They have the range to reach you - but you'd probably need a much larger
dish to hear them at that range (25 km?)  (think of the old satellite
dish at the motel on Sherbourne Street)

The dish (probably a wire "dish") would need to be aimed fairly well,
and possibly protected from the wind which can get somewhat blustery out
there.

Wind and rain will always make it worse than ideal atmospheric
conditions.  However you could look at using your 33.6 as a backup
route.

Everything is possible, if money is available.  Have you got any near
neighbours who want faster net access?  "Yuri's West Melton ISP" :-)  

On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 09:03, Yuri de Groot wrote:
> All this talk about bandwidth - I'm still stuck on 33k modem
> (internal ISA, real H/W)
> From the roof of my house in West Melton I can see Mt Sugarloaf
> in the port hills, where the walker wireless transmitter is, but
> they tell me it doesn't have the range to reach me ... yet.
> 
> The guy from ww said maybe april.
> 
> Anyone here got good or bad to say about walker wireless?
> Their website says it works with linux.
> 
> Thus spake Johnno on this Mon, 02 Dec 2002 :
> ] The old 300 Baud that was one of my fast modems on a comodore 64 then a
> ] 386, then went to 1200 baud, 2400 baud, 33.6 baud...
> ]
> ] Those was the good old bbs days.. :)
> ]
> ] Johnno


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