getwilde wrote:
> Peter Pan wrote:
>> getwilde wrote:
>>> I've climbed mountains, pulled elevation plots, dug 200+ feet of
>>> trench, run power and cable, employed step-up and step-down
>>> tranformers, bought and built antennas, erected tripods/towers, and
>>> more, all in a quest for high-speed Internet at my home, in the
>>> mountains, on a shoestring budget.
>>>
>>
>> The mountains where? I used skynet of spokane in northern idaho..
>> Apparently they are also in many many other places.. See the map at
>> http://www.onelasvegas.com/wireless/ID.html
>
> In the Rockies of Northern Utah. Thanks for the tip on this WISP. I
> called nearly a dozen WISPs in this area, and none of them service my
> area. We're deep in a canyon, so this homebrew solution was the best
> I'm able to come up with. (Also looked at satellite, but latency is
> way too high to do VoIP, gaming, etc.)

The way I found out who was in the area was talk to the people at the local
high school.. Seems most have internet for the students.. They told me about
one they used privately, that the public part was in beta, and I was able to
glom onto it before it went public...

One of the locals built a solar power repeater (actually two, one was for
cell service in his valley, another for wifi)

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