The nights of Baghdad
The nights have come again. The beautiful 40-degree Baghdad nights. The nights that carried me through October and November, that made me wish for a full weekend off so I could enjoy insomnia under the stars
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Um... you're going to have to get me drunk first. Really drunk.
I have a technical question that you might have some thoughts on. My sister is moving to a large piece of land in a tiny town in Southern Oregon and the nearest broadband is about 17 miles away. There are satellite options available domestically, such as Starband, but we are beginning to talk about what would be necessary to create a rural wifi network that all the locals in this small town of about 700 people can use -- it could be set up like a small business or coop.
Now, she has a hill on her property. I was thinking that if she wanted enough bandwidth to support many users, she could hook up some kind of tranceiver on an aerial that could connect with the Douglas FastNet ( http://www.douglasfast.net/ ), a coop that *wants* to connect rural Oregon via broadband.
Do you have any thoughts on the feasibility of this plan, ideas on how to improve it or what kind of technology would be better / less laggy... or any ideas on how you would flesh out the idea and turn it into a friendly little local ISP?
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From my experience here, I believe WiFi is a trap, a money pit into which fools dump their money believing they can actually run a business selling internet over it.
Running it as a cooperative is possible. Can-tenna to FastNet if the distance isn't too far, then use a local repeater system. However, don't think this means you can sit down with a laptop anywhere. Such a system still requires local base stations that can communicate over the Point-to-Multipoint link that covers the town, then has conventional 802.11b/g access points for normal PC cards.
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