But certainly enough to afford a Yagi setup pointing to a host five miles away that *can* get dsl from Speakeasy.net.
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 22:45, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > But remember he still needs to have a connection for the Internet uplink. > With Speakeasy DSL out of the question, due to distance from the CO, what > other options would there be? Five neighbors is still way too few to > cover the cost of a T1. > > --Jeremy > > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Brad Oaks wrote: > > > I forwarded the initial message in this thread to a Bahamian friend, and > > he suggested folks might look into this neighborhood wireless solution > > by motorola: > > > > www.motorola.com/canopy > > > > range is either up to 2 miles or up to 10 miles depending on setup. > > > > --bradoaks > > > > Jon Carnes wrote: > > > > >You might want to ask around at the neighbors and see what the interest > > >level is. It wouldn't take more than about 5 close-by folks to make it > > >worth the cost of setting up your own Community Access Point. > > > > > >And if there was a nearby school, you might be able to get them involved > > >as well. > > > > > >Jon Carnes > > > > > >On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 14:27, Ron Joffe wrote: > > > > > > > > >>On Monday 22 September 2003 12:14 pm, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > > >> > > >> > > >>>on. Maybe with that high location, you could become an access point for > > >>>one... :-) > > >>> > > >>> > > >>Jeremy, > > >> > > >>We had actually looked at that last year, but because of the location, the T1 > > >>charges were a bit high. Add to that the relatively sparse population up > > >>there, and it was hard to justify. > > >> > > >>Ron > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ > | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | > | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | > \---------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
