Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #2580

From:	"R. Geoffrey Newbury" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>	Full Headers Undecoded message
Sender:	os2-wireless_users-owner <os2-wireless_users-owner@2rosenthals.com>
Subject:	[OS2Wireless] OT satelite broadband
Date:	Tue, 16 Aug 83 11:52:29 -0500
To:	"os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to steward@2rosenthals.com with the command "unsubscribe os2-wireless_users" in the body (omit the quotes). For help with other commands, send a message to steward@2rosenthals.com with the command "help" in the body (omit the quotes). This list is hosted by Rosenthal & Rosenthal P.O. Box 281, Deer Park, NY 11729-0281. Non- electronic communications related to content contained in these messages should be directed to the above address. (CAN-SPAM Act of 2003) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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