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Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)
From: gordon b slater <gordslater () ieee org>
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:53:38 +0000
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 19:20 -0500, Daniel Senie wrote:
Hopefully someone will bother to cover the rural areas with cell service eventually.
I'm finding a fair number (about 40%+) of the tech-savvy "must-have-for-business-emails" users here in very rural UK out of reach of RA-ADSL) are using/have used Lynx as their browser and Mutt as email client, in some cases even when 3G (fringe reception only, possibly with tropopausal involvement*) is sometimes reachable. This only came to my attention last week when I noticed a strange Mailer: header and kinda shocked me at first, so I quizzed the sender further. They say that WAP-enabled sites are a non-starter for "daily" use. Worth looking into if the end-user can handle it in these situations. Rural DSL for them usually means Damn Small Linux - their joke not mine. Gord (* I'm not convinced about this - it fits their anecdotes, but I'm not sure about the timing/latency issues of the RF-side ) -- Explain to me again how pig's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes
Current thread:
- Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) Michael Sokolov (Feb 26)
- Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) Brandon Galbraith (Feb 26)
- Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) James Jones (Feb 26)
- Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) Daniel Senie (Feb 26)
- Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) James Jones (Feb 26)
- Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) Daniel Senie (Feb 26)
- RE: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) Crooks, Sam (Feb 26)
- RE: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) Haney, Wilson (Feb 26)
- Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) Daniel Senie (Feb 26)
- Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) gordon b slater (Feb 27)
- RE: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) Haney, Wilson (Feb 26)
- Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) Paul Bosworth (Feb 26)
- Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) Brandon Galbraith (Feb 26)
- Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) Greg Bur (Feb 26)
- Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) Joel Jaeggli (Feb 27)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) Michael Sokolov (Feb 26)
- Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg) Michael Sokolov (Feb 26)