[H-GEN] dial in server

[Nick Kwiatkowski]

Johann wrote on 23/01/2006 07:05:55 AM:

> well, they have promised a satelite phone or similar to be able to
> send/receive phone calls. And no, I don't know if I can even dial out
> with whatever they give as in the meantime.
>

Telstra will be supplying an Iridium phone Satellite phone, basically the
Iridium system supports phone and data, but the data speed is 2.4kbit/sec
connection, or a 10kbit/sec connection with compression [1]. Some details
on how you can connect non-Windows platforms to it can be found here:

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~mcba/iridiumLinux.html

> As far as we can tell, once we get a phone line, we'll be able to get
> ADSL. Telstra have said as much, and other people in the same street
> can get adsl.
>

The concern would be the quality of the connection to the exchange, and the
distance and number of joins in the cable. As that will determine the
quality of the line, the amount of attenuation in the line, which will
effect the overall speed attainable from the ADSL modem [2].

Ciao,

Nik

[1] Thought I would post to the list in case others are interested.
[2] http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/index.cfm?a=wiki&tag=ADSL_Theory


Nickolas Kwiatkowski
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