This will certainly be something that we will discuss with BT when we
install the line. I will certainly be proposing that residents can
dial in to use the services at the village hall.

The whole point about this is to provide a service for residents of
Beal and it is something I will be stressing. We do now have a grant
to action this, so I will keep you posted about developments as soon
as I know.

In the meantime - I realise we can now get broadband at 512 Mbit
speed but has anyone tried the onspeed service for browsing. I
installed it last month and I am not kidding it works a treat.

It cost £23 a year and increases dialup and broadband connections by
up to 5 times by some compression technology with images. It means
the images are slightly fuzzy, but 99% of the time you only want the
information. If you are after quality images it is great because you
can search through the images 5 times faster - when you do find an
image that you really do want to examine in high resolution simply
turn the onspeed service off and you get a full resolution picture
downloaded.

I was very skeptical when I saw this at first - but I have to admit
it does what it claims and has improved browsing speed no end.

Obviously it does not assist a network connection for accessing a
private network - but it is worth considering for taking the pain out
of browsing using a dial up speed for the cost of a typical 6 weeks
broadband subscription.

Cheers,


Trevor.

--- In beal@..., "Dave Waller" <dwaller@b...> wrote:
>
> The latest parish newsletter mentions a forthcoming broadband
> connection to the Parish Hall. Is there any chance that it will be
> something wireless that we can link into from home?
> If not, how will the cyber-cafe be run and can I move in on a semi-
> permanent basis to work from the Hall?
>
> Dave
>