At 12/8/2004 12:40 PM, you wrote:
>Steve Rodgers wrote:
>
> >Nate,
> >
> >Why not use a full duplex RF link to your data center? That way you could
> >have "dumb" hardware at the site, and all your smarts at the data
> center. You
> >could also avoid paying for a DSL connection at the site as well.
> >
> >Steve
> >WA6ZFT
> >
> >
>Ah, a number of reasons.
>
>Commercial sites you pay by the antenna, but there's more often than not
>at least one TCP/IP pipe that someone already pays for at most
>commercial sites now that an appropriate deal can be made to ride along
>on, and some really fat shared pipes available at some.
>
>Simplicity - maintaining a cheap IAXy device (throw it away if it
>breaks) is better than messing with multiple link radios, feedlines,
>antennas, etc. Put the redundancy in the data network instead.
>
>Why? If you put your own IP pipes in, you can do other things with
>them... it's more "universally useful" than a dedicated link radio to do
>other "stuff" with at the sites... remote monitoring, reprogramming, run
>club servers, remote power switching, etc etc etc... and
>what-have-you... lots of uses only limited by imagination -- a dedicated
>link radio is a one-hit wonder.
...and if internet isn't available at the site, how about using 802.11b or
a to bring it in? I've yet with play with that stuff, but it sounds to me
like a pair of gain antennas at each end could get you a couple of miles to
where you would have wired internet access. Anyone try this?
Bob NO6B
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