You might contact SkyBeam out of Denver. They have been buying up most of the independent WISPs in my area. They seem to be expanding at a rapid rate. They currently rent my tower for one of their nodes. You might also look for a WISP mailing list to post the question on. I do not know what the most active one is currently. The WISP owners are always getting mad at each other and changing what list they subscribe to. Kenneth M. Chipps Ph.D. -----Original Message----- From: Christopher J. Pilkington [mailto:cjp@0x1.net] Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 12:05 PM To: Roy Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up. On Jun 11, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Roy wrote:

On 6/11/2011 4:29 PM, Christopher Pilkington wrote:

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Options seem to be limited to HughesNet and dial for the moment, but things may change if I put a tower on the property. HughesNet seems to relax it's bandwidth cap between 2am and 7am, which is helpful, but still a great shift from what I'm used to at the current residence (15/2).

No 3G cellphone service?

3G at this location is marginal at best (stand on a hill and hold the phone up above your head.) That said, are there 3G radios that permit external antennas or are well suited to being sealed up in a weatherproof box and being placed on a pole/tower? 3G would get us around the 200-300MiB/day issue, but I'm fairly certain I'll be dealing with similar monthly caps. I can really hope for a wISP nearby, but so far my research hasn't turned up anything. Is there some wISP marketplace/directory about? The final option would be to unofficially put hardware on the roof of my office 50km away with some high-gain antennas, but the path is marginally LOS, I think I might need a very large tower at either end. -cjp