[TriLUG] Wireless access

[Jeremy Portzer]

Hi Ron,

You may also wish to join the Triangle Wireless Users Group list at 
http://www.triwug.org/listinfo/triwug/

See the web site at http://www.triwug.org/ and IRC channel at #triwug, on 
irc.freenode.net.

So far TriWUG has been operating as a special interest group of TriLUG 
members, but we'd like to see folks from all operating system and 
backgrounds get involved.

To answer your question directly, there are various "wireless ISPs" 
cropping up in certain parts of the country.  I did some searching and 
didn't see any that cover Durham County.  But it's worth keeping an eye 
on.  Maybe with that high location, you could become an access point for 
one... :-)

--Jeremy

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Ron Joffe wrote:

> After all of the discussions about RR and wireless access, I have a question 
> for the group.
> 
> My folks live in northern Durham County (Bahama to be exact). They are too far 
> from the telco office for DSL, and no cable company has reached their street.
> 
> They have been using Satellite based connection, but that is really a pain. 
> The lag is horrendous, and the performance of the system has degraded over 
> the last few years (even though the signal strength has gone up) to the point 
> that dial up is almost as fast. Also Only Micro$oft OS's are supported by the 
> sattelite vendor.
> 
> 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?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ron
> 
> 
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