- Community needs satellite service with more than one base station
- Posted by John Owens on July 21st, 2003
Hi
We are a village in the UK with lots of hills and valleys and no land-line
broadband.
www.rural-WEB.org
We have a project which includes :
the provision of a satellite internet feed to a mobile unit for outreach
services.
the provision of satellite internet feed to 1, 2 or 3 fixed points within
the village which will then be shared wirelessly in clusters of households.
We are now looking for suppliers. Ideally we (rural-web) want to buy a pool
of bandwidth which is shared among the base stations. In particular the
mobile base station may only be used 50 or 60 times a year so we don't want
to have to pay for 'always on ' capacity for it and it alone, that will
rarely be used.
Ideas and pointers gratefully received.
Thank you
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John Owens
Tel 44 1509 890302
Fax 44 1509 89 08 22
www.GoodViews.co.uk
- Posted by John Owens on July 21st, 2003
"John Owens" <NOTJ.O.Skillsapplied@NOTbtinternet.com> wrote in message
news:bfgcsl$9b2$1@hercules.btinternet.com...
P.s. We are talking to some people and have seen the long lists of
potential satellite operators. My posting was not meant to seem like the
height of laziness - mainly a reflection of the fact that we need something
a little bit different and not every company has the mental flexibility to
cope !
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John Owens
Fax 44 1509 89 08 22
www.GoodViews.co.uk
- Posted by The Natural Philosopher on July 22nd, 2003
John Owens wrote:
I think if its a group project yopu would be beter served by sharing a
2Mbps service via WiFi technology.
Contact these guys www.ukbroadband.net if this may be of interest as a
solution.
- Posted by John Owens on July 22nd, 2003
Thanks I have contacted them. Let me be clear we are already planning on
using wifi to share within the village. We are committed to at least one
satellite feed for the mobile 'outreach' service and will use satellite for
other clusters which eventually become linked.
I still need help in finding the satellite suppliers.
Cheers
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John Owens
Fax 44 1509 89 08 22
www.GoodViews.co.uk
- Posted by Clueless on July 22nd, 2003
John Owens wrote:
I dont understand, why a satellite outreach service at all ?
Why is it not feasible to install SDSL networking between your main site and
any satellite locations so that you reuse existing BT telephone wiring with
an EPS 8 or 9 circuit and get a permanent connection ? This would require a
leased line as you plan to the main site, all the satellite sites to be
within the same exchange & within a radius of 6 miles from the exchange, so
my understanding is that you could use this to extend the reach
dramatically.
Or consider the community LAN service that BT promote which requires
adoption by an ISP & sponsorship by a development agency ?
That way you are not limited to the 2 MB backhaul. Then use combinations of
WiFi and SDSL to extend reach.
S. Althaf
- Posted by Clueless on July 26th, 2003
John Owens wrote:
http://www.adslguide.org.uk/newsarchive.asp?item=1059
S. Althaf
- Posted by John Owens on July 26th, 2003
"Clueless" <clueless_medic@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1059201093.21419.0@demeter.uk.clara.net...
Yes I had registered our interest for exchange activate. It could be (or
have been ) part of the solution. But I still need satellite for the mobile
(or more correctly transportable) service.
Cheers
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John Owens
Fax 44 1509 89 08 22
www.GoodViews.co.uk
