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some_idiot · 07-14-2003, 08:30 PM

I'm just replacing a custom 802.11 today in Niagra Falls with a T1.

It was a pentium running FreeBSD, a Lucent wireless, a YDI amp/ DC injector and a 36dbi parabolic. ($7000 at the time, now $450)

It was doing 5meg at 19 miles crossing the river 3 times! The guy only switched after some 4 years of operation because trees grew in the way that he can't convince/pay the owner to cut down.

Don't dismiss it so fast...
As a solution it's come along way since the Linux guys figured out how to steal the BSD driver code. You can leap frog ma and pa who want email all the way back to a CO and get some real speed (and part time job maintaining the gear)

07-14-2003, 08:30 PM
some_idiot Confirmed User Join Date: May 2002 Location: Doesn't matter, I'm not buying you another pint! Posts: 1,511	I'm just replacing a custom 802.11 today in Niagra Falls with a T1. It was a pentium running FreeBSD, a Lucent wireless, a YDI amp/ DC injector and a 36dbi parabolic. ($7000 at the time, now $450) It was doing 5meg at 19 miles crossing the river 3 times! The guy only switched after some 4 years of operation because trees grew in the way that he can't convince/pay the owner to cut down. Don't dismiss it so fast... As a solution it's come along way since the Linux guys figured out how to steal the BSD driver code. You can leap frog ma and pa who want email all the way back to a CO and get some real speed (and part time job maintaining the gear) __________________ This AVS pays my mortgage!