Re: Sat Dish services comments requested

From: Jeff Liebermann (jeffl_at_comix.santa-cruz.ca.us)
Date: 08/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 10:06:25 -0700

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:53:13 -0400, "willjay" <willjay@excite.com>
wrote:

>Well, that explains it. I was hoping a more expensive dish would do the
>trick. But I guess not. Right now my client is in a town with no internet.

Where is this place with no internet? I need a vacation and that
seems a good place to hide. If they don't have phones, cable, or TV,
that sould be a bonus.

>They cannot even get a T1 installed as the local phone company has made is
>too costly for them. $18500 a year. It is a distance issue. Very rural
>area.

Ouch. I watched a friend lease space on the phone poles in rural east
Washington state to run some do it thyself SDSL. It worked well
enough until the county came along and went into the dark fiber
business. Can your client lease space on the poles and run his own
fiber?

>They have some sort of antenna on their building that is using packet
>radio to deliver internet to them. Some local isp type guy has capitalized
>on this lack of a cable or bell system and configured a system some how that
>communicates from a town about 20 miles away with some sort of shortwave or
>something. Not exactly sure how it is working. Never seen this technology
>anywhere else. It works great 90% of the time but the other 10% experiences
>bandwidth latency and general poor service, not to mention that the guy will
>not call you back.

Sounds like 802.11a/b wireless or possibly licensed wireless run by a
WISP (Wireless ISP). It works well enough in rural areas where
there's little interference. Recent priced drops in wireles bridges
has made it quite economical to build a wireless link. The problem is
that one leaky microwave oven, in a high location, can wipe out all
communications for miles. That's probably why it's down 10% of the
time. The rest would fog attenuation, interference from other users,
multipath, insects in the antennas, birds, etc. A 20 mile hop is a
big stretch for 802.11a/b and will probably continue to be unreliable.

If he doesn't call back, that means that either business is incredibly
good, or he's as lazy as I am. 

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Jeff Liebermann    jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us
150 Felker St #D   http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
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