On Fri, 13 Jul 2012, Toby Corkindale wrote:
On 13/07/12 16:12, Lindsay Sprinter wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, Toby Corkindale wrote:
On 11/07/12 11:30, Lindsay Sprinter weote: 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.
You mentioned before that you "use Virgin moble broadband using the 12gig for $149 plan."
What about getting a satellite connection? 9G for $35/month at 512kbps, or $100 for 15G at 1Mbps (based on the first provider I hit on google)
Thanks for the reply, Like all (most?) people I am limited with what I can do by personal choices. I do not have any kind of plastic money and I do NOT do direct debit. This is because I have had the unfortunate luck to have two of these go astray. The second being the killer as it involved alarge sum of money ($6000) and both financial institutions refused to believe a problem existed and it took over 4 months to correct a problem that was the fault of one of the said institutions. The whole exersize being a real eye opener and how these people work. This choice severely limits how I can work in to days society, but it does of course go with my general philosphy of life. Both ISP's I work with have counter staff and allow direct payment in cash, both ISP's some of the last of the rugged individualists. This of course suits me well. Running Linux now for 19 years, Lindsay