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In article <roWdnaF5XJupylTXnZ2dnUVZ_q6dnZ2d@netspace.net.au>, -
=Spudley=-@home.com said...
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:Yo! Jeßus!
:
:From all accounts in reading your posts you seem to be enjoying the bush 
:life of Tasmania.

I certainly am :) I spent roughly 12 years living on the eastern 
seaboard, but was never really happy there. Tried it, didn't work for 
me.

:The use of a faster Internet would probably be an advantage but not a 
:necessity except for when you need to do updates and find device drivers 
:quickly.

I can live with slow speeds and minimal quota - it's all the other 
never-ending oddball problems that come and go. 

Like right now, I have about an hour before I'll be forced to stop using 
this satellite broadband, because all of my email accounts (bar the ISP 
suppled one) will become unaccessible, as will any Usenet server. 

Ditto with some (but not all web sites). And the affected sites change 
on daily basis (!) It'll become usable again sometime late tonight - not 
sure when exactly, because I'm usually in bed by 9PM these days :)

The problems are manifold, and nothing at all like the problems that may 
crop up on ADSL. Some of them are outright weird.

Its absolutely futile trying to get it sorted with my ISP. 

The real problem is I can't simply switch to another provider, due to 
the huge hardware/installation costs. I haven't gone to the TIO and 
elsewhere as yet, I just want to ensure that I've allowed enough time 
(and then some) for my ISP to respond and/or correct the problems.

:I envy your nearly self sufficient life style, as the closest I can get is a 
:small vege patch plus a solar hot water system and I'm still waiting on the 
:Government to cough up the rebate before my Solar Electricity company will 
:install it here, which is taking forever.

I only just got back my solar hot water rebate - took about 9 weeks.
I do enjoy living the way I do now, I find it immensely satisfying and 
feel like I'm much more in control of my own life.

:I must say though that I couldn't really live comfortably without fast 
:Broadband, domestic Satellite internet wouldn't count in my book to be truly 
:called 'broadband'.
:Hopefully the NBN will one day eventually extend to your part of the country 
:and remove the strangle hold of dial-up once and for all.

Indeed :) My g/f lives in Launceston, she has ADSL2 and it never ceases 
to blow me away just how much easier it is to get things done on it.
I can log into my banking within a few seconds on it, instead of the six 
minutes (at best) on this sat connection - I shit you not, six minutes!
That's assuming I can connect to the site at all...

Catch ya.