Dear technical people, esp michuki, mctim, and Jean given that Egypt, and now Libya have cut off Internet access, would it be possible to invest in VSATs in order to get some limited internet access via sattelite? Obviously, this will not help egyptian sites, but may allow access to sites based in the US? Please advise. Rigia -- Dr. Warigia Bowman Visiting Assistant Professor American University in Cairo Global Affairs and Public Policy (office)(202)2615-4346 (cell) (201)05590948 warigia@aucegypt.edu
yes, the only way to shut off a vsat is to go to the site and physically shut it down. Egypt is back online tho. What folk there did is dial in to eu dialup numbers set up by eu folk for just this purpose. ThePOTS system was working in egypt, when mobile and internet was cut off. Rgds, mctim On 2/25/11, warigia bowman <warigia@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear technical people, esp michuki, mctim, and Jean
given that Egypt, and now Libya have cut off Internet access, would it be possible to invest in VSATs in order to get some limited internet access via sattelite? Obviously, this will not help egyptian sites, but may allow access to sites based in the US?
Please advise.
Rigia
-- Dr. Warigia Bowman Visiting Assistant Professor American University in Cairo Global Affairs and Public Policy (office)(202)2615-4346 (cell) (201)05590948 warigia@aucegypt.edu
-- Sent from my mobile device Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
Hi, Mc Tim I am in Cairo, so I know it is back online. However, I will point out that the POTS system was only working INSIDE EGYPT during the revolution. You could not make an international call from a landline, only from a mobile. "Egypt is back online tho. What folk there did is dial in to eu dialup numbers set up by eu folk for just this purpose" This info is very helpful. Rigia On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:55 PM, McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com> wrote:
yes, the only way to shut off a vsat is to go to the site and physically shut it down. Egypt is back online tho. What folk there did is dial in to eu dialup numbers set up by eu folk for just this purpose. ThePOTS system was working in egypt, when mobile and internet was cut off. Rgds, mctim
On 2/25/11, warigia bowman <warigia@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear technical people, esp michuki, mctim, and Jean
given that Egypt, and now Libya have cut off Internet access, would it be possible to invest in VSATs in order to get some limited internet access via sattelite? Obviously, this will not help egyptian sites, but may allow access to sites based in the US?
Please advise.
Rigia
-- Dr. Warigia Bowman Visiting Assistant Professor American University in Cairo Global Affairs and Public Policy (office)(202)2615-4346 (cell) (201)05590948 warigia@aucegypt.edu
-- Sent from my mobile device
Cheers,
McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
-- Dr. Warigia Bowman Visiting Assistant Professor American University in Cairo Global Affairs and Public Policy (office)(202)2615-4346 (cell) (201)05590948 warigia@aucegypt.edu
McTim, do you have a name I can cite you by as a source? On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:55 PM, McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com> wrote:
yes, the only way to shut off a vsat is to go to the site and physically shut it down. Egypt is back online tho. What folk there did is dial in to eu dialup numbers set up by eu folk for just this purpose. ThePOTS system was working in egypt, when mobile and internet was cut off. Rgds, mctim
On 2/25/11, warigia bowman <warigia@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear technical people, esp michuki, mctim, and Jean
given that Egypt, and now Libya have cut off Internet access, would it be possible to invest in VSATs in order to get some limited internet access via sattelite? Obviously, this will not help egyptian sites, but may allow access to sites based in the US?
Please advise.
Rigia
-- Dr. Warigia Bowman Visiting Assistant Professor American University in Cairo Global Affairs and Public Policy (office)(202)2615-4346 (cell) (201)05590948 warigia@aucegypt.edu
-- Sent from my mobile device
Cheers,
McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
-- Dr. Warigia Bowman Visiting Assistant Professor American University in Cairo Global Affairs and Public Policy (office)(202)2615-4346 (cell) (201)05590948 warigia@aucegypt.edu
Hi, On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:49 PM, warigia bowman <warigia@gmail.com> wrote:
McTim, do you have a name I can cite you by as a source?
Certainly, Timothy McGinnis is the name on my passport, but even in Egypt, all the Ministry guys and ISP staff who know me only know the "McTim" brand ;-) BTW, most of these stories are about dialin to EU providers during the Internet shut off...was it all vaporware? http://www.google.co.ke/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=egypt+interent+dialin
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:55 PM, McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com> wrote:
yes, the only way to shut off a vsat is to go to the site and physically shut it down. Egypt is back online tho. What folk there did is dial in to eu dialup numbers set up by eu folk for just this purpose. ThePOTS system was working in egypt, when mobile and internet was cut off. Rgds, mctim
On 2/25/11, warigia bowman <warigia@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear technical people, esp michuki, mctim, and Jean
given that Egypt, and now Libya have cut off Internet access, would it be possible to invest in VSATs in order to get some limited internet access via sattelite? Obviously, this will not help egyptian sites, but may allow access to sites based in the US?
Please advise.
Rigia
-- Dr. Warigia Bowman Visiting Assistant Professor American University in Cairo Global Affairs and Public Policy (office)(202)2615-4346 (cell) (201)05590948 warigia@aucegypt.edu
-- Sent from my mobile device
Cheers,
McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
-- Dr. Warigia Bowman Visiting Assistant Professor American University in Cairo Global Affairs and Public Policy (office)(202)2615-4346 (cell) (201)05590948 warigia@aucegypt.edu
-- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
Hi Tim I am trying to get a piece published in the cairo review, and wanted to cite you. anyway, I don't know what vaporware is. what I know is that we were so busy obeying the curfew, and trying not to get robbed, that we did not even try to get online. But I am not a hard core techno geek. I will ask our IT staff for you, okay? Rigia On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:27 PM, McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:49 PM, warigia bowman <warigia@gmail.com> wrote:
McTim, do you have a name I can cite you by as a source?
Certainly, Timothy McGinnis is the name on my passport, but even in Egypt, all the Ministry guys and ISP staff who know me only know the "McTim" brand ;-)
BTW, most of these stories are about dialin to EU providers during the Internet shut off...was it all vaporware?
http://www.google.co.ke/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=egypt+interent+dialin
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:55 PM, McTim <dogwallah@gmail.com> wrote:
yes, the only way to shut off a vsat is to go to the site and physically shut it down. Egypt is back online tho. What folk there did is dial in to eu dialup numbers set up by eu folk for just this purpose. ThePOTS system was working in egypt, when mobile and internet was cut off. Rgds, mctim
On 2/25/11, warigia bowman <warigia@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear technical people, esp michuki, mctim, and Jean
given that Egypt, and now Libya have cut off Internet access, would it be possible to invest in VSATs in order to get some limited internet
access
via sattelite? Obviously, this will not help egyptian sites, but may allow access to sites based in the US?
Please advise.
Rigia
-- Dr. Warigia Bowman Visiting Assistant Professor American University in Cairo Global Affairs and Public Policy (office)(202)2615-4346 (cell) (201)05590948 warigia@aucegypt.edu
-- Sent from my mobile device
Cheers,
McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
-- Dr. Warigia Bowman Visiting Assistant Professor American University in Cairo Global Affairs and Public Policy (office)(202)2615-4346 (cell) (201)05590948 warigia@aucegypt.edu
-- Cheers,
McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel
-- Dr. Warigia Bowman Visiting Assistant Professor American University in Cairo Global Affairs and Public Policy (office)(202)2615-4346 (cell) (201)05590948 warigia@aucegypt.edu
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