<div dir="ltr">I had the same problem as your Australian friend when I got my Enable fibre connection installed. The wifi became the bottleneck on my 100/50 internet connection, which led me to data cable the house. Things are looking up for broadband in NZ.<div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Mark Beckett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m.beckett@amuri.net" target="_blank">m.beckett@amuri.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Yep that right, but he has another thats lower at Halswell (about 300m)<br>
My Gridpack is on a pole on the roof to clear the 4m hedge, and we can get 3.5 - 4Mb/sec.<br>
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I think you'll find that the satellite uplink is probably 128Kb, and the down is 256/512kb.<br>
The problem is that its limited to a total of 4GB/week.<br>
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Adding a second modem is not going to help with the total limit.<br>
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Unlike us in NZ who have poor broadband, my Australia friend complains when he has to plug his computer in the get faster than his 54MB WiFi ...<br>
I imagine our American friends are probably similar, and used to fast almost unlimited internet.<br>
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Mark<br>
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Helmut Walle wrote:<br>
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If "Gondola" is the restaurant on Mt Cavendish, then that's equivalent to a 400 m mast...<br>
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On 10/05/14 21:25, Mark Beckett wrote:<br>
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My wifi is 32km link to the Gondala, and uses a gridpack antenna and licenced 600mW AP unit.<br>
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Even with good antennas at both ends, I doubt you could extend it to 110km.<br>
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Problem with most of these is that its "line of sight", so unless you can put something in-between you're stuck.<br>
Might be easier to move the Mainland, or use carrier pidgeons to transport the SD cards.<br>
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Mark<br>
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Richard Jones wrote:<br>
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Tait Radio Communications spun off a company called MimoMax that<br>
specialises in data links: <a href="http://mimomax.com/" target="_blank">http://mimomax.com/</a> This kit is completely<br>
licensable and uses diversity to achieve almost unbelievable bandwidth<br>
over a narrow band. This kit probably does not achieve 110km, but you<br>
could ask them.<br>
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The best I've managed with Wifi type technology requiring no license<br>
is about 4km.<br>
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I suspect when you discover cheap broadband link that does 110km you<br>
will be able to give up your day job :-)<br>
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Best of luck with the visit.<br>
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Richard<br>
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On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Jasper Mackenzie<br>
<<a href="mailto:jasper.mackenzie@gmail.com" target="_blank">jasper.mackenzie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Good day fellow ROboticisers,<br>
I have the privilage of flying off to visit my gf's family in Alaska (you<br>
know, the cringing Meet The Family awkward silences...), and her Dad runs a<br>
lodge for people to show off their enormous lenses and fancy new gigapixel<br>
cameras and glut out on Bears and stuff etc.<br>
<br>
Anyway, he has bandwidth issues, all these fancy photographers want to<br>
upload photos etc etc and he has one sattelite link limited to 4gb per week.<br>
So I was thinking that maybe they could do a VHF (or similar) link to the<br>
mainland which is 110km away across the sea. I have found a russian company<br>
that had an interesting solution, but all seemed to need towers ~90m tall<br>
which would be a massive hazard as small planes are what these outlanders<br>
use to get around.<br>
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Is there a solution? A data link with usable bandwidth for image uploading,<br>
VoIP etc. that could work over 110km without a huge tower, that I could get<br>
before june 1st? (Lets deal with licensing later 8)<br>
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Cheers<br>
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Jasper<br>
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