[COLUG] Linux-friendly rural broadband in Central Ohio?

[Stephen Nordlund]

My folks use satelite.  They travel all over the States working at
National Parks and can seldom get cable let alone a phoneline.  So they
took some classes on setting up there "dish" and they not swear by it.  I
have used it and it seems better then dial up but not as good as DSL or
Cable.  And I wouldn't think of hosting much if anything off of it. 
Satelite uplink bandwidths are a 1/10th of the downlink.

-- 
Stephen Nordlund, MCP
Systems Engineer


peter kukla said:
> I am leaving the comforts of civilization behind and
> moving to a house FAR from Cable or DSL connectivity.
> (In the Lancaster-Amanda area, back in the woods.)
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> Does anyone out there have experience with the
> "alternate" sources of Internet connectivity for the
> wired guy? Satellite, plain old dialup with an
> extremely good provider, or something else?  What has
> worked well, and what hasn't?
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> I'm currently using 2 IPs from Road Runner, one for my
> Coyote Linux box, and one for my personal webserver.
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> Keeping this configuration would make my life a LOT
> easier, so multiple IPs are a bonus.
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> I'm not a major bandwidth-hog.  I download a few ISOs
> and tarballs now and then, but I don't play network
> games or bother with file-sharing.  Mostly I web-surf
> and login to a remote machine or two using ssh.
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> A constant-on state would be preferred.
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> Linux friendliness (or, at least, tolerance) is very
> much desired.
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> Any Linux folk out there in the 740 area code with an
> opinion?
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> TIA...peter
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