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Originally Posted by Rex
Awesome image Tim, and a fantastic set up. I think I need to run SCNR on myself I am so green with envy.  |
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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Your internet connection, is it landline or mobile 3g? If its mobile is it reliable?
Greg.
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Good on you Rex!
Greg,
It is mobile 3G coming off a tower 22km away....If you look at the panorama shot I attached a few replies back, you will see a yellow triangular 3G aerial (yagi) on a pole high up above the satellite dish. This gives us very reliable internet indeed....actually faster than I get at home on the crappy old copper wires in Cairns (ADSL). We have never had it go down......It seems as there is very little population out there, that the bandwidth available to us remains solid all the time. If the 3G was to go down though, as the signal is going straight into our network router, along with the satellite internet, the satellite internet kicks in automatically and you don't even notice a significant delay......The satellite internet is not quite as good for remote access as the distance the the signal has to travel up to the satellite and back down to Earth (76000 km) causes an inherent 550msec ping time. The satellite however, is cheaper and good for file transmission, so we do use it for that preferentially.
We enjoy going out there to do regular maintenance or to troubleshoot .....total peace and tranquility!!
Cheers,
Tim