anybody have experience with this outfit?

[Matthew Carpenter]

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Aside from obvious cost concerns, I'd buy into the WiFi/WiMax solution.
Make friends with someone with broadband and work out an arrangement
with them for a wireless bridge.  The wireless part could be handled by
a Linux box so long as the wireless card could handle and antenna, or
you can use some inexpensive commercial equipment.  David's suggestions
are better if you have the money, but then there we are.

You're still subject to weather, but that would be true of satellite as
well (and perhaps moreso).


David Bandel wrote:
| On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:45:39 -0500, dep <dep at linuxandmain.com> wrote:
|
|>http://www.direcway.com
|>
|>i'm contemplating a move to a place where there's no cable, no dsl. this
|>appears to be the lone alternative. almost sounds too good to be true.
|>anybody know about these guys?
|
|
| Well, I know that satellite is going to be slow and unreliable
| (particularly in areas with heavy rains).
|
| What I would do:  do a line-of-site survey to see where I could see
| (including, if I had to, from a 50' tower).  Get good signal put in
| where I could see and buy a pair of good point-to-point radios in the
| 5.8GHz range (something like the Wi-Lan Ultima3-ER radios).  These
| radios can provide signal with the long range antennas up to 47 miles
| (75 km) with good throughput (like 10Mb, same as ethernet).
|
| You can get good towers from Texas Towers (crankups if you don't want
| to climb).  To do my 50' survey, I'd just hire a high-lift bucket
| truck (here they run me $100/hr, probably a little more where you
| are).
|
| Ultima3 radios will run about $2200 for each point on a
| point-to-point, but are reliable (make sure you get good lightning
| protection installed).
|
| Ciao,
|
| David A. Bandel

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