I've just put in a POP in Glennallen Alaska, and now have local
Internet access to the Copper River Valley, and am sending this
to you from ny cabin in Slana AK, mile 61 of the Tok-Cutoff. Yes,
that's one LONG URL there for you, pointing out the location.
http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapsurfer?act=out&outfact=2&map.x=211&map.y=180&lat=62.70152&lon=-143.99397&wid=0.250&ht=0.250&iht=359&iwd=422&&off=CITIES&on=GRID&on=miscell&on=places&on=statehwy&on=ushwy&on=water&tlevel=-&tvar=-&tmeth=i&mlat=62.70152&mlo
n=-143.99397&msym=redpin&mlabel=Slana,+AK&murl=&conf=mapnew.con
I'm 50 miles from the end of the power-lines (which happens to be
the location of the notorious HAARP site) but the "local" LEC has
a DMS remote just miles up the road and my External SupraFAX 28.8
says I'm doing 28.8rx/24.4tx although I get 31.4rx/21.6tx on most
trunks.
Ok, so a cabin aint camping, but I got my generator and my 600W UPS
to keep my portable running and good phonelines and a local number
to my nearest POP. Could it get much better than this!?
Well, I half jokingly ask the tariff on a 56K to my cabin while
installing my POP (PM-2e-30, USR TC hub and Cisco 2524) and they
came back with a price of $150/mo ! ~1/5th the cost for a 56k to
my house just outside of Anchorage.
As to Cellular and a notebook, I'll have to attack that this
winter. The RF tech for Copper Valley Telephone said he'd tried
a megahertz modem with his Fixed-Cellular installation and the
best he got was 4800. Since 40% of the folks in this area are
serviced by UHF radiophone and Fixed-cellular phone service due
to the $62k/mile cost of installing copper (wire that is), I'll
be having to figure out the best way to provide service over
cellular.
But enough of that tech-talk. The northern-lights are out and
dancing so I'll step outside abit and water a tree and see if
the 'lights have picked up any...
On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Jon Lewis wrote:
...
> Camping? You get to go camping? I haven't had a true vacation since I
> started as a sysadmin. Everywhere I've gone, I've not been out of contact
> with the systems for more than about 20 hours. Haven't been camping for a
> few years. Where can I plug in my modem out there? Don't you know the T1
> will go down and disks will crash as soon as you get the tent setup?
> I wonder if a descnet notebook and cell phone would work? Has anyone
> tried dialup over cellular?
>
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