[141885] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yup; the Internet is screwed up.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Mon Jun 13 13:36:46 2011
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
In-Reply-To: <8898C635-E8B4-457F-83E0-C567128B8B83@0x1.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:36:23 -0700
To: "Christopher J. Pilkington" <cjp@0x1.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 12, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Christopher J. Pilkington wrote:
> On Jun 11, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Roy wrote:
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>> On 6/11/2011 4:29 PM, Christopher Pilkington wrote:
>>> Options seem to be limited to HughesNet and dial for the moment, but
>>> things may change if I put a tower on the property. HughesNet seems =
to
>>> relax it's bandwidth cap between 2am and 7am, which is helpful, but
>>> still a great shift from what I'm used to at the current residence
>>> (15/2).
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>>=20
>> No 3G cellphone service?
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> 3G at this location is marginal at best (stand on a hill and hold the =
phone up above your head.)
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> That said, are there 3G radios that permit external antennas or are =
well suited to
> being sealed up in a weatherproof box and being placed on a =
pole/tower?
there are... some specific to particular interface solutions.
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http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/access/wireless/hardware/notes/ant=
3gom.html
most expedient approach is a card with a non-fixes antenna (like the =
huawei usb sticks) a crc9 to sma adapter and the appropiate antenna. =
paired with a cradlepoint cpe and you're probably done for less than =
$200.
> 3G would get us around the 200-300MiB/day issue, but I'm fairly =
certain I'll be dealing with similar monthly caps. I can really hope =
for a wISP nearby, but so far my research hasn't turned up anything. Is =
there some wISP marketplace/directory about?
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> The final option would be to unofficially put hardware on the roof of =
my office 50km away with some high-gain antennas, but the path is =
marginally LOS, I think I might need a very large tower at either end.
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> -cjp
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