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Date:  Tue, 16 Aug 83 11:52:29 -0500
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From:  "R. Geoffrey Newbury" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  "os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Subject: [OS2Wireless] OT satelite broadband

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:16:21 -0700, Neil Waldhauer wrote:

>On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:08:15 -0600, Andy Willis <abwillis@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I know this is not specific to wireless but I am moving, most likely to 
>> where I can't get cable or dsl, and am looking at satellite as an 
>> option.  Is there any that will work with OS/2?
>
>I don't know the name of the service, which is only to ISP anyway, but my
>sister lives pretty far out in the woods. Like beyond the reach of electricity,
>although she does have telephone.
>
>A geeky friend of hers who lives on a mountaintop, bought the service, which is
>a high speed (possibly microwave?) service. He resells it and beams it down to
>her house, about 3/4 mile over a deep ravine. She's getting about 1.5 Mb/s both
>up and down. He's got most of people within a mile and a half hooked up. That
>isn't very many people. You need direct line of site from his antenna to your
>antenna, then it goes to a typical router, so it doesn't matter what Operating
>system you use after that.

This sounds like the 'local geek' is using something like wifi to allow
everyone access to a single high speed connection. Almost like using your
wireless card to tap into your neighbours lan+dsl system.

Check out www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz for a neat site setting out on
professor's adventures in making parabolic antennae for usb wifi dongles
and talking to live access points over amazing distances.

Geoff

R. Geoffrey Newbury                          newbury@mandamus.org
Barrister and Solicitor                         Telephone: 905-271-9600                 
Mississauga,Ontario, Canada              Facsimile:   905-271-1638

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