telabria

OK, so in follow up to my own question posted earlier (cf "A tale of
broadband woe"), I have looked more closely at the wi-fi option. It
seems to be the best bet in my area.

The company operating the wifi network is Telabria, their product is
called Skylink. Their network currently reaches to within a few miles of
me (if you look at their website under "Canterbury Area", they offer
coverage to the "Rough Common" area, which is about 3 miles away), but
obviously that is not quite good enough for my needs - I have emailed
them to ask for more information on their service, but (this may be a
silly question) can anyone provide any tips on how I can persuade them
to extend their network in my direction? I am prepared to pay their
installation costs (up to a point) if necessary - how much is this
likely to cost me?

much obliged,

d.

"davek" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> OK, so in follow up to my own question posted earlier (cf "A tale of
> broadband woe"), I have looked more closely at the wi-fi option. It seems
> to be the best bet in my area.
>
> The company operating the wifi network is Telabria, their product is
> called Skylink. Their network currently reaches to within a few miles of
> me (if you look at their website under "Canterbury Area", they offer
> coverage to the "Rough Common" area, which is about 3 miles away), but
> obviously that is not quite good enough for my needs - I have emailed them
> to ask for more information on their service, but (this may be a silly
> question) can anyone provide any tips on how I can persuade them to extend
> their network in my direction? I am prepared to pay their installation
> costs (up to a point) if necessary - how much is this likely to cost me?
>
> much obliged,
>
> d.

No company will invest for just ONE user. if you were to pay them a few
thousand pounds a year to cover costs then I am sure they would be happy.
Failing that, get yourself a really decent high gain aerial high up and
point it in the direction of theit network.
The only other way is to show that local people and companies will sign up
and stay with them for a minimum contract term of say 18 months.
It's all down to money, no one will do anything for free.
Failing that, scan around for local networks!

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 01:48:44 +0000, davek <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>but (this may be a
>silly question) can anyone provide any tips on how I can persuade them
>to extend their network in my direction?

offer to host a repeater station for others in your area similarly
affected ?

Phil
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davek wrote:
> OK, so in follow up to my own question posted earlier (cf "A tale of
> broadband woe"), I have looked more closely at the wi-fi option. It
> seems to be the best bet in my area.
>
> The company operating the wifi network is Telabria, their product is
> called Skylink. Their network currently reaches to within a few miles
> of me (if you look at their website under "Canterbury Area", they
> offer coverage to the "Rough Common" area, which is about 3 miles
> away), but obviously that is not quite good enough for my needs - I
> have emailed them to ask for more information on their service, but
> (this may be a silly question) can anyone provide any tips on how I
> can persuade them to extend their network in my direction? I am
> prepared to pay their installation costs (up to a point) if necessary
> - how much is this likely to cost me?
>
> much obliged,
>
> d.

From the way you describe the situation I think your best bet would be a
satellite based system. I know they are available but I don't know any
details, try a Google search for satellite broadband.
--
Adrian A

mark wrote:
> The only other way is to show that local people and companies will sign up
> and stay with them for a minimum contract term of say 18 months.

Brilliant idea! Almost seems too obvious.

I shall get to work right away on a petition to convince the locals of
the merits of this scheme. Then maybe I can convince the company that it
makes commercial sense to extend the network this way...

> Failing that, scan around for local networks!

Alas, our nearest neighbour is out of range of our wireless router -
which is of course good from a security point of view for us, and I
expect they feel pretty much the same.

d.

Phil Thompson wrote:
> offer to host a repeater station for others in your area similarly
> affected ?

Good idea, I shall try that too. Thanks.

d.

Adrian wrote:
> From the way you describe the situation I think your best bet would be a
> satellite based system.

I've looked into satellite systems but they are prohibitively expensive.
On the other hand, if I can get a few other people locally to share
the costs, it might make it more feasible.

d.

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 13:25:10 +0000, davek <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>
>I've looked into satellite systems but they are prohibitively expensive.

define :-)

ISDN could add up to a similar amount if you do a lot of 128k use.

Phil
--
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Phil Thompson wrote:
> ISDN could add up to a similar amount if you do a lot of 128k use.

Ah. I haven't really looked into ISDN all that closely, and I was
assuming it would be cheaper.

From what I have found out in my research so far, satellite broadband
seems to cost something in the order of several thousand pounds for the
hardware alone, plus subscription fees running into hundreds of pounds a
month. I understood that such services were generally targeted at
communities rather than individual users.

Is anyone aware of some other type of satellite broadband service that
might suit me better?

d.

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:17:24 +0000, davek <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>From what I have found out in my research so far, satellite broadband
>seems to cost something in the order of several thousand pounds for the
>hardware alone, plus subscription fees running into hundreds of pounds a
>month. I understood that such services were generally targeted at
>communities rather than individual users.

the hardware is included in Aramiska's £400/month 2M/512k community
broadband service. Or £220/month for business 1024/256k. Both 4:1
contention.

BT's 512k satellite was £60/month and a grand setup/hardware.

http://www.btopenworld.com/satellite/pricing_isdn.html

sharing costs / bandwidth with others in the same position ??

Phil
--
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http://bbs.adslguide.org.uk/postlist...&Board=tiscali

AOL - the unlimited ISP of choice for heavy downloaders.