Well, I have a couple of ideas. You could set up a waterproof enclosure at teh end of your drive that Charter could put the cable modem in. You could power it with a 12 volt battery and solar cells. Or, if there is power available there, you could just power it normally.
Then you get two wireless access points and a pringles can antenna and do the same at your house. For the price of a battery, two access points, and solar cells, you can have broadband. Little bit of $ and time, but for me it would be worth it. I can't live without broadband nowadays. It would be like drug withdrawals if someone took mine away! Shannon On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 19:50, Chopin Cusachs wrote: > > The gravel road is my property. There are power poles and lines back > to very near the house. Don't know where the phone company plans > to put phone lines, on the power poles or under ground all the way. > > I do expect that DSL will reach us in probably no more than three > years. However it would be worth something to be able to get local TV > and broadband in the meantime. > > I don't know whether cable is legally a public utility or a franchised > monopoly. The power company can't possibly make enough on me > to justify the many poles and amounts of wire they have put it, but > as a public utility they are expected to do so. Likewise with the > telephone. I raised this question with my parish councilman. He > said to get back to him when the house is up. > > If all else fails I may see what it would cost to get DSL on a personal > line at my wife's office, in Covington. Could put a Linux box in the > closet there and depend on nobody else around there knowing how > to use it. > > Choppy > > At 09:04 AM 10/12/02 -0500, Shannon wrote: > >Choppy, > > > >How much are you willing to spend? Is the gravel road your property? > > > >There are a few ways I can think of to get the signal that far, but you > >may not want to spend that much... > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://host19.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
