Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sun Jul 30 00:21:58 CDT 2006
Hi Marty: I would not really classify Victoria on the island as in the boonies, with a population of over 300,000 and Vancouver, 20 miles away as the crow-flies with a population of over 2,000,000... (It is amazing what you can find in Wikipedia.) Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of MartyConnelly Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 5:51 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] OFFICE 2007 BETA to start CHARGING small fee to download Hey, I am out in the boonies on a Pacific Island too, but I am only 200 miles from Redmond as the crow flies. You can order a CD for $7.50- $10 AUD and a one week turnaround. You don't have access to phone upload, satellite download ? or even two-way satellite from BigPond? Their coverage footprint should go that far north. Hughes covers US, Hawaii, Mexico and parts of Canada You would get 512k/256k speeds for what you are paying. Or is there some other policy or installation glitch? http://my.bigpond.com/internetplans/broadband/satellite/2_way_plans/default. jsp Stuart McLachlan wrote: >On 29 Jul 2006 at 10:59, MartyConnelly wrote: > > > >>For you starving students out there. >> >>Woodyswatch has stated that there will be a $1.50 fee to download >>each of the Office 2007 Betas starting 6PM PST Aug 2. >> >> > >Big deal.... > > > >>The downloads are between 500MB for Office to 250MB for MS Project >> >> > >That would cost me between $150 and $75 in download charges. What's another >$1.50? > >And it would be twice as much if I, like most people in PNG, was using dial- >up and also paying phone connection charges (I'm one of "lucky" ones who >can get a 128Kb radiolink for only $200 per month - plus of course the >$0.30 per Mb ) > > > > > > > -- Marty Connelly Victoria, B.C. Canada -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com