I just emailed those Marines, hopefully they can help me find a vendor. Is a satellite connection something I can buy the equipment for and set up myself or am I really gonna need someone to come out here and bless it?
-ryan --- Dave Holmes-Kinsella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mostly ontopic-- check out how a batallion of marines did it: > http://www.36dish.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Ryan Marsh > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:19 AM > To: Curtis Doty > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [BAWUG] Building a wireless network in Iraq > > LOL, yah, I've got a cell phone here, and the service is great. It's > crazy > how technology still finds its way into the nooks and crannies of the > most > screwed up places on earth. Are there any wireless ISP's in Baghdad you > know of? We're still searching for a Satellite provider too, seems they > are > all afraid of making money. They move like molasses in January (to quote > my > Mother). > -- > Let us, then, be up and doing, > With a heart for any fate; > Still achieving, still pursuing, > Learn to labor and to wait. > -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow > On Jul 29, 2004, at 9:10 PM, Curtis Doty wrote: > > > Ryan Marsh wrote: > > > >> I'm putting together a wireless network for the guys in my company. > > > > Apologies for leading the topic astray, but you also might want to > > contact the author of this web log "where wanderlust leads ..." > > > > http://www.livejournal.com/users/giantlaser/ > > > > He's been living in Baghdad outside the Green Zone for a year now. And > > this has got to be one of my favorite all time install photos: > > > > http://www.tolaris.com/gallery/kurdistan/Kamiran_on_the_tower > > > > It's a shapshot taken of his employees as they install a wireless ISP > > in Mosul. The SEG on his face as they cling atop a tower (no OSHA > > climbing regs!) with the rural town and mosque in the background is > > great! > > > > ../C > > > > _______________________________________________ > BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] > http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > ===== Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow _______________________________________________ BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
