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Remember when I did that post about finding a pay as you go wireless connection? Well, while I was at WordCampNYC (more on that later.) I *had* to go and get the Virgin Mobile Broadband2Go Wireless USB Card
Read more about Revisting the Broadband “Pay As You Go” Plan.
"Sezmi plans to be a cable competitor, offering live television content via broadband Internet services. Users will have a set-top box allowing them to access both broadcast and cable content, along with on-demand films and Internet video content. The system is promising more personalization options than existing TV providers as well as much lower costs."
minimize/maximize. minimize/maximize!
I have visions of a server somewhere printing on it's green screen terminal this expression over and over again. I just tried to check to see if you could get bethere adsl2+ service at conkers and that is the result i got. i'm tendering it out for the first three months conkertu.com events to have a failover broadband wifi of 'something' until sponsoring and value can be proven of having tweetups and other things that might splinter off (social media training for instance, living credit free etc) while we hosting them. the idea of relaxing outside in the national forest in the warmer months with my laptop and a fast internet connection really do appeal! I'm trying a handful of other internet providers in the hope that we can get a bonded system in before launch, cutting it a bit fine i know but i was experimenting with the hope of mobile connectivity bonded but having to get additional aerials to pull in the signal and cost in getting the hardware and dongles for it are a bit difficult at this moment and expecting the community to sponsor a concept when it is being proven as we do it is difficult. press forward on with it i will however! :)
i'm going to sort it out and BT today so my internet does not go off at home. mainly because i could not afford for it too be disconnected really because then i would have to pay out the complete contract. hopefully soon i'll have a mobile mega bandwidth box in testing just in case of situations like this in the future. click the picture to get the fullsize version. it makes for a great read! :)
Not pressure or anything bethere but i really do like your 'call to action' emails! :)
Morning.
I'm looking to make something quite radical for the bandwidthinaboxproject. the first version will be a full size PC because that is all i have currently but i intend to make this as small as possible that will fit inside a box with a decent yatsu battery powering it all but first i need to prove the concept. my idea is to use zeroshell to bond together a bunch of 3g/hspda modems to provide a load balanced failover connection. I have one of each of the e169 and the e220 at the moment (both i need to unlock) and i'll be powering all of these on t-mobile for the conkertu event. I'll also have my other cradlepoints as backups and i just ordered a stack of t-mobile sims (because that is the best connection we can get
down at conkers at the moment)
Just giving the voice memos a spin this morning - even thou I think it is only two minutes max time I think it could be useful for easy posting.
I would use audioboo but I have no way to say embed or not or be able to set custom background colours for the embed per site.
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you have seen the adverts. upto 8 meg, up to 20 meg.
chances are you will hardly ever hit those kind of speeds. in fact i would go as far to say that most people think they have those speeds already and are totally unaware that they are probably only touching 15%-20% of a decent connection. add to that fact hidden programs, virus and bots uploading/downloading things in the background and you can understand why people get frustrated with 'the internet' even before you start talking about 'social media making' - we need to educate. i'm finding out that most people in a rural location have very very poor internet connectivity. if i'm to prove that having hi-speed internet connectivity in an area is valuable we need to educate a few people about the difference in upload/download speeds and connectivity in general. until people experience the value of what can be done with an internet connection of a certain speed and what it can open them up too, trying to explain social media to people who do not have the technology in place to upload without frustration will always fall on deaf ears. finding out your upload and download speed
Now this is slightly more of what I expect from my 8MB connection. Still the fact is, it doesn't even get half way to what I was promised,
Digital Britain is an illusion.by Devin Coldewey - October 28, 2009
Just an interesting visualization of the broadband situation out there. Statistics get a bad rap, probably because they’re always in spreadsheet form when they should be in an infographic. Click away for the full-size version.
Uhhhh, Japan for the win.
