[Robbo]

well after putting up with dialup for so long its now time to say farewell... Due to no adsl in my area I was forced to put up with dialup

 

But tommorow some technicians are coming to install highspeed satellite internet :lol: :lol:

 

 

[Guest Darren Masters]

Robbo, you will never look back :D

 

 

[Robbo]

Now i can disconnect the home phone :twisted:

 

One less bill =D>

 

 

[Guest Chainsaw]

I hope its an IPSTAR one.

 

Get ready for the latency though.

 

 

[Robbo]

:shock: Yes it is ipstar :shock:

 

Latency? :?: #-o

 

Has anyone done anything with voip, now that I am disconnecting my home phone gonner look into voip

 

 

[Guest Chainsaw]

Who are you going with?

 

 

[Robbo]

Chainy check your pm [-o<

 

 

[Guest Darren Masters]

I have mynetfone for my home phone. It is VOIP and I am mostly happy with it. Billing is a little confusing until you get used to it and sometimes when you are browsing while chatting on the phone it loses packets.

 

 

[Robbo]

just seen that and they have wireless routers for $10 but i have heard it doesent work with satellite

 

 

[Guest Darren Masters]

I can't see why they would not work with satellite?

 

 

[Robbo]

Does standard VoIP work over 2-way satellite? The satellite service does not provide support for external VoIP providers such as Engin, Skype, myNetPhone etc, which have not been optimised for the IPSTAR satellite environment.

[Guest Darren Masters]

Mynetfone works. Chainy is using it.

 

 

[Robbo]

hmmmmmmmm

 

chainy ????

 

 

[Guest OzChris]

Great news Robbo!! =D> =D>

 

You wont know yourself - dial up is sooooooo sloooooooowwwwwww #-o

 

 

[Robbo]

im always away on work and staying in hotels and using there cable and its bloody fast!!

 

but when i come back home im on dialup (home couple days a week) so the rent im paying on the home phone $30 a month well its easy to get satellite as thats all it costs a month so im saving over $25 a month !

 

 

[Robbo]

Hello all.......

 

I am considering skype because I move around a lot with work and I can use it in the hotels as well and can pickup a USB phone for $20

 

FOR $5.95 A MONTH YOU GET THE FOLLOWING

 

Unlimited calls to Australia landlines For Free

 

A Inbound Phone Number So People Can Call You From Normal Phones On Skype

 

Voicemail

 

Caller ID

 

Call Divert

 

and cheap overseas rates :)

 

YOU CAN ALSO HAVE UNLIMITED WORLD CALLS WITH 3 PHONE NUMBERS FOR $15 A MONTH :|

 

Details at https://secure.skype.com/store/packages/begin

 

 

[Robbo]

.........

 

 

[Robbo]

OMG THIS IS FAST

 

 

[Guest Chainsaw]

same as mine. Yes, it's faster than dial-up, but not a patch on ADSL-2 of course.

 

What speed did you go with Robbo?

 

 

[Guest Darren Masters]

And nowhere near as fast as my steamin' cable :lol: But...better than dialup Robbo :D

 

 

[Guest g_i_jack029]

how fast is yours daz?

 

 

[Guest Darren Masters]

how fast is yours daz?

I usually do broadband speed tests here:

 

http://www.zdnet.com.au/broadband/speedtest.htm

 

And usually get download of 20Mbps. I'm happy with that :D :D

 

It is not always consistent and sometimes suffers some fade. Neighbours can be on the same box and therefore the speed suffers. There are boxes (you can see them above the powerlines) at set intervals and when others are sharing it with you it can slow. That, and general network traffic but all in all it works quite well. It's lightening tonight. How are you going with the satellite Robbo?

 

 

[Robbo]

2mbps

 

 

[Robbo]

how fast is yours daz?

I usually do broadband speed tests here:

 

http://www.zdnet.com.au/broadband/speedtest.htm

 

And usually get download of 20Mbps. I'm happy with that :D :D

 

It is not always consistent and sometimes suffers some fade. Neighbours can be on the same box and therefore the speed suffers. There are boxes (you can see them above the powerlines) at set intervals and when others are sharing it with you it can slow. That, and general network traffic but all in all it works quite well. It's lightening tonight. How are you going with the satellite Robbo?[/quote:2kenodkj]

 

Hi Daz...

 

Sat is going good mate, they have given me the first month free :) I did your speed test and got this, It was raining heavy when this was done so you can expect a bit better speed in good weather.

 

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[Guest Darren Masters]

Good stuff Robbo. You will get a little slower when there is cloud/heavy rain about. You are still 20-and-a-bit times faster than the fastest of dial-up don't forget. I thought I would post a screen shot of mine tonight just to make you jealous Lots of traffic on being a Friday night so a little slower than usual.