On 16 Oct 2023, at 11:16 am, Karl Auer <kauer@nullarbor.com.au> wrote:
On Mon, 2023-10-16 at 10:55 +1000, Andrew Radke wrote:
more due to the extra work involved. Again their advertising of no installation necessary, or self installable, is bulls**t.
Well, to be fair this system was practically just thrown at the ground and it's working, so...
That’s kinda the problem. People get them and then just throw them on the ground because what else do you do. Then they order the roof mount kit...
we get cyclones
We don't :-)
If you get the chance have a look at the roof mount kit. It *might* be okay on a tiled roof, but it does not spread the load suitably for corrugated iron. It also only uses two screws and a very very small footprint for a significantly larger dish. Southern parts of Australia also get some absolutely wild storms and often with very short notice. At least with a cyclone we all know to bring everything inside. Of course the Internet is kind of essential in a situation like that so you get left with bringing the dish in or not, if you even remember the thing.
I really hope the mad scramble by Europe and some private companies to produce a competitor works. Once we have more than one option the world will genuinely change.
IMHO the world has to stop depending on satellites for things that can be done with glass. Orbital pollution is already close to out of hand. "It's expensive" is not the same as "it can't be done". Oh, and stop depending on "the market" to provide essential services.
Absolutely!!! Rural and remote areas though are a real challenge. Maybe the government should stop and think about how the NBN actually works with fixed wireless and start spending money on getting comms into these areas via other means (full disclaimer, we own a small rural WISP for exactly that purpose, and we have to report each year how much we owe for the rural broadband scheme but we don’t get anything back. Luckily the value owed is $0, but still…) Cheers, Andrew