RE: [MLUG] High Speed Wireless Internet + (My Question to MLUG)

[Nate K <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

We have a range of about 7 or 8 miles.  We run one
parabolic antenna about 40 feet high.  And the client
has a small flat panel antenna mounted on her tv
antenna on the roof.  59.95 for 256Kbps and 79.95 for
384Kbps.  It is a great deal and weather really
doesn't effect it that much.  But terrain is another
topic.  That is where we have had most of our
hardships.  Being in the valley and the surrounding
hills block signal.   

there are ways to get around this such as using
outdoor routers with directional antennas. A COR will
sit at the home base.  Then you will have RORS all
over picking up signal and firing it back to the COR. 
and the RORS rebroadcasting to clients.  But the AP
that has this functionality is $1200, and you would
have to buy one every time you placed a ROR.


Nate Kettlewell


--- Rick Buford <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> I would agree with the arguments that this is
> probably not the best "first
> business", but the idea has merit. What about
> starting small? Say, cover
> downtown? Mebbe link/compliment MU's wirless into
> the mix. If the idea
> catches on, expand from there...
> 
> Rick 
> It's never too late for a happy childhood - Gloria
> Steinem
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]On Behalf Of
> Ian Scott
> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 7:31 PM
> To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> Subject: Re: [MLUG] High Speed Wireless Internet +
> (My Question to MLUG)
> 
> 
> At 06:52 PM 11/11/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> > > I have been watching this topic and being quiet
> for
> > > too long.  I work for a small company that sells
> > > wireless ethernet to clients who are outside of
> the
> > > coverage area for DSL or Cable.  The technology
> is OK
> > > we went with the orinoco line of products. For
> AP's
> > > and cards.  But this stuff is REALLY expensive. 
> We
> > > are using a Parabolic antenna for ethernet.  And
> two
> > > directional antennas for Central Outdoor
> Routers.  And
> > > we are using (thanks to me) FreeBSD for network
> > > services and firewalling\Bandwidth managment. 
> It
> > > works great our first client is up and loving
> it.
> >What's the distance?  One or two miles?  Do you
> have to have a dish at the
> >client end?  What's the coverage area?  Monthly
> price?
> 
> This reminds me of WorkNet, which was a wireless
> provider in St. 
> Louis.  Notice the "was" part; they went bankrupt
> and are no more as far as 
> I can tell.  Their setup involved towers (the only
> one that I knew of for 
> sure was mounted atop the Metropolitan Square
> building, the tallest in St. 
> Louis) and a square antenna about 1 foot in diameter
> on the customer's 
> roof.  As long as you could get line of sight, range
> was about 20 miles.  I 
> don't remember exactly, but prices ranged from about
> $250 for 256kbps each 
> way up to probably $1k for 2Mbps.  I knew someone
> who had this service, and 
> the connection was suprisingly quite reliable, even
> in inclement weather.
> 
> In any case, if such a venture failed in St. Louis,
> I don't see Columbia 
> being much better.  I could be wrong, though.
> 
> Ian
> 
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