Ben's Talk3G Blog

I feel remote.

I feel like I'm working on a rig tens of miles from the coast.

In reality, I'm five minutes from the centre of a city. No village. No town. An actual city.

Here's a little ping to googe.com to show you what I'm contending with:
99 packets transmitted, 95 packets received, 4.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 570.649/817.659/1797.023/213.687 ms

Yes, you read that right, the fastest ping is 570ms, the average is 817ms. There's also packet loss. As Tony the Tiger would say, grrrrrrreat!

I'm on the Avanti satellite service, for anyone who's wondering, provided by Avonline.

Anyone got the number of a network planner for a mobile network who might be interested in slapping a hundred grands worth of fibre to my front door and then building a mast on my land? There's no mobile signal here either, I'd gladly take a mast...