Broadband/ADSL

[Scania_1]

Just wondering if there were many stations out there who are hooked up to broadband? I know there are some that decided to do it so that they could look up weather reports etc online during incidents for about the same cost as having a dedicated line for dial up. Also sends pager messages quicker I believe as it doesnt have to dial up.

[medevac]

we are...


not too sure why at the moment, but should help when incident reporting online goes out to brigades

[Pipster]

We could...if Telstras lines / exchange was good enough to have Broadband.........a large area of my district cannot get broadband (unless you got satellite...)   

In terms of Government Grants for Broadband, we are classed as having third world phone lines, and hence qualify for the highest rebate from the Government, if we get satellite broadband installed...   

And all this just 20 km from the GPO.

One day, we might even get broadband !!   

Pip

[Scania_1]

Thats what you get for living in mountain goat country Pip. lol, dont know how you fight fires in your area....

[SA Firey]

We have it,however Airsource doesnt have a feature for paging other than the dialup method from the computer,but very good for uploading to websites

[fire03rescue]

All you need is the pager ID and you can send it via email, so you don't need dial-up

[SA Firey]

All you need is the pager ID and you can send it via email, so you don't need dial-up

According to SOP 10.1 this is not allowed

[bajdas]

All you need is the pager ID and you can send it via email, so you don't need dial-up

According to SOP 10.1 this is not allowed

Interesting. In the new SES GRN/Comms course we teach about the email facility. Can be used by family members of the SES volunteer and as an 'not recommended' facility. Too many chances of wrong email address and too many points of failure. But it is available and hopefully the spelling or location names can be better than Link operators  .

[SA Firey]

Yeah well we all know Link operators cant spell only have to see some of the messages going out to see thay dont type what they read back eh 

[medevac]

All you need is the pager ID and you can send it via email, so you don't need dial-up

According to SOP 10.1 this is not allowed

but since when does anyone seem to follow SOPs?

i regularly use the internet based paging site, as do many others around the place

[SA Firey]

We could...if Telstras lines / exchange was good enough to have Broadband.........a large area of my district cannot get broadband (unless you got satellite...)   

In terms of Government Grants for Broadband, we are classed as having third world phone lines, and hence qualify for the highest rebate from the Government, if we get satellite broadband installed...   

And all this just 20 km from the GPO.

One day, we might even get broadband !!   

Pip

Maybe you need a Kombi van as an appliance....."Ive been everywhere man"
makes it appear you can get it anywhere

[Pipster]

I'd never get up the hills in hot weather!!   

And Ath, we fight fires fairly well in the hills, because most of us have one leg shorter than the other, so we can stand up straight on the mountainous slopes   

Pip

[SA Firey]

Ahh technology dont you love it