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Old May 22nd 2008, 1:26 pm
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Well here goes for my first post.

I'm due to arrive in Palmerston N. in 14 days time. My boss has kindly/desperately asked me to carry on working for him but I require a decent internet connection and the satellite stuff looks ok (www.wirelessnation.co.nz)

Does anybody have any experience of satellite broadband especially with regards to remote working/VPN to the UK?
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Old May 22nd 2008, 7:06 pm
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VPN over satellite is never going to be much fun because of the latency usually around a second round trip.
It's usually also more expensive than land-line or even cellular
You'd probably be better off with a Telecom or Vodafone data card. Cost is approx $50 per month including 1GByte, then $10 per GByte over that. I would have though you'd get a good data rate (ie 350kbps or over) in Palmy
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Old May 22nd 2008, 7:35 pm
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Thanks for that lapsed kiwi.
I'd previously thought that mobile broadband coverage was restricted to the main cities but see now that coverage should be ok for me.
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Coverage is actually not bad even in semi-rural areas - and despite what some people say, Palmy is considered to be a main city
We use the Telecom mobile broadband service for work and are pleased with the results. It can be used for VOIP such as skype - not quite as good as ADSL due to a bit of jitter but still acceptable. Vodafone is probably just as good - I would check out the coverage and costs for where you are going to be and choose whatever is best, but there is probably not going to be much difference
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