[BC] Disaster planning

[Tom Spencer]

No roof access...

There's an off-chance I could get to the overhang - but that's not high 
enough to get over the trees; I could hit a good WiFi node that's about 
a mile away - IF I could get around the silly trees....

<sigh>

There's a semi-abandoned telco cable out front on poles - IF I could get 
on top of one of those, I MIGHT be able to hit the node...

Not over the trees, but I think I'd be out from behind them...

I'm currently setting it up on the sidewalk using a camera tripod - and 
the signal is somewhat marginal, at best - I've found that I need what 
teh software says is > 50% signal strength to get a reliable link.

Plus, WiFi seems to be about half the full 100 mb of a LAN Ethernet.

Chris Gebhardt wrote:
> Tom Spencer wrote:
>   
>> That's what I've been looking at - only, Telco and Cable share the poles....
>>
>> I've got a high - gain WiFi link available, but the problem there is 
>> finding a hub to link in to... that's on a different feeder.
>>
>> And getting the 2.4 GHz antenna above the trees.....
>>
>> (Landlord doesn't want holes in his vinyl siding...)
>>     
>
> Do you have access to the roof, Tom?   You may be able to do some 
> non-penetrating mount.   Or fashion something that closes in a window or 
> some such thing.
>
> Landlords are why we bought our building.  ;)

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Tom Spencer
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