Tristan,
I have just printed off a map for having Freethorpe as the broadcast centre. I think within 2.5 miles should be easy enough to do (bit of hardware cost involved for each thou). It would then cover:
Beighton Halvergate Freethorpe Cantley Reedham
I suspect within this area we should be able to get enough interest to make it viable.
We can always have a line bigger than a meg put in here, although to be honest most people will be happy to have a perminant connection let alone more bandwidth, I know I would be, I have even looked at 64kbps leased lines, I want it more for the IP and the hosting stuff at home more than anything. If we just do the maths quickly.
1mb = 1024kb 1024 / 64 (the minium people would want) = 16 16 / 8000 (yearly cost) = 41.67per month
To get down to the 64Kbps all people would have to be connected at once, BT have a 50:1 contention ratio on 512kbp ADSL pipes in a worst case this means people will only get 20Kbps so maybe we should let a couple more in??
Ideas please.
Michael -----Original Message----- From: Tristan [mailto:trs@scott998.freeserve.co.uk] Sent: 01 March 2003 12:22 To: Michael Sage Subject: Re: [Alug] Re: wireless WANS
If you could stick up a big enough arial and i can see you from here there
great! hmm maybe i can pursuade the factory to let me use their silos.... no maybe not. is there going to be abroadband on this wan somewhere? i am /probably/ getting satellite link to the net (download only), so about 4-6 movies (divx) per night, according to a current subscriber. i am planning to get a small celery 1ghz - something like that, and put something like half a terabyte in, then it will sit there and grab any file going past (as the files are pushed during the night mainly) this could act as a file server for the network. ill probably put my mp3 collection on it too (20gb). this is going to take a while as ive just bought another BMW and have to pay for that first. 2 months maybe? probably nearer 4... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Sage" lists@theangel.net To: "Tristan Scott" trs@scott998.freeserve.co.uk Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 11:37 AM Subject: RE: [Alug] Re: wireless WANS
If you could stick up a big enough arial and i can see you from here there is no reason why not, wireless arials will do about 30k as the crow flies, so there is no reason why not! :o)
Michael
-----Original Message----- From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Tristan Scott Sent: 22 February 2003 11:21 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [Alug] Re: wireless WANS
hmm if freethorpe got it, would it reach to cantley? no methinks not. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Sage" lists@theangel.net To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 12:03 PM Subject: RE: [Alug] Re: wireless WANS
Jen et al,
The problem with invisible is they are only interested in commercially viable villages, which unfortunately Freethorpe isnt. I have been to one
of
their meetings and what they do is put a leased line into a village and
then
setup a wireless network round the village, they seemed to be a bit
unclear
on the old security frount too, like talking about setting up a village server that all could access etc, this is not ideal as my missues (now
with
month old baby) runsa business from home..... hmmmm.
Regards,
M
BTW good to see the interest is there, maybe a ALUG meeting on it?? :o)
pref
at the UEA, or I could see if we could get the village hall here, bit of
a
travel prob thou i feel. :o|
-----Original Message----- From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of jenny Sent: 20 February 2003 09:56 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [Alug] Re: wireless WANS
Michael Sage wrote:
I would like to make an appeal to all of you without broadband in the
area,
how would you feel about setting up a wireless wan (they are doing it
all
over the country and in other regions (Suffolk, Cambridge)).
Hi Michael, a company called Invisible Networks are setting up the wireless
broadband
around Cambridgeshire, I'm trying to get it in Burwell at the moment.
The
CA are supplying grants if you apply in the correct manner to bring down
the
installation fee. Perhaps IN will come to Norfolk if there is enough interest? Jen.
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I would like to buy myself an inexpensive digital camera. 1.3 megapixels will do for the things I have in mind, though I would want a macro mode. Of course I want it to be linux friendly. Any suggestions?
Cheers
Ian
I would like to buy myself an inexpensive digital camera. 1.3 megapixels will do for the things I have in mind, though I would want a macro mode. Of course I want it to be linux friendly.
I have an Olympus D-380, bought for GBP99 from Dixons in Norwich just before xmas. The supplied memory card is 8Megs so I added a 64Meg card which put the overall price up but still very reasonable. Picture quality seems OK for the money.
It has 2 megapixels, digital zoom and macro mode. Also takes short movies but does not act as a web cam. Menus are easy to navigate to control backlight compensation, white balance and a variety of flash exposure modes etc.
It shows up as a removeable drive under mandrake 8.2 and 9.0 which is very convenient. (Pure luck on my part :-)
The only problem is that this was allegedly a 'special-offer' so it may not still be available at this price.
I just did a quick google and found a review here: http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/reviews/4166/1/ and it is available to buy here (higher price - just under GBP120): http://www.pcwb.com/servlets/Catalogue?id=(54857)&PageCat=ProductQ
HTH Syd
On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 3:44 pm, Syd Hancock wrote:
I would like to buy myself an inexpensive digital camera. 1.3 megapixels will do for the things I have in mind, though I would want a macro mode. Of course I want it to be linux friendly.
I have an Olympus D-380, bought for GBP99 from Dixons in Norwich just before xmas. The supplied memory card is 8Megs so I added a 64Meg card which put the overall price up but still very reasonable. Picture quality seems OK for the money.
It has 2 megapixels, digital zoom and macro mode. Also takes short movies but does not act as a web cam. Menus are easy to navigate to control backlight compensation, white balance and a variety of flash exposure modes etc.
It shows up as a removeable drive under mandrake 8.2 and 9.0 which is very convenient. (Pure luck on my part :-)
The only problem is that this was allegedly a 'special-offer' so it may not still be available at this price.
I just did a quick google and found a review here: http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/reviews/4166/1/ and it is available to buy here (higher price - just under GBP120): http://www.pcwb.com/servlets/Catalogue?id=(54857)&PageCat=ProductQ
HTH Syd
Thanks for that Syd. Seems just the thing I need. Looking on the web it now seems to be called the C-120 and the best price I have found so far is £129.99 with the standard 8Mb card.
Ian
Very detailed rteview of the Olympus Camedia D-380 here:
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2002_reviews/d380.html
Syd
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