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Why Only DSL, Not Dial Up?

Hello,

Many years ago, before "High-Speed Internet", when "Internet" was still called Information Highway, when i had a "Web TV"for going onto the Internet, there was something "live"on the TV (that was what we used for our "monitor" ) we could view of "live" scenes. The one scene i remember was of a swimming pool area. We had no cable; no DSL; only the Web TV box and electricity. The thing putting the scene on the Internet was probably a "Camcorder", but i donot remember what "they" called it.

Now iam installing video surveillance from a commercial Co. and theyare telling me, in order to view the scenes on Internet, i need DSL. The pictures on my tv, of my outside surroundings, are in little boxes called "CAM1; CAM2; CAM3 and CAM4, so i guess this is a "cam" system. How come i cannot get the pictures on the Internet with dial up, only with DSL, even though, many years ago, before DSL, iwas able to get someone's swimming pool surveillance?

Or does someone know of a way to do this without DSL. My IP gave me a static IP address. What is that, and how do you use it?

Truly

Reply to
Harry
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get DSL you'll love it

Reply to
freddieJi

Why are you posting this to a newsgroup about the repair of electronic equipment?

That's a far more puzzling question than whatever it is you are asking.

Read Mark Zenier's guide to the sci.electronics.* hierarchy before you continue to post off-topic here: ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/m/mzenier/seguide9706.txt

Note there are oddles of computer related and consumer related and likely even internet related questions where you can ask this sort of question.

Michael

Reply to
Michael Black

Need more bandwidth for video than dialup can handle if in fact that's what you'll be viewing. Also if the pics are color they will be larger and have more detail. Just giving you and educated guess here.

Reply to
Meat Plow

u can do it with dialup, but the frame rate will be low, say 2 to 4 frames per second. the amount of data to transfer must be compressed greatly to move across a dialup connection so the video is crappy

anyway, even slow band DSL at 112k is as cheap as crummy 28.8 dialup now a days!

them thars' some fierce competition goimg on with those internet providers my friend! shop around!!

Reply to
HapticZ

Hello,

Where i live (in Amish territory) there is nothing; not even cell phone. I had to put in my own electricity etc. even . . . and thank G^d for Dish, which works sometimes, but very little local.

Truly

Reply to
Harry

you need DSL for speed., you need to be connected at all times. and the static IP is your address that never changes and thus you can be found from a look up server. Using Dial, your IP (address) is not always the same, most of the time it's different.

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Jamie

Jamie wrote in news:jjYgi.42$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe06.lga:

*snip*

You can't be guaranteed a static IP (unless you pay extra for it.) Most DSL providers don't go about changing IP addresses until you disconnect (by turning off the DSL modem), but it's possible your IP address will change.

That's why services such as dyndns exist.

Puckdropper

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Reply to
Puckdropper

then u are stuck! however u may be able to find a Ham radio fellow who could get u started with a packet link across the various ham radio bands. there are lots of options and concessions to be made.

cell links can be prohibitively expensive for broadband use, such as video serving.

however, u may be the first to offer your neighbors the "opportunity" to enrich thier worldly influence to startup a local ISP server. figure $10,000 for equipment and a satelite link and u may start selling net service to the entire region. ;-))

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Reply to
HapticZ

Putting commercial traffic through ham radio is a federal offence. Don't try it. The ham will lose his license

Reply to
Don Bowey

"HapticZ" wrote in news:r4Bhi.27572$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net:

Links via amateur radio may NOT be used for any kind of business transactions.

They require a LICENSED operator in control at all times.

There may NOT be any charges for transmitting messages via amateur radio.

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Reply to
bz

dont tell me NO hams are using any band for moving email and like across them!

comercially, yes it is prohibited, but linking private communications not originating form direct net service?

its not all dots/dashes anymore. subcued modulations have been used to xmit more then just casual blab!

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Reply to
HapticZ

Sure they are, but so what? What you propose is Federally, illegal.

See above.

And your point is, what? It hasn't been all dots and dashes for over 100 years.

Reply to
Don Bowey

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