[TriLUG] Wireless access

[Tanner Lovelace]

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Ron Joffe wrote:
| That doesn't leave them with any really usefull high speed internet
| connection. Now the one thing they do have going for them is that the house
| is at one of the highest points in the county. That should allow them to put
| up some kind of wireless connection (802.11).
|
| However the point is who or where to connect to?
|
| Anybody got any ideas?

You'll want to look into point-to-point connections, absolutely.
Be warned, though, that there are severe power restrictions on
unlicensed radio devices and the gain from an antenna is included
in those calculations.  If their signal interferes with anything,
for just about any reason, the FCC can and will order it shut down.

That said, I'd suggest looking at some of the back issues from
Robert Cringley at pbs.org. Specifically, try these ones:

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010628.html
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010712.html

Note that those columns were written 2 years ago so things might
have changed a bit, but they do describe exactly what you're
looking for.

Cheers,
Tanner
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