2 Mar
2020
2 Mar
'20
7:10 p.m.
On 3/2/20 1:06 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
Line of sight reminds me of another crazy idea I once
heard about.
On one side of a valley in a highly wooded rural area, a technical
writer was highly desirous of broadband, yet none was to be had.? Whaay
away, on another side, broadband was available.? So what he did was find
somebody over there who could get broadband and offered to pay the
service.? Then he got a pair of access points (AP's) and set them up as
'repeaters'.? This is the cool part: he connected the AP's to some
pretty awesome yagi's.
Bingo.? Broadband.? I thought this was a pretty fine hack, but I forget
where I read it.
I did something very similar about ten years ago. I was stuck in
rural West Virginia for several months dealing with a family estate. It
was a huge house on a gigantic piece of land, and was awesome in just
about every way, except unbelievably isolated. No network access of any
kind available there, except Hughes satellite, which is unusable for
really much of anything.
I put DDWRT on a WRT-54G, paired it with a small Yagi, and scanned
around. I ended up pointing it at the lights on a distant mountaintop
on the other side of the valley, and, as you said, bingo. We ran with
that for about nine months. I still have no idea of whose connectivity
that was.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA