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 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.
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)