From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Sep 28 06:24:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA08194 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 06:24:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from magicnet.magicnet.net (magicnet.magicnet.net [204.96.116.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA08182 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 06:24:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@bilver.magicnet.net) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by magicnet.magicnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.8) with UUCP id JAA26830 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 09:22:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.magicnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA02784 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 09:11:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Vermillion Message-Id: <199809281311.JAA02784@bilver.magicnet.net> Subject: Re: backbone connections in Australia In-Reply-To: from Andrew McNaughton at "Sep 28, 98 06:04:17 pm" To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 09:11:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrew McNaughton recently said: > On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Chris Foote wrote: > > Probably your best bet is a satellite connection with your own dish > > at Wagga Wagga (big links to Sydney would cost big bucks from where > > you are located). > > We have a 4Mbit satellite link, quite affordable at just over 1 million > > per year; see: > > Panamsat: http://www.panamsat.com/ > > AAP Sat Tel: +61 02 9692 1089 .... > 1 million dollars? > Ihug offers sattelite dishes to home users in new zealand with a similar > arrangement re phonel ine for outgoing data. ... I'm working for some people who had a request to service a company in the islands East of Florida. Panamsat was high. The talked to another got a better price. Went back to PanAmSat and found the price could be lowered. The real problem/cost in that link - which was never put in place - were the ridiculously high charges put in place by the state-owned telephone company for interconnection, etc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message