[TriLUG] Wireless access

[Jon Carnes]

But certainly enough to afford a Yagi setup pointing to a host five
miles away that *can* get dsl from Speakeasy.net.

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 22:45, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> But remember he still needs to have a connection for the Internet uplink.  
> With Speakeasy DSL out of the question, due to distance from the CO, what 
> other options would there be?   Five neighbors is still way too few to 
> cover the cost of a T1.
> 
> --Jeremy
> 
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Brad Oaks wrote:
> 
> > I forwarded the initial message in this thread to a Bahamian friend, and 
> > he suggested folks might look into this neighborhood wireless solution 
> > by motorola:
> > 
> > www.motorola.com/canopy
> > 
> > range is either up to 2 miles or up to 10 miles depending on setup.
> > 
> > --bradoaks
> > 
> > Jon Carnes wrote:
> > 
> > >You might want to ask around at the neighbors and see what the interest
> > >level is.  It wouldn't take more than about 5 close-by folks to make it
> > >worth the cost of setting up your own Community Access Point.
> > >
> > >And if there was a nearby school, you might be able to get them involved
> > >as well.
> > >
> > >Jon Carnes
> > >
> > >On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 14:27, Ron Joffe wrote:
> > >  
> > >
> > >>On Monday 22 September 2003 12:14 pm, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >>>on.  Maybe with that high location, you could become an access point for
> > >>>one... :-)
> > >>>      
> > >>>
> > >>Jeremy,
> > >>
> > >>We had actually looked at that last year, but because of the location, the T1 
> > >>charges were a bit high. Add to that the relatively sparse population up 
> > >>there, and it was hard to justify.
> > >>
> > >>Ron
> > >>
> > >> 
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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