Wireless over 10+ miles (Mr. Bandel?)

[Bob Hemus]

On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 17:06 -0700, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > With my recent change of jobs, I have higher demand for fast Internet speeds. 
> > I live in the boonies so DSL and Cable are not an option (ok, so the n00b 
> > CAble salesman thinks they can get me hooked up on 10/18, but let's be real) 
> > at&t just rejected my T1 purchase order (after making me wait a month for the 
> > estimate).  I'd like to consider paying someone else for their broadband, and 
> > using point-to-point wireless to bring me the last few miles.
> >
> > My initial plans are two of the following:
> > * WRT-54GL running OpenWRT (the full-featured Linux codebase)
> > * High-gain Yagi antenna set on a 30-ft antenna tower (get over trees/stuff)
> >
> > (David in particular)
> > Would you recommend using the above setup (I already have the routers), or do 
> > you recommend some other hardware to handle the wireless portion?
> >
> > This is going to happen relatively soon, so any input would be valued.
> >   
> 
> These solutions seem pretty expensive. My boss uses a Verizonwireless 
> card, good speed, and I think you can hook up a router somehow (at least 
> I saw a picture of that on the web). The national access plan is not 
> cheap, but might be a better option than putting in a big tower antenna.
> _______________________________________________
You might talk to the local network TV station engineers.  They help
folks with translator installations, etc. and there must be gobs of old
towers around.  Also, if you have access to the local State
highway/patrol engineers.  They may have used stuff they may want to
give away just to get rid of it.  There was a bunch of towers here in
Happy Camp last spring-summer.  They were trying to give 'em away to
keep from taking them to the dump.
Bob