Comment If you have to use dial up... (Score 1) 241
...use http://loband.org/
My brother in law helped design it for third world countries with slow dial up, so that they can interact with the web at large, but I found another good niche for it.
For half a year I worked on a luxury yacht, doing mostly blue water sailing to the high latitudes. Currently the only reasonably priced satellite connections are the Inmarsat B Fleet range, with a maximum speed equivalent to Dual ISDN.
Trouble is, that costs about $20 a minute, so instead the crew would be forced to use a packet switching service with a maximum speed of 33.6kbps. Surfing the web at that speed is simply unbearable, but if you put the URL into loband you can actually surf most sites at a comfortable speed.
We used it mostly for navigating the image heavy NOAA and Canadian Ice Service home pages until we found the chart we wanted then copy and pasting the link into wget. That way if the yacht suddenly rolled and the connection was severed it wouldn't have been for nothing.
Once over 80 degrees latitude, Inmarsat B drops below the horizon, and you have to use Iridium for data connections at 9.6kbps! Try surfing the normal web with that.
loband is an absolute life saver.
My brother in law helped design it for third world countries with slow dial up, so that they can interact with the web at large, but I found another good niche for it.
For half a year I worked on a luxury yacht, doing mostly blue water sailing to the high latitudes. Currently the only reasonably priced satellite connections are the Inmarsat B Fleet range, with a maximum speed equivalent to Dual ISDN.
Trouble is, that costs about $20 a minute, so instead the crew would be forced to use a packet switching service with a maximum speed of 33.6kbps. Surfing the web at that speed is simply unbearable, but if you put the URL into loband you can actually surf most sites at a comfortable speed.
We used it mostly for navigating the image heavy NOAA and Canadian Ice Service home pages until we found the chart we wanted then copy and pasting the link into wget. That way if the yacht suddenly rolled and the connection was severed it wouldn't have been for nothing.
Once over 80 degrees latitude, Inmarsat B drops below the horizon, and you have to use Iridium for data connections at 9.6kbps! Try surfing the normal web with that.
loband is an absolute life saver.
