[olug] washingtonpost.com: 'Free' Wireless Networks?

[Dietz, John D.]

Anyway you guys to get this type of system to hit other area outside of
Omaha, such as Plattsmouth or Nebraska City?  lol

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Penne [mailto:epenne at yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 1:52 PM
To: olug at bstc.net
Subject: Re: [olug] washingtonpost.com: 'Free' Wireless Networks?


I notice the sentence where a skeptic says "it wasn't developed for
wide open spaces"  when in fact Lucent has a contract with a local
company in Lincoln to build antennas for just that.  When I worked
there they were looking at an 8dBi Omnidirectional (every way but up
and down) antenna and when coupled with another antenna that is
identical (I don't think there was an amplifier) they had good
reliability up to 6 miles away Line of sight.  If you plan on covering
a small village like my hometown of Belgrade it would work great.
Belgrade is only 1/2 mile by 1/2 mile in area and by putting a tower up
high enough you could even cover much of the local country side.  I
think I would still have to charge a monthly fee for use though.

I think I just talked myself into looking into this business prospect.
:)  If I can only get funding from my dad. lol

Eric


--- Chris Garrity <m0ntar3 at home.com> wrote:
>
> 	It's like around $800 to set up a relay tower, and you're asking a
> group that
> refuses to pay for their own software, or even rent a meeting hall.
> I'd like to
> see it happen, but then again I don't have the cash nor do I think
> I'd spend it
> if I did.
>
> Jay Woods wrote:
> >
> > Why can't we do something like this. ---Jay
> >
> >
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A41042-2000Dec7?language=printer
> >
> >
> >
> >
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