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How does the radio work? Do you need line of site to the tower? Mind sharing your experience, or name of such companies? My father uses satellite, it's the only
by ddxv 10y ago
How does the radio work? Do you need line of site to the tower? Mind sharing your experience, or name of such companies? My father uses satellite, it's the only option I was aware of, but it's painful. I would love to learn about other possibilities. I've searched for wireless ISPs but it's a bit difficult to tell which ones are any good.
- amazon_not 10y ago> How does the radio work? You need a sender at the Internet connection and a receiver at the end user. The radio link can be either dedicated to you (point-to-point) or shared (point-to-multipoint). > Do you need line of site to the tower? Preferably yes. It may work without line of sight, but at reduced performance. > Mind sharing your experience, or name of such companies? http://www.wispa.org/ http://www.wispdirectory.com/ http://www.wirelessmapping.com/National-Coverage-Map-for-Fixed-Wireless-ISP's.php > I've searched for wireless ISPs but it's a bit difficult to tell which ones are any good. It's not like you are going to have lots of options. You take what you get. It will be better than satellite in any case.
- NelsonMinar 10y agoGood bandwidth requires clear line of sight. (You can get ~2Mbps through tree cover at 900Mhz). A lot of rural areas, at least in America, also have local ISPs providing service this way. You can also make own wireless link ~5 miles with gear from Ubiquiti or the like. It works basically like 802.11 WiFi but projected in one direction, and some protocol details are different. My ISP is in Nevada County, CA http://www.smarterbroadband.com/ http://www.smarterbroadband.com/ San Francisco has a cool ISP doing this in the city: https://www.monkeybrains.net/ https://www.monkeybrains.net/