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2.5km down the valley in the Melkevol reception/cafe a PC was connected to the internet.

It uses a small low power PC (mini-ITX) running Linux, with a radio modem running PPP so the base can connect whenever it want to send files. It backs up everything on disk and sends daily data to Southampton each night - initially over an ISDN dial-up, then over broadband. Originally it had a dGPS on the roof as well. It also had a backup weather station. An "ssh tunnel" allowed us to login to the PC any morning and hence connect up to the glacier when the base station was awake.