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by **Grande_assiette** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 7:30 pm

nhowarth wrote:Hi Strahd

Do you know in what areas they're looking to offer a service?

Regards,

Hi Nigel,

it's "MarkyMark" here..

if you remember I came out her with the aim to provide a service like this in CY..

but the telco regulator contrived to "stitch me up" with "delaying tactics" and my ideas were even being passed on to CYTA..

I learnt this from the EU :-)

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Currently I concentrayte in providing 2 way sat platforms as an alternative, and when i hear talk about "latency" I fall about laughing as I can makl perfect phone calls via SKYPE or similar with FAR better results than the local hard wired telcos ADSL home solutions.

I'm biased, of course but the best bet for non wired rural DSL areas is to install a pro 2- way sat service on a 75cm dish and share it with a few neighbours :-)

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Sadly the kit costs £1800 and the service is £90, but five people can share it an it blows the doors off my 1.5 business - lie connection which i use as a comparisson.

There is a firm advertising a Hughes based 2 way sat platform for
£49.99 / month and £499 installed.. but you are sharing with SO many people and if you use it normally, not even heavily, you will fall victim to a "far access policy".. they will charge you for extra downloads or turn your speed down !

You get's what you pay for ..

Cyprus is GREAT for telephony, but the internet prices / service SUCK. This is why 2 way sat is VERY competitive.

Agree with the poster who nominates Netway..

When I wanted an alternative to Cyta..called all the wired providors.. only OTE and Netway bothered to respond.. the others Logos/ Prime. etc, were called twice and net based forms were filled in on the web.. NO response...

I wish we had Sweden's service /pricing and CY's weather :-)

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Take Care.

Mark

by **Sotos** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 5:41 am

And what do you get with the £90? Whats the speed? And is it unlimited transfer?

by **Jim** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 6:37 am

I have a Hughes Sat system as I don't have a Cyta landline and it costs C£83 per month. The upload and download speeds are pretty good and I very rarely lose the connection. I bought a Skype phone; opened an account and all that but must say it doesn't work very well. The conversations are broken when I call landlines or mobiles so that's just another gadget sat on the desk gathering dust. I was told it was because the Sat System sends and receives a pulsed signal though I'm not sure if this is correct. Any advice would be appreciated.

Jim

by **cyprusgrump** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:04 am

Jim wrote:I have a Hughes Sat system as I don't have a Cyta landline and it costs C£83 per month. The upload and download speeds are pretty good and I very rarely lose the connection. I bought a Skype phone; opened an account and all that but must say it doesn't work very well. The conversations are broken when I call landlines or mobiles so that's just another gadget sat on the desk gathering dust. I was told it was because the Sat System sends and receives a pulsed signal though I'm not sure if this is correct. Any advice would be appreciated.

Jim

Skype automatically selects the bandwidth that it will use – you cannot control this.

When Skype makes an initial connection, it detects the bandwidth available on the Hughes satellite and then tries to use that bandwidth for the entire call. If the satellite link cannot keep up this bandwidth the call will drop out as you have found.

If it was possible to tell Skype to use a lower-level of bandwidth you would be able to make perfect calls.

However, some of our customers have reported very good quality of service using the latest version of Skype (version 2.5) recently.