3 Jan
2007
3 Jan
'07
1:34 p.m.
John Foust wrote:
At 02:56 PM 1/2/2007, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
That's ok with one or two computers hanging off them. As soon as the
connection get anything like busy they will have problems. Consumer kit
just isn't designed for that kind of thing.
Gordon
Chuck Guzis wrote:
And far cheaper WiFi equipment could match the speed of the residential Internet
connection you'd likely want to pay for. (Maybe $600 total: two each of Senao
bridges, 29 dB mesh antenna, cables would reach 4-5 miles.) The easiest and
cheapest route is to ask the ISP how many subscribers they'd need to have in
your direction before they'd consider adding more equipment. Then go find
those customers for them. The maddening thing is that there's a local
wireless net provider here with excellent pricing. I can see their transmitter tower two
hills over from my window, but they nothing pointing in my direction nor do they plan to.
And cable doesn't exist out here in the boonies.
Rent a spot on the tower, and
provide your own feed. How far a path is it? A couple of Orthogon Geminis will give you
near-LOS connections up to around 20Mbps, for somewhere in the region of $6000.