{"id":19,"date":"2015-12-19T11:31:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T11:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bulger.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=19"},"modified":"2015-12-19T11:31:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T11:31:35","slug":"using-satellite-slow-connections-reducing-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulger.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"Using Satellite Slow Connections, Reducing cost."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EXPENSIVE CONNECTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have just revised my blogs on keeping internet costs down with narrow expensive connections. Its still rather longwinded, so here is a summary!<\/p>\n<p>All\u00a0\u00a0gadget providers\u00a0now believe that every one has unfettered access to broadband.\u00a0 Alas there was still part of the world where that is expensive or does not\u00a0exist, and those of us forced to use Satellite communications from the field have big problems.\u00a0\u00a0The costs are so high\u00a0an update would break the bank. We cannot control what out phones and PCs do in the background.<\/p>\n<p>My solution was to make sure that anything I plugged into the satellite device\/route\u00a0never knows\u00a0the route to the internet.\u00a0 I set them so that there was only one route in the IP tables, the route via the satellite to a proxy server.\u00a0 Then I\u00a0used\u00a0another browsers such as Opera or Sea Monkey\u00a0as they\u00a0have email clients.\u00a0\u00a0These browsers\u00a0can set their own\u00a0connections via a proxy server independent of the\u00a0operating system, so\u00a0nothing else can connect to the internet.<\/p>\n<p>This is detailed on <a href=\"https:\/\/bulger.co.uk\/satellitecost.htm\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bulger.co.uk\/satellitecost.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>other ideas to reduce costs on satellite are here <a href=\"https:\/\/bulger.co.uk\/satellitecost2.htm\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bulger.co.uk\/satellitecost2.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXPENSIVE CONNECTIONS I have just revised my blogs on keeping internet costs down with narrow expensive connections. Its still rather longwinded, so here is a summary! All\u00a0\u00a0gadget providers\u00a0now believe that every one has unfettered access to broadband.\u00a0 Alas there was still part of the world where that is expensive or does not\u00a0exist, and those of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bulger.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=19\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Using Satellite Slow Connections, Reducing cost.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulger.co.uk\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulger.co.uk\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulger.co.uk\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulger.co.uk\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulger.co.uk\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulger.co.uk\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/bulger.co.uk\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulger.co.uk\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulger.co.uk\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulger.co.uk\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}