[BC] Sat Internet Service

[Tom Spencer]

If you can get within a few miles of the site, you can roll your own 
wireless, either on 2.4 or 5.8 GHz

Cost for a 2.4 GHz system would be on the order of $300 for the extra 
equipment, plus somewhere to put the modem and router (and power for 
same)...

Uses more-or-less off the shelf WiFi components, but instead of wimpy 
little antennas, they use Yagis.

I got one for USB (end-use link) and it works pretty good over about a 
three mile path, single-ended (standard WiFi antenna at the Hot Spot) 
using the PCV - boom version.

They claim up to 10 miles reliable over flat terrain.

I get about half-speed or a little better (~50 MBPS on a T-100 router); 
the software that comes with it will attempt to find the strongest 
signal and link in.

The wireless router:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Broadcast-Internet-from-Distant-Point-Using-this-COMBO_W0QQitemZ170392428070

The USB port adapter version

http://cgi.ebay.com/Wireless-Networking-802-11b-g-adaptor-Ultra-long-range_W0QQitemZ170392452112

(both of these are with the brass boom, rather than the PVC; the claim 
is the brass one works slightly better...)

The Seller:

http://stores.shop.ebay.com/InnovativeDevice__W0QQ_armrsZ1

HTH!

(PS:  there's also a different seller that has 5.8 GHz links that use 
dishes or panel antennas...)

Kevin C. Kidd CSRE/AMD wrote:
> Anyone using a satellite internet service for program streaming in/out
> to transmitter sites.
>
> I have a client that will be feeding a number of sites with IP audio but
> am finding that many have no DSL or cable service available.  I am not
> having much luck locating local wireless service either.
>
>   

-- 
Tom Spencer
PG-18-25453 (nee' P1-18-48841)
http://radioxtz.com/