[AusNOG] internet connection in a difficult location

[Joshua D'Alton]

Er, from Mikrotek or similar. http://www.wisp.net.au/  is an Aussie
supplier with a couple great guys running it, I'm sure they'll be able to
hook you up.

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au>wrote:

> If you were living with dialup speeds then I'd suggest you find a cheap
> crappy building somewhere close that DOES have DSL, grab DSL there, then
> run a point to point wireless solution from
>
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> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:09 PM, James Troy <James.Troy at intelematics.com>wrote:
>
>> I have just asked the question internally, if our dialup is delivered
>> over fibre who owns the fibre. However at a $500,000 install fee for our
>> usual ISP to deliver the connection the cost is unreasonable for what the
>> site has to deliver. ****
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>> James Troy****
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>> Intelematics Australia : connected mobility****
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>> 250 Swan Street, Richmond, VIC 3121****
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>> *From:* Jeffrey Sims [mailto:jeffy at tehintartubes.net]
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 5 March 2013 9:09 PM
>> *To:* James Troy
>> *Cc:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] internet connection in a difficult location****
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>> Correct me if I'm wrong here, but if you can't get fibre, why not go a
>> fibre based connection?****
>>
>>
>> Especially if there is no copper, up there they probably all use
>> microwave links because of the exact scenarios you provided.****
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>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:01 PM, James Troy <James.Troy at intelematics.com>
>> wrote:****
>>
>> Hi all,****
>>
>>                 I am hoping to draw on the expertise of this list, we
>> have a site that until today has been running on a dialup connection that
>> had a static IP address. This was working fine and was sufficient for our
>> needs however as of today our provider EOL the product we were on an to
>> change to another provider for dialup is quite frankly painful. The history
>> of the site (ATV-10 Tower Ornata Road MT DANDENONG) is that it suffers
>> from multiple lightning strikes a year and lightning rods don’t always take
>> the full hit. In fact the last major hit it had melted the copper MDF and
>> thus it was decided that the copper would not be replaced.****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> Until today our dialup line has been delivered over a fibre connection,
>> however I want to move away from this setup mainly because of how
>> unreliable dialup is becoming (try to buy a v.92 modem quickly these days)
>> ****
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>>  ****
>>
>> We had a cable connection priced up and the install alone was $500,000
>> and entirely unfeasible. Due to the lack of copper so is any DSL based
>> tech. the only options I can see is a 3G connection (signal strength wont
>> be an issue being next to the tower) however I was hoping for a fixed line
>> solution. Can anyone else think of another way of getting a reliable,
>> “always on” connection that will support us running a VPN over it?****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> FYI microwave and other wireless tech’s have also been looked at but the
>> install cost is once again unfeasible.****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> Perhaps if any providers already have a fibre connection to the site and
>> can deliver I would love to hear from you.****
>>
>>  ****
>>
>> James Troy****
>>
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>>
>> Intelematics Australia : connected mobility****
>>
>> Systems Administrator****
>>
>> 250 Swan Street, Richmond, VIC 3121****
>>
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>> Main:     +61 3 8415 9000****
>>
>> Fax:        +61 3 8415 9001 ****
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>> e: jtroy at intelematics.com.au ****
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