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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:25:56 +0930
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Admin - OzWide Internet Cc: Klaus Boehme, aussie-isp Message-Id: <20050419025556.GC82272@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <001501c53fee$3aa782b0$0264a8c0@spider> References: <kadybee%40iig.com.au$203.31.111.227$.425cae74.71c4a.4a24.0@auspx1.nitroglobal.com> <001501c53fee$3aa782b0$0264a8c0@spider> Subject: Re: [Oz-ISP] PAS8 Satellite bandwidth |
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--2mUf73N0HmzM2Naa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 13 April 2005 at 16:01:26 +1000, Admin - OzWide Internet wrote: > >> It interests me that you suggest they are 'turning it off' at the >> end of the month. They haven't actually said that to me. Same here. I've received a couple of messages with very little detail, but this is the first I've seen that mentions turning off the service, let alone when. > <quote> > As such Bordernet has decided to terminate the Pan Am Sat Pas 8 broadcast on > the 31st March 2005 > </quote> > > (since that email it was pushed back till the end of this month, i > think a few jumped up and down) Marvellous. So as a former iHug wholesale customer, I find this out with all of 11 days to go? > i have well over the 25+ clients > the cost of sending someone out to re-align a dish to optarse's B1(clients > all over AU) approx $100 ? some more,some less > plus a license for each (approx $55 each) purchased from boardernet > works out to around $150 a client. > > which is the reason im not so happy about it. > > we need sat access for alot of our clients, im not giving them up (i'd put > them on a free multippp before i do that) > > the disadvantage of pas8 is the hibis incentive wont happen with it, packets > float into cyberspace never to be seen again > and the latency is well above what hibis will allow. > > so i might have to bite the bullet and buy their iSat wholesale > preliminary tests on my end show it to be quite good. Considering that it seems I'm not the only one who's been kept in the dark, can you give more details? Greg -- Finger g r o g @ l e m i s . c o m for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --2mUf73N0HmzM2Naa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCZHM8IubykFB6QiMRAo/RAKCuX0SfnFfmOCCe1bwRlLZMd9Y/3QCgoH+w uOz0Pywt/joXwdD/GDIkkO4= =ecdx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2mUf73N0HmzM2Naa-- ---- email "unsubscribe aussie-isp" to m a j o r d o m o @ a u s s i e . n e t to be removed. |
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