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  1. peloblanco avatar

    RE: Mystery Shrouds Fate Of Cuba's Vaunted Internet Cable

    by peloblanco 24 May 2012

    Not wanting to bore non-techies to death, ac, but how is the satellite signal transmitted from the central dish to your house? It sounds…

  2. acanuck avatar

    Re: Mystery Shrouds Fate Of Cuba's Vaunted Internet Cable

    by acanuck 24 May 2012

    Pelo not that it matters to Cuba, but the upload speed is minimal for satellite service direct to home, but not for the system I described.…

  3. dmacarthur avatar

    RE: Advice for US folks to Cuba with no affiliations, just travel

    by dmacarthur 24 May 2012

    Hi Grizzly- most of the US citizens who post on this Forum simply go to Cuba through a third country as ttjpdo points out. Then we do…

  4. acanuck avatar

    Re: New Hints at Looser Rules on Travel Stir Hope in Cuba

    by acanuck 24 May 2012

    #7 I don't know if they have considered it, but one solution is to offer their professionals a standard of living better than what a tourist…

  5. vballf avatar

    Cuban travel and land line phones and Internet

    by vballf 24 May 2012

    I just got off the phone with my wife, who has been in Gerona for the last three weeks. Just came from a CDR meeting where everyone was…

  6. ttjpdo avatar

    RE: Place to visit for the last two days

    by ttjpdo 24 May 2012

    Vinales, for sure. It's only 3 or 3.5 hrs from Havana, easy to get to on a Conectando Cuba bus departing from Hotel Ingleterra in Habana…

  7. ttjpdo avatar

    RE: Advice for US folks to Cuba with no affiliations, just travel

    by ttjpdo 24 May 2012

    What a funny question! I don't know of anybody who ever joined something in order to visit Cuba. At least 75% of the foreign visitors…

  8. Altahabana avatar

    RE: New Hints at Looser Rules on Travel Stir Hope in Cuba

    by Altahabana 24 May 2012

    +*What in the world does the nytimes know about Cuba*+? Cuba's unique emigration laws for one thing because the writer described them…

  9. Kano_Jim avatar

    RE: We are overrun

    by Kano_Jim 24 May 2012

    >You don't think Williams is the same person as Cuba? Keineswegs, Vinny. When Cuba was posting from Germany, Williams was posting from…

  10. VinnyD avatar

    RE: We are overrun

    by VinnyD 24 May 2012

    You don't think Williams is the same person as Cuba?

  11. grizzlygul avatar

    Advice for US folks to Cuba with no affiliations, just travel

    by grizzlygul 24 May 2012

    Hi. My wife and I want to see Cuba and the Cuban people. We don't want to join anything. Anyone else out there who has done it? How is…

  12. Kano_Jim avatar

    RE: We are overrun

    by Kano_Jim 24 May 2012

    Chi, I don't think I ever claimed that; but even Williams has said that he thinks Cuba (& various other handles) is from Germany or Austria.…

  13. Rick01 avatar

    Re: New Hints at Looser Rules on Travel Stir Hope in Cuba

    by Rick01 24 May 2012

    Ditto Steve YYZ, Cubans can leave the island if they have a Visa or a letter of invitation from the destination country and that is the…

  14. Kano_Jim avatar

    RE: We are overrun

    by Kano_Jim 24 May 2012

    >That's like believing that Cuba is German Do you also doubt that I am an American?

  15. VinnyD avatar

    RE: We are overrun

    by VinnyD 24 May 2012

    #30-- You say that. If he were actually a Pakistani or a Muslim. That's like believing that Cuba is German or szil Christian. It's…

  16. peloblanco avatar

    RE: Mystery Shrouds Fate Of Cuba's Vaunted Internet Cable

    by peloblanco 24 May 2012

    I agree, ac, but satellite sucks when it comes to upload speeds. A hardwired cable, even copper, is far more preferable option. Another…

  17. peloblanco avatar

    RE: Internet for the Cubans people

    by peloblanco 24 May 2012

    +What it will change is the length of lines at ESTECA offices and perhaps in hotel business centres as well.+ I am still befuddled why…

  18. peloblanco avatar

    RE: How does censorship work on TTF?

    by peloblanco 24 May 2012

    That would be my call as well, Rosa. I don't want to see the forum overrun with ads, as it would probably be if there were not some form…

  19. ttjpdo avatar

    RE: 1st Time in Cuba: trip advice please

    by ttjpdo 24 May 2012

    Well, you could take two days getting from Havana to Vinales--first day, a 2-hr bus trip to Las Terrazas, where you could either stay…

  20. ttjpdo avatar

    RE: New Hints at Looser Rules on Travel Stir Hope in Cuba

    by ttjpdo 24 May 2012

    Acanuck, Cuba has good reason to have concerns about removing restrictions; including: 1-On the two or three occasions that Cuba DID…

  21. ttjpdo avatar

    RE: How does censorship work on TTF?

    by ttjpdo 24 May 2012

    Pelo, in response to your question, if I was Queen Moderator of TT's Cuba branch, I would delete nothing of a non-commercial nature that…

  22. marianonl avatar

    RE: where to find solo going

    by marianonl 24 May 2012

    Martee: I meant those losers from Western Europe and Australia who visit countries like Cuba and Thailand for a sex-hloliday. And indeed…

  23. dmacarthur avatar

    Re: Place to visit for the last two days

    by dmacarthur 24 May 2012

    Yup they're saying it pretty well- Havana is a great city! However, much of Cuba is rural, with a much slower lifestyle where people actuall…

  24. travellinglefty avatar

    RE: The

    by travellinglefty 24 May 2012

    Cuba is amazing, Brodes. You'll love it!

  25. acanuck avatar

    RE: Mystery Shrouds Fate Of Cuba's Vaunted Internet Cable

    by acanuck 24 May 2012

    Canada serves internet to the north and other remote towns not connected by fibre or microwave by satellite. It is handled by private…

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