We were on FWA for a while, as it was the only connection type faster than ISDN available to us, before DSL was fully rolled out. My dad was an RF technician,

We were on FWA for a while, as it was the only connection type faster than ISDN available to us, before DSL was fully rolled out. My dad was an RF technician, so he checked all the permits and allocations beforehand, and did his own survey to make sure we had a 100% uninterrupted line of sight to the mast. It worked quite well, better than the horror stories you hear now, 1.5Mbps and we didn't have issues with rain unless it was a torrential downpour. Snowfall was the real killer, in our experience. I guess most other subscribers weren't so lucky with foliage etc. In the end, DSL was rolled out and we jumped ship, but FWA was a neat technology, it felt very futuristic.