Wanted - 45 Mile Wireless Broadband?

Slashbaby asks: "I am a net admin for a school division that doesn't have broadband Internet. We are a rural school division, so we don't even have a provider in any of our towns. What I am looking for is a way to get highspeed Internet access into our division through either RF or microwave. There is a city about 45 miles away, (max. distance) that has ISP's that would be willing to sell us bandwidth if we can find a way to get it the 45 miles to the schools."

"What I am looking for is either companies or websites that deal with this kind of technology. I have no idea what to really look for, so any help ideas would be appreciated. Our budget for this project would be ~$125 000 CND ($80 000 USD).

We are currently using Direct PC satellite (which is NOT broadband) Unfortunately, they are dropping us in 2003...they are dropping service for rural communities in order to expand service for government funded projects."

Comments

My $.02

[JoeLinux]

As an EE currently studying Hardware Communications, I'd say Fiber...with latencies in the picosecond range, It'd probably be your best bet...the only question is what kind of terrain do you have between here and there...Microwave might have too much latency. Your Return To Wolfenstein ping times would be HUGE! :)

JoeLinux

You have some options

[evilviper]

I don't see why you're stuck on microwave...

1. It's very very likely there is a cable company in the area (CableModems).
2. You certainly could get ISDN just about anywhere you are.
3. Two-way satelite goes EVERYWHERE.
4. Multiple dial-ups perform surprisingly well if the gateway is setup decently (approx. the same price as broadband per-bps).