5 Sep
2020
5 Sep
'20
10:33 p.m.
On Sep 5, 2020, at 1:13 PM, John Yaldwyn <jy at
xtra.co.nz> wrote:
Hi Mike,
I live in a rural area here in New Zealand.
The best internet on offer is 5Mbps/500kbps ADSL, slow satellite with horrendous latency,
or rural broadband on 700 MHz LTE.
Your internet options are slightly better than mine... best ADSL I could get is about
3Mbps down, with frequent service interruptions and poor customer support! I connect over
a cellular tether, but all three major carriers here have poor cellular coverage in my
area. My connectivity is sometimes fast, but very unreliable.
To solve the Internet problem I found a friend about 6
miles away in the local village area that could get fibre. We set him up with shiny new
Gbps service and run a dual polarised 5.8 GHz link with 2' dishes that gives me 400
Mbps downloads and a 1ms typical ping times.
I'm trying to come up with a similar scheme. The trouble so far is finding an
accomplice with a clear line of sight and good internet service. I'm considering
sending letters to random strangers in a nearby neighborhood that has cable service. The
nearest home with modern internet access is a mere 540 meters from my house.
My parents have similarly poor internet options, and they live 3 miles away with a clear
line of sight. Once we get better connectivity at either home, we'll put in a
microwave link so we can share it. If I could come up with a business plan that lets me go
into business for myself instead of being a wage slave, you can bet that my company would
be located somewhere with a clear line of sight to either my home or my parents' home.
I've identified three candidate business parks in Riverside.
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Mark J. Blair <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/