By Kitty @ CrystalVisions (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #187) on Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 4:38 pm: |
Hi everybody,
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By bob neer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #738) on Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 4:57 pm: |
meep! meep!
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By Jake Richter (Moderator - Post #3898) on Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 5:01 pm: |
I'll believe it when I see it. Considering how fragile the signal quality is on the local cable system is I think that it will be quite some time before they have wide coverage on the island. I had also heard that they are planning on only providing a 512Kbps feed to the entire cable modem network, initially. With, for example, 500 users on-line at once with 10% utilization, you'd be looking at 10Kbps IF everything was balanced (it usually isn't). That said, I hope they do everything right from the start and prove my skepticism to be misplaced. That would make me very happy...
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By michael gaynor (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1613) on Friday, February 21, 2003 - 8:08 am: |
Oh ye of little faith! The equipment for Cable has been ordered and it finally appears to be a reality. I can only hope that Jake's doubts(and to some extent mine as well) will be erased.
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By Kitty @ CrystalVisions (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #188) on Friday, February 21, 2003 - 8:59 am: |
Ha! I did not say that 'Mmmh' without any skepticism either... I did not dare ask for the coverage or speed when I was on the phone with that ISP; the man I was talking to was soooooo enthousiastic...
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By Peter Cabus (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #149) on Saturday, February 22, 2003 - 3:53 am: |
Hi all,
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By Jake Richter (Moderator - Post #3909) on Saturday, February 22, 2003 - 4:34 pm: |
Peter,
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By Peter Cabus (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #150) on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 6:10 am: |
Jake,
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By Jake Richter (Moderator - Post #3912) on Sunday, February 23, 2003 - 10:57 pm: |
Bite the bullet (i.e. give up on the reasonable effort of using e-mail to contact an ISP and use the phone instead - which is unreasonable but the only option left) :-)
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By Kitty @ CrystalVisions (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #191) on Monday, February 24, 2003 - 8:44 am: |
Hi Peter!
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By Gabriel (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #5) on Monday, February 24, 2003 - 7:16 pm: |
Hi Kitty, if you are looking for a person who knows about Telbonet you should ask for Maybelange when you call Telbo. There are also some 3 digit numbers to contact Telbo, I'll let you know more about that when I hear the Telbo commercial again.
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By Jake Richter (Moderator - Post #3920) on Monday, February 24, 2003 - 9:39 pm: |
I think those 3-digit numbers are in the front of the phone book too. Can only be called from on-island though.
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By Peter Cabus (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #151) on Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 5:37 am: |
Hi Kitty,
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By Kitty @ CrystalVisions (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #192) on Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 9:01 am: |
ROFL!!!! Thanks Peter, I'll remember this.
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By Kitty @ CrystalVisions (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #193) on Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 9:25 am: |
TelboNet
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By Gabriel (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #6) on Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 11:15 am: |
The number for Telbonet is actually 122, but I can see that 112 also does the trick
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By Jake Richter (Moderator - Post #3921) on Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 11:26 am: |
BonaireNet's dial-up service, which is actually repackaged AT&T Global Net (http://www.attglobal.net), is the slowest on the island (they still use SLIP connections now I think, instead of the faster PPP).
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By Peter Cabus (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #152) on Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 11:44 am: |
I just recieved a quote from from BonaireLive (without calling them). Excellent.
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By bob neer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #755) on Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 11:54 am: |
someone could just blow bonairenet a
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By Jake Richter (Moderator - Post #3924) on Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 12:00 pm: |
Mind you, this experience with BonaireNet was years ago (probably about 4 years ago, I think?) - I don't know of anyone else they shafted for paid time, so it may well be that I'm special (they probably also didn't and still don't like that our company, NetTech, is their biggest competitor for Web hosting on Bonaire, although at the time we weren't as prolific in our Web support as we are now).
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By Kitty @ CrystalVisions (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #194) on Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 2:15 pm: |
Peter, I just can't seem to get through to BonaireLive. What fees did you get quoted?
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By Jake Richter (Moderator - Post #3927) on Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 2:35 pm: |
Kitty,
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By Kitty @ CrystalVisions (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #195) on Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 2:48 pm: |
Hi Jake,
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By Jake Richter (Moderator - Post #3928) on Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 3:12 pm: |
I think you/they mean 128Kbps, not 128Mbps (I wish!). I truly hope they succeed. That would be the sort of competition Telbo needs here against their leased lines and wireless service. If it works up here in Hato, I'd be happy to set-up a separate computer connected just to the cable service for testing purposes. We'll see.
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By Peter Cabus (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #153) on Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 4:09 pm: |
Kitty,
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By Kitty @ CrystalVisions (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #196) on Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 5:31 pm: |
Oops, slip of the finger... I WISH it was 128 Mbps... But that would be something that's *really* out of this world...
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By Daniel Senie (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #206) on Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 7:40 pm: |
Cable modems usually run between 128Kbps and 256Kbps for data transmitted from your computer toward the Internet, and speeds of 512Kbps to 1.5Mbps (and in some places faster) for data transmitted from the Internet toward your computer.
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By Ann Phelan (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #1000) on Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 7:43 pm: |
ok, so a simple question for a computer dummy...if I live in Bonaire the fastest connection will be to get a land line at home and go on that way? Man, I will miss my wireless on my new laptop...
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By seb schulherr (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #470) on Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 12:55 am: |
"If" Annie? Don't you mean "when."
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By Jake Richter (Moderator - Post #3934) on Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - 7:58 am: |
Annie - right now, the fastest affordable connection is dial-up. Within the year, it may be that cable modem might be faster (we'll see), and perhaps late wireless. It's all a crap shoot for now.
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