This isn't an Entourage post per se, but since installing this setup a year ago, I've wanted to share it with this group, in the event that there are others out there wanting to get off dialup.
We bought a house in the country 7 miles outside of town 4 years ago, making sure that it had Sprint's "line of site" to the microwave tower broadband that they were doing then. Three months later, Sprint's system went kaput. Nothing else was available. Tried satellite, but oh was it a pain. Finally called a neighbor, about .6 miles away (I can see his roof). He was also looking for a fast Net solution. We tried cajoling ATT to run their cable by our street (even willing to pay for the whole thing, even mentioning $10k, etc.) to no avail. We finally found our solution a month later: company called ydi.com had a 2-mile wireless antenna called EtherAnt II. My neighbor contacted a farmer about 1 mile from his house (he could see his roof) who lived on a road that had access to ATT's cable broadband. We told him: "we'll give you a computer (an old Pentium my neighbor had) and pay for your cable connection if you let us place this 2 lb. 15" x 15" x 1" antennae (the EtherAnt II) on your barn wall and point it towards my neighbor's house. My neighbor, in turn, pointed another antenna towards my house where my own EtherAnt II collected the signal. That was a year ago. It's a thing of beauty. Even better, these EtherAnt II antennae are now on eBay, for a fraction of what we paid. I don't know how it all works (my neighbor being the computer geek) but I do know that I, being on the end of the chain, still usually get the advertised speed (about 1.3 down and 380 up). Regarding legality: good question. I'm guessing that if we called ATT and told them that their farmer customer wasn't really the customer, but two other homes were, they'd make us pull the system. Then again, they're getting a $79 monthly payment that they'd otherwise never have gotten. You'll have to weigh this one yourself. Hope this helps someone in this group, or someone you know in a similar bind. ********************** G5 2ghz/ 1.5G RAM/ Panther G4 867Mhz 12" Powerbook 2 mile WiFi T1broadband connected to the neighbor via EtherAnt II -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
