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kame
11-23-2005, 08:32 AM
http://www.wwc.edu/~frohro/Airport/Primestar/Primestar.html
BigJon
11-23-2005, 03:52 PM
That's whack.
Kevster
11-24-2005, 03:02 AM
That's whack.

It works, though. A co-worker of mine got two of these so that he could do a decent point-to-point WiFi link. He gets 11Mb over this 1 mile link even in a rainstorm thanks to the gain of those antennas.
johnnymk
11-24-2005, 05:59 AM
So would it be possible to share an internet connection with a friend who lives nearby?

Or how about satellite dish to computer to WiFi to computer to TV?
Kevster
11-26-2005, 01:40 PM
So would it be possible to share an internet connection with a friend who lives nearby?

Or how about satellite dish to computer to WiFi to computer to TV?

It would be possible, provided you had a decent line-of-sight available. Robert Cringely of the PBS on-line column "I, Cringely" did this with his neighbors since he couldn't get broadband internet access from where his home was in No. California. He would use his neighbor's access only when he his main access didn't work - he was pulling a WiFi signal from a 'free' provider in the town of Santa Rosa and actually setup a relay antenna to bounce his WiFi signal off a hill to get around another hill that was blocking his line-of-sight into town. It worked most of the time except when windstorms or severe storms would screw up the antenna's orientation and he'd have to go back and re-orient it.