Comments on: Dealing with Dial-Up

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:29:28 +0000

Could you possibly run a physical wire set to your neighbor across the river (so you can power a dish) or maybe up the mountain (are there any towers on top of a nearby mountain that you have LoS to that are used for radio? could you lease space and put a 5.8 GHz ISM WAP up there along with some sort of sat link?)?
Or, going a different route, maybe you could use one of those pieces of fibre and a network switch at each end, with the far end in a place with broadband access. Leave the far end on and just turn the near end on when you’re running the generator/using it.

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By: globalstarsatellitephones

globalstarsatellitephones — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:07:49 +0000

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By: Niles

Niles — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:14:59 +0000

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By: Eber

Eber — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:22:36 +0000

Hello! Very good post…. here in Brazil people still use dial-up a lot… there already more that 30 million people using the net by (if i am not mistaken) only some 5% of this use broadband…..

The good point is that broadband here is kinda cheap… i pay some 30 dolars for a 500 kbps connection… its cable from the tv company…. and at my office i use a ADSL connection which is 35 dolars for the same 500 kbps…..

Thank God, i left dial-up in 2003, and would freak out if had to use it again….

Good Luck!!

Eber

By: Anthony John

Anthony John — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:04:06 +0000

Well, don’t forget to visit Wallace while you’re there.
And take a jacket…it gets cold early, since the mountains are so steep. The sun “goes down” in the middle of the afternoon.

Have fun!

By: Jackson West

Jackson West — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:55:19 +0000

Yeah, my family has looked into the satellite option. Only problem is that we’re in a valley at 1,500′ above sea level and the mountains in our satellite sightline to the south peak at about 8,000′ feet about sea level. My dad and I have sat down trying to figure out the geometry a million times, but our math always adds up to no satellite access (even the satellite phone would only stay locked on a bird for about ten to twenty minutes at a time).

We even thought about negotiating roof rights with a friend across the valley, on the other side of the river, to place the dish and then bounce a directional wifi signal down to our place, bit with no access to the electricity grid, we’d either have to coordinate our generators or invest in a prohibitively expensive battery setup powered by solar.

The people who set up the phone access told us they wired fiber (or at least conduits to support fiber) all the way up to town, but there are no consumer fiber providers in Washington State,and even DSL is impractical thanks to our distance from the switch. Sigh. Still, modem access and voice calls are better than nothing at all, any day!

By: Bear

Bear — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:58:38 +0000

I recommend Skweezer at http://www.skweezer.net . Go there, enter the URL of your choice and uncheck the box that says, “Show Images”, and hit “SKWEEZE”. Your selection pops up, all text is displayed and links are shown in standard blue. Save an unbelievable amount of time if you’re cursed with dial-up.

Also, if the browser on your phone sucks as badly as mine, I suggest going to the Opera browser site at http://www.opera.com and get Opera mini for your phone. They also offer Opera Mobile, but Opera Mini works fine and is free, whereas Opera Mobile is $29 bucks. More bells and whisles, but I don’t use it often enough to require the extra stuff. Your choice. Opera mini is great for checking info on some websites, or reading your best friend’s blog when you’re sans laptop.

OR…get a mobile satellite link/dish. I live wayyyyyy out in the country where the dial-up max speed is 14.4kbs and there is no such thing as DSL or cable. I have a satellite dish on my house and one on my motor home. When traveling, even in the boonies, I’m never without high speed broadband.

By: Jackson West

Jackson West — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:50:40 +0000

Wow, that rabbit proxy actually sounds really useful, I’ll definitely check it out.

By: Nakul Malik

Nakul Malik — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 12:12:34 +0000

well, you could telnet to a box that already has lynx installed.

you could use something like citrix to remotely access a box on a public ip.

you might have to learn to love textmode after all.

EXTREME CASE:

pool a couple of external modems together for a multilink connection.