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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."
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The kids don't need to Play Quake or Half Life @ school(well I do but thats another subject :-))
I think you need to take a closer look at RFC 1149 the Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol (CPIP). According to this site Pigeons can fly 40-50 Miles per hour, so that would give you about 2 hours per webpage. I would reccomend some major caching servers on the school end. Also it would be a good Idea to invest in a Pigeon farm, this would also give your students great expereince in farm managment.
Another idea is to break some standards and perhaps use an UDP tunnel betweent he sites on your pigeons to make sure you don't have to do all the tcp handshake stuff. O yeah.. .perhaps using larger packet sizes would be a good idea too.