[123083] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Locations with no good Internet (was ISP in Johannesburg)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gordon b slater)
Sat Feb 27 05:54:23 2010
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From: gordon b slater <gordslater@ieee.org>
To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:53:38 +0000
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On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 19:20 -0500, Daniel Senie wrote:
> Hopefully someone will bother to cover the rural areas with cell
> service eventually.
>
I'm finding a fair number (about 40%+) of the tech-savvy
"must-have-for-business-emails" users here in very rural UK out of reach
of RA-ADSL) are using/have used Lynx as their browser and Mutt as email
client, in some cases even when 3G (fringe reception only, possibly with
tropopausal involvement*) is sometimes reachable.
This only came to my attention last week when I noticed a strange
Mailer: header and kinda shocked me at first, so I quizzed the sender
further. They say that WAP-enabled sites are a non-starter for "daily"
use.
Worth looking into if the end-user can handle it in these situations.
Rural DSL for them usually means Damn Small Linux - their joke not mine.
Gord
(* I'm not convinced about this - it fits their anecdotes, but I'm not
sure about the timing/latency issues of the RF-side )
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