techeblog.com— You can build your own dual T1 wireless transmitter that serves up to 200 customers. check out the video clip.
Jun 20, 2006View in Crawl 4
Wow, I almost wanted to shoot myself because that vid was moving so slow. :)This stuff isn't rocket science. My buddy whacked up a similar thing for about $6k in iraq. It uses a satellite connection, and he's serving about 80 users on the base right now. The base is pretty sprawling, so he's got several WRT54G's running dd-wrt in custom enclosures with integrated antennas. It's a pretty neat system. He's using Chilispot for authentication, and people are paying him for access with paypal so he can recoup his costs on the equipment. The monthly charge on the satellite connection is somewhere around $1500 a month for 2M down/1M up.
The show is what it is. Episode 1 out of 7. The others do get better technically and there is usually interesting content. Episode 3 features details of how to construct a 3 mile Cantenna!That Wifi site in this episode was placed into service at a time when no other broadband service was available in that subdivision. It's no longer on the air, but did serve it's purpose well during it's years of service.
Thank you for telling us about this show. I think I'm gonna have to start watching this show now. I love macgyver type stuff like this. I wish more movies were more technical when they had scenes with computers / electronics.
Guspaz: I think that's his point. A GPRS or EDGE link would be faster than this ISP. (although I dunno where he got 384 kbit/s from -- AFAIK an EDGE link can only get up to 236 kbit/s)
You have got to love the guy in the video-he was truly chuffed with himself that he put this wireless network together. As signal15 mentioned above it's not rocket science. Just about anyone can start a wireless isp in their neighborhood or town, i ran across a site devoted to just that thing- anyone can start a wisp, <a class="user" href="http://www.diy-wirelessisp.com">http://www.diy-wirelessisp.com</a> -i like how they put together an entire site devoted to helping anyone interested in starting a simple, easy and cheap diy wireless ISP. so you really dont need to drop the $1000's of dollars that the guy in the vid did to build a robust network.
deathtog4Jun 20, 2006
we used excisting towers
signal15Jun 20, 2006
Wow, I almost wanted to shoot myself because that vid was moving so slow. :)This stuff isn't rocket science. My buddy whacked up a similar thing for about $6k in iraq. It uses a satellite connection, and he's serving about 80 users on the base right now. The base is pretty sprawling, so he's got several WRT54G's running dd-wrt in custom enclosures with integrated antennas. It's a pretty neat system. He's using Chilispot for authentication, and people are paying him for access with paypal so he can recoup his costs on the equipment. The monthly charge on the satellite connection is somewhere around $1500 a month for 2M down/1M up.
dr_technicalJun 20, 2006
The show is what it is. Episode 1 out of 7. The others do get better technically and there is usually interesting content. Episode 3 features details of how to construct a 3 mile Cantenna!That Wifi site in this episode was placed into service at a time when no other broadband service was available in that subdivision. It's no longer on the air, but did serve it's purpose well during it's years of service.
wthnowJun 20, 2006
Thank you for telling us about this show. I think I'm gonna have to start watching this show now. I love macgyver type stuff like this. I wish more movies were more technical when they had scenes with computers / electronics.
Closed AccountJun 21, 2006
Guspaz: I think that's his point. A GPRS or EDGE link would be faster than this ISP. (although I dunno where he got 384 kbit/s from -- AFAIK an EDGE link can only get up to 236 kbit/s)
thecomputermuttJun 21, 2006
gyrfalcon, if you hate everything about Digg, get the f**k off the site!
gyrfalconJul 10, 2006
@TheComputerMuttI didn't say anything about hating digg... you can use a site and still think its users/founders suck. So shove it a$$hat.
gyrfalconJul 10, 2006
^_^
yellowajSep 5, 2008
You have got to love the guy in the video-he was truly chuffed with himself that he put this wireless network together. As signal15 mentioned above it's not rocket science. Just about anyone can start a wireless isp in their neighborhood or town, i ran across a site devoted to just that thing- anyone can start a wisp, <a class="user" href="http://www.diy-wirelessisp.com">http://www.diy-wirelessisp.com</a> -i like how they put together an entire site devoted to helping anyone interested in starting a simple, easy and cheap diy wireless ISP. so you really dont need to drop the $1000's of dollars that the guy in the vid did to build a robust network.