[ale] broadband suggestions

[Jim Kinney]

I'll take two of each!

300Mbps wireless looks like fun!

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:26 PM, George L. Allen<glallen01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wish I could play with these: http://www.rfcomm.harris.com/7800w/
> or these: http://www.motorola.com/Business/US-EN/Business+Product+and+Services/Wireless+Broadband+Networks/Point-to-Point+Bridges
>
> The propaganda says they can do a link upto 120 miles - which makes me wonder ...
> that's beyond line-of-sight, is it using tropo-scatter? not sure, but it happens
> to use the same freqs and distance limits as one of these:
> http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/equip/an-trc-170.htm
>
> On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 05:21:11PM -0400, David Ritchie wrote:
>> Mike beat me to it... Wimax may be your best bet, or one of the
>> wireless cards + a router to drive it (available at fry's for ~$200).
>>
>> All depends on where your church is... another option is HughesNet
>> (satillite), but the latency can be really bad (something about a
>> 44K link distance)...  Another option is to use a 802.11 bridge to a
>> remote location that has the connectivity... but trees
>> can be a problem, and you may realisticly need the antenna on a tower
>> or a church steeple...
>>
>> -- Dave
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