On 11/16/2010 2:59 PM, Michael Watterson wrote:
>    On 16/11/2010 18:35, Charles Craft wrote:
>   =20
>> Do you have a link to your wireless ISP?
>> What's the distance between your antenna and their end?
>>     =20
> 12.5km
>
> www.digiweb.ie
>   =20

That's pretty sweet - "The antenna is small and unobtrusive, effectively=20
a 12cm square plastic box."

Our carrier is 900 Mhz and I've got this beast on the roof. Better than=20
the lag with satellite. :-)
   http://sites.google.com/site/bubbasnmp2/157_5716_a.JPG
(the bottom antenna with the hardware cloth behind it is for OTA HD TV.)

>> On 11/16/2010 1:22 PM, Michael Watterson wrote:
>>     =20
>>> I gave away my 56K modem last year. . It spent a lot of time only doing
>>> 19K :(  Though when I had a Wireless Phone for a while it did 49k. Then
>>> the Wireless company went bust and I had to go back to copper pair. Not
>>> used it since Nov 2005 for Internet when I got in a 10.6GHz DOCSIS over
>>> Microwave link. Cheaper than phone line and gives 8M down/1M up + 2 x
>>> real phone numbers using QOS VLAN to the ISPs own PSTN gateway. The QOS
>>> and codec is good enough that my Fax works on it.
>>>
>>>
>>>       =20
>   =20

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