Cringley wrote about something similar in his column a few years back: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010628.html
> From: tuqqer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 09:29:04 -0600 > To: Entourage mac Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: How I got broadband two miles from the nearest broadband > > 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/> > -- 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/>
