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Hi All
Yes, here in the Cook Islands we have recently started our WiFi hotspot service in the capital (rarotonga), to simplify the administration we only offer prepaid access where a user will purchase prepaid cards which have the access code printed on it. At the moment we have 4 hotspots (2 in town area + 2 resorts) and are soon to deploy additional sites including the airport.
Pricing is based only on volume of data transferred, but accounts expire 30 days after activation. Pricing as follows (NZ dollars):
100MB $15.00 300MB $36.00 500MB $50.00 800MB $64.00
Cheers Rob.
-----Original Message----- From: pacnog-bounces@pacnog.org [mailto:pacnog-bounces@pacnog.org] On Behalf Of Save Vocea Sent: Thursday, 13 October 2005 5:05 p.m. To: PacNOG Subject: Re: [pacnog] Broadband in Fiji
Thanks for the update Alfred. I understand there's massive drops or tariff rebalanced for phone & Internet rates this month. Also a new ISP - broadband wireless provider is operating in Fiji.
Good feedback for next PacNOG event or even to keep this list active :) Any other pac islands made any significant Internet service offerings? I read a report that Cook Islands also have wireless hotspots in Rarotonga - robert??
Folks just another reminder about fellowships to APRICOT 2006 if you are interested to attend. http://www.apricot2006.net/index.php/fuseaction/home.fellowship for now send EOI to apricot@congresswest.com.au
rgds, Save
On 13/10/2005, at 3:28 PM, Alfred Prasad wrote:
Thought I'd update the list on what we've been doing with
broadband in
Fiji.
In March this year we rolled out our wireless network
(pre-WiMAX) in
Suva.
The system capabilities are:
Line of site - 30km Non line of sight - 7km B/W - burst to 7Mbps
We've got a few hundred customers on the wireless network today.
From June this year we've been rolling out our ADSL
network (ADSL2+).
Within the next two months we'll have all the urban areas
covered by
broadband.
We've learnt quite a bit from setting up these networks and so if anyone is looking to setup broadband networks, we'd be
happy to share
our experiences.
Alfred.
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Dear All,
We just finish upgrading one of our internet link and have to move our router to the earth station so that we can connect it to the sat. modem v.35 port. Before the modem was connected via coax to a DXC (convert from coax to v.35) and then to the router in our computer room. The problem with the DXC is that its limited to 2mbps link.
I am wondering how we can extend our connection so that we can move our router back to our computer room for easier maintenance, etc.
Regards
TCC/IT/Siumafua Moala Senior Engineer I.T.
Tonga Communications Corp. Nuku'alofa, Tonga Is. Private Bag 4.
Work Phone : +676 20066, 20065 Home Phone : +676 26838 Fax No : +676 26701 Home Mob : +676 19411 Standby mob: +676 15194 Email: siumafua.moala@tcc.to[,kalianet.to]
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Hi,
Mr. Siumafua Moala said the following on 17/5/06 12:52:
We just finish upgrading one of our internet link and have to move our router to the earth station so that we can connect it to the sat. modem v.35 port. Before the modem was connected via coax to a DXC (convert from coax to v.35) and then to the router in our computer room. The problem with the DXC is that its limited to 2mbps link.
I am wondering how we can extend our connection so that we can move our router back to our computer room for easier maintenance, etc.
Short of upgrading your DXC to support speeds above 2Mbps, the only other options would be to have a small router used as "media" convertor at the earth-station (V.35 one side, ethernet the other), connecting to your main router back at the office by ethernet (up to 100 metres) or by fibre. What speed are you trying to support?
Or get some device that will extend >2Mbps circuit over fibre... I started browsing through RAD's website, and maybe something like http://www.rad-direct.com/Application-t3-extender-fiber.htm could work. This particular one won't as it only supports T3s.
Sorry, I don't have much idea otherwise... :-( Upgrading the DXC seems easiest if you can't leave the router at the earth-station.
philip --

Hi,
We are using SDM-300 Sat modems with a UB-530 interface board. This has an EI-530 interface which can be wired to V.35 standards. We have our core routers at the SES (only < .5 mtr away) and using Ethernet take it to the distribution/access network where one is 500mtrs and another is 2km. We keep the internet traffic on a separate VLAN to distribute it. This way you need not have to run it into a Mux or converter... Saves you money.
Our link is presently configured to work at 3M down and 1M up. I know that V.35 can go up to 5Mbps after that we will shift to HSSI or Ethernet interface on the sat modems.
Alex
-----Original Message----- From: pacnog-bounces@pacnog.org [mailto:pacnog-bounces@pacnog.org] On Behalf Of Philip Smith Sent: Thursday, 18 May 2006 2:52 a.m. To: Mr. Siumafua Moala Cc: PacNOG Subject: Re: [pacnog] Router & Sattelite modem connection
Hi,
Mr. Siumafua Moala said the following on 17/5/06 12:52:
We just finish upgrading one of our internet link and have to move our router to the earth station so that we can connect it to the sat. modem v.35 port. Before the modem was connected via coax to a DXC (convert from coax to v.35) and then to the router in our computer room. The problem with the DXC is that its limited to 2mbps link.
I am wondering how we can extend our connection so that we can move our router back to our computer room for easier maintenance, etc.
Short of upgrading your DXC to support speeds above 2Mbps, the only other options would be to have a small router used as "media" convertor at the earth-station (V.35 one side, ethernet the other), connecting to your main router back at the office by ethernet (up to 100 metres) or by fibre. What speed are you trying to support?
Or get some device that will extend >2Mbps circuit over fibre... I started browsing through RAD's website, and maybe something like http://www.rad-direct.com/Application-t3-extender-fiber.htm could work. This particular one won't as it only supports T3s.
Sorry, I don't have much idea otherwise... :-( Upgrading the DXC seems easiest if you can't leave the router at the earth-station.
philip
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