On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote:
I saw this question posed on on the forums at AnandTech.com and would love to see if it is plausible.
Oh, quite.
Here is my question: What equipment could I use to do this? I found some stuff on cisco's site, but it costs about $8000. The speed does not have to be supper fast, but I would like to have something at least the speed of ISDN.
Cisco BR340's - they're $900/each, and work well in bridge mode. As someone already stated, make sure you get some good high-gain (and narrow-beam directional - we use 10 degree yagi) antenna's.
Is this plausible. Is there any technology out there that uses public spectrum over a 6 mile distance ?
With line of sight, they claim they can go 9+ miles. Of course, weather does affect it - one of our spans tends to go down when there's just the right kind of heavy rain. Theoretic speed is 11Mbit/sec - effective (real) speed is about 6Mbit/sec. (YMMV, that's on a 1/2 mile span) -- Dominic J. Eidson "Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!" - Gimli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.the-infinite.org/ http://www.the-infinite.org/~dominic/