[Leaplist] Help! Advice!!

[Kyle Gonzales]

Ram,

You may want to look at EVDO service from Sprint or Verizon.  I have
gotten data service via their cards in some remote places.  For fixed
installs you can use a larger powered antenna to get better reception.

And yes, these cards work great in Linux. :)  There are even routers
that you can plug the EVDO cards directly into, and share service with
your whole network.

If you want to go the T1 route, you can definitely do this as well.
802.11b for the neighborhood would be interesting.  Would need traffic
shaping to make sure no one ate the whole of the bandwidth. Probably
shape to 256k with some bursting allowed.  A Squid proxy would be a
must, as would having a local caching DNS server.  Might be useful and
cost effective if you add VoIP home phone service as well using
Asterisk or OpenPBX.  The T1 line would have the appropriate latency
to make it reliable.  A T1 line could support everyone with one line
being on the phone at the same time, and still have some bandwidth
left over.

Here is a bonded T1 (3Mb total bandwidth) deal from Speakeasy.  Heck,
everyone could have two static IPs!  Your neighborhood could have its
own domain!  Might even want to run a basic web and mail server for
the neighborhood.  You could totally become a localized ISP. :)

http://www.speakeasy.net/promos/bondedt1749/

Very interesting project!

On Dec 20, 2007 10:14 AM, Ram K. Singh <rksingh54 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Guys,
>
> Where I live, there is no cable available. Verizon phone lines do not work
> when it rains. DSL is out of question because we live about 7 miles from a
> Verizon Central Office. We tried Satellite service provided by Dish Network
> (They call it Wild Blue Satellite Service) and that was a hopeless effort.
>
> There are only a few (fewer than 15) people in my neighborhood and we want
> affordable broadband. Short of moving out to metropolis, is there anything?
> I have thought about T1 lines  but to effectively utilize the T1 lines and
> sell the bandwidth in a cooperative move to my neighbors, I need
> information.
>
> Except for going to school again, is there a do it yourself book that you
> can suggest?
>
> Ram
>
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