Motorola has a product called Canopy, that has a range of 35 miles line of sight, with speeds of up to 20 Mbps. It is pretty costly though, and you'd have to go in halfsies with someone who has broadband and is with in your line of sight.
Or you could do the same thing if you build a couple of Pringle cantennas, with wireless routers. Brian O' On Jan 27, 2005, at 1:37 PM, Rex Baldazo wrote: > I'm not certain if this is an option around here, but when I was living > near Berkeley in California some friends of mine had high-speed service > via microwave antenna. I think it was Sprint offering the service, > aimed at people up in the Berkeley hills who are too far from the > DSLAM's to get DSL service. They'd install this microwave antenna > pointed at some tower down at the base of the hills. Apparently when > it > worked it was pretty close to DSL speed. > > But it suffers the same problem as satellite, latencies were quite > noticeable. And it would always go out during any kind of electrical > storm. > > --- Rex. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Lee > Larson > Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 1:24 PM > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: Re: MacGroup: High speed access newbie > > On Jan 27, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Michael Robertson wrote: > >> I think broadband from a satellite company like Dish is still pretty >> expensive, last time I checked, around $120/month. > > The satellite connections are forever going to be impractical for most > people, even if their prices are comparable. This is because the > latency > caused by the time to get the signals to and from a satellite orbiting > 20,000 miles up is too long. > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January > | 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
