[ale] broadband suggestions

[George L. Allen]

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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