Wireless over 10+ miles (Mr. Bandel?)

[Bruce Marshall]

On Thursday 12 October 2006 17:37, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> On Thursday 12 October 2006 13:51, David Bandel wrote:
> > More questions, just holler.
>
> Thanks David.  I knew I hollered at the right one on this
> (no offense to you, Bruce).  Let's see, thats....
>
> $330 * 2 for the WRAP boxen		= $660 + s/h
> $49.99 * 2 for the antennae		= $99.98 + s/h
> $39.99 * 2 for lightning prot.		= $79.98 + s/h
> $100 for antenna tower (ish?)		= $100

What kind of tower can you get for $100?   And at 60 ft, it has to be pretty 
substantial.   A neighbor up the hill from me has about a 25 or 30 
foot 'pipe' tower (made of sections of tv mast I suspect) but it appears like 
it would blow around in the wind and aiming would be a problem.

Just curious.

Any substantial tower will cost you about $75 per 10 foot section. plus guy 
wire plus assoc. hardware plus some kind of anchors for the guys.





> $??? for decent coax and ethernet cable
>
> Totalling roughly $1k, depending on how big the tower needs to be.  I'll
> shoot for 60 foot on my end, because I don't control the other end.
>
> Doable.  Not ideal, but it should work if needs be.  We'll see what makes
> sense after these cable folk give one last try.  This is at least
> improvement over "you live WHERE?"
>
> But I'd be willing to drop $2k to set up an affordable high-speed Internet
> connection.
>
> Do you notice any real latency using wireless at 22mi?
>
> Thanks again,
> Matt