I'm in a similar situation except that I am trying to connect about 150 households scattered over about 400 acres. We have some bucks set aside for community infrastructure and some strong interest in getting wired.
Wireless can work in some limited areas but in general the terrain is too wooded for wireless to do much good.
The cable provider stops a couple of miles away and wants megabucks to bring it to even one house.
The local DSL folks say we are too far away from the CO to do any good.
Getting a T-1 is doable. The cost is small enough that if we could get as few as 10 folks wired, it would work.
I've been wondering about ethernet line drivers, shorth haul modems, other (than 802.11b) wireless options. Any suggestions welcome.
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I'm in a similar situation except that I am trying to connect about 150 households scattered over about 400 acres. We have some bucks set aside for community infrastructure and some strong interest in getting wired.
Wireless can work in some limited areas but in general the terrain is too wooded for wireless to do much good.
The cable provider stops a couple of miles away and wants megabucks to bring it to even one house.
The local DSL folks say we are too far away from the CO to do any good.
Getting a T-1 is doable. The cost is small enough that if we could get as few as 10 folks wired, it would work.
I've been wondering about ethernet line drivers, shorth haul modems, other (than 802.11b) wireless options. Any suggestions welcome.