On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, Toby Corkindale wrote:
On 11/07/12 11:30, Lindsay Sprinter wrote:
For normal intenet access the service is great for any large downloads its WAY to expensive. For these I go into town to the intenet cafe, one can get 4 gig for 3 dollars there AND its fast, I can get 700 meg bytes (1 debian CD) in around 9 minutes. You can get the first 7 which is usually all one needs in around an hour.
If there's reasonable access in town, maybe you could try something a former colleague managed.. he set up a kind of bucket chain of wifi links out from the edge of the town to his rural property.
With directional antennas and line-of-sight you can get long distances, so not too many nodes are required. Just need a few windmills, silos or comms towers to attach 'em to.
I looked into this sometime back, the problem is no way is there a line of site and to get line of site would not really be feasable not to say way to expensive. Security did not appear to be an issue as the radio link itself can be encrypted and all I talked to said this was OK. The current setup does what I need (Note 1) although I would say most would find it to restrictve. Rememeber this is a rural area, there is plenty to do outside one is not forced by population pressure to stay inside. Lindsay Note 1: Even getting Debian now is no longer an issue as I can download the CD's from the cafe.