From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jan 10 23:15:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from transbay.net (dns1.transbay.net [209.133.53.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C473414DB5 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 23:15:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ecsd@transbay.net) Received: from transbay.net (rigel.transbay.net [209.133.53.177]) by transbay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA00324; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 23:14:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <387ADA64.A0F2FEDA@transbay.net> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 23:23:16 -0800 From: "UC Telecom + Transbay.Net" Organization: TransBay.Net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Uzzell Cc: Bill Fumerola , paul@premier-networks.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [paul@premier-networks.com: Wireless T1] References: <002501bf5bd1$49464e20$e1982acb@1stpenshurstscouts.asn.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Uzzell wrote: Bill Fumerola wrote: > While we are on the subject. Has any one got any ideas on an Uplink provider > in Sydney Australia that will do the same idea. I have looked and looked but > can not find one maybe there is someone on the list or maybe you guys know > of someone. Thanks Sorry, mate, I have no idea. You could ask the disproportionately large Australian contingent of FreeBSDers - Julian Elischer and Mike Smith being the names I recall immediately (sorry to the others I've actually met.) My understanding is that telstra is The australian phone company / ISP; anyone else doing anything else ends up using them upstream somewhere, I gather. But there are no doubt littler ISPs all around, brave enough to check out the wireless. Wireless's primary problem is that it isn't long-haul without being pricy and powerful - at the power levels in COTS products the range is max approx 25km without amplification. Certainly works at the periphery of cities though. I was in Sydney in 1964; probably a few things have changed since then. If nobody you can find there is doing wireless, why not you? (See 'telstra' above.) I forget the terrain, I recall it's largely flat, but I was on foot and 8 years old, so what do I know. New Zeeeland was fun, too. If you set up shop there and need advice, ring us up. We /will/ accept Kangaroos in trade, barring USDA regulations. - to be discussed. -- -sysad@transbay.net (Transbay Sysad) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message