Internet through DTV

[Kendrick-LUG]

kurt at verruckt.org wrote:

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>From: "Greg Kedrovsky" <greg at iglesia-del-este.com>
>To: "Jonathan Hutchins" <hutchins at tarcanfel.org>; "kclug" <kclug at kclug.org>
>Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 11:45 AM
>Subject: Re: Internet through DTV
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>>On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:47:49AM -0600, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
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>>>Of course, if you are in line-of-sight with any location where you might
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>>>able to get a decent connection, you can set up a wireless link to relay
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>>>to your location.
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>>Ooo... that's another idea. What kind of wireless? How far do I have?
>>What kind of hardware do I need? I'm up on top of a mountain. I have
>>line-of-site to over half the city, and some of my friends live in
>>sight, also. I keep showing them rifle, and reminding them of my
>>training in the U.S. Marine Corps.  :-)  It's perfect: high ground,
>>line-of-site.
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>>So, I could hook up one of my friends with cable modumb (our "broadband"
>>down here) and then share with him, getting my link via the wireless? Is
>>that right?
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>>Cool.
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>>-gk
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>I read about a line of sight wireless connection that spanned several miles.
>The author used a discarded DTV dish, with a "cantenna" in place of the
>regular reciever. If you have line o' sight with someone in broadband area,
>that would be the way to go imo.
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bay areal lug...   linux wireless network in sieattle  baywulg?  has 
some of that kinda stuff  mostly yaggie antenas but i beleve they tryed 
some others to  alot of info on wireless stuf though