How a Group of Rural Washington Neighbors Created Their Own Internet Service (arstechnica.com)

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 1, 2015 @10:40AM from the point-to-point-to-point dept.

An anonymous reader writes with a story that might warm the hearts of anyone just outside the service area of a decent internet provider: Faced with a local ISP that couldn't provide modern broadband, Orcas Island residents designed their own network and built it themselves. The nonprofit Doe Bay Internet Users Association (DBIUA), founded by [friends Chris Brems and Chris Sutton], and a few friends, now provide Internet service to a portion of the island. It's a wireless network with radios installed on trees and houses in the Doe Bay portion of Orcas Island. Those radios get signals from radios on top of a water tower, which in turn receive a signal from a microwave tower across the water in Mount Vernon, Washington.

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Re:Lightning? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-01 12:08 · Score: 2, Funny

If you think that it takes longer to melt copper than it does for a catastrophic potential to develop over 100ft with the energy travelling via the conductor at a significant portion of the speed of light then...
Your lesson is that a layman trying to be an Electrical Engineer on the internet is doomed to fail.
P.S. "lightning"