on 6/5/04 12:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 09:11 PM -0700 06/04/2004, J.S. Garrison wrote:The lines in this desert area are antiquated. Heat and sun tear up everything that sits out in them. There's DSL awaiting implementation, but it comes when enough population migrates. As there's not much other than cheap housing here, that'll be awhile.
hum. Is there any high-speed access available at all within a few miles of you? Take some work, but you could build a freenet - bridge> every few houses. Good neighbor type project.
Hee hee hee. There are 1,500 census-counted residents here. One in 50 has a computer online. My nearest neighbor is a 1/4 mile away. My nearest computer-literate neighbor is half a mile or more away.
Be a tough project......
Yea, but cool. :)
Give it a year. 802.16a WAPs are starting to ship. Your ISP can put one in, and cover the whole town. 70 Mbps, 30 mile range.
- Dan.
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