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== Off-Grid Internet Relay Station == | |||
PROBLEM: Jeff Higdon had a common problem for homesteaders in deeply rural areas: no internet service easily available. No DSL, no cable, and definitely no fiber. Satellite internet is notoriously slow with bursts of very high latency, so not a great choice. What to do? | |||
ANALYSIS: Jeff did some research and found that a local ISP had several fiber-connected microwave relay towers in the mountains around his homestead, but climbing a tree next to his house and looking around he saw that he didn't have a clear line of sight to any of them. Walking 600 feet towards a neighbor's property, he found a clear line of sight to one of the towers and a clear line of sight to his house. How to relay the microwave signal from the mountain to his house? | |||
SOLUTION: Jeff needed to build an off-grid, solar powered, internet relay station. | |||
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Welcome to Open Source Ecology! We hope you will contribute much and well. You will probably want to read the help pages. Again, welcome and have fun! Marcin (talk) 02:09, 3 February 2018 (CET)
Off-Grid Internet Relay Station
PROBLEM: Jeff Higdon had a common problem for homesteaders in deeply rural areas: no internet service easily available. No DSL, no cable, and definitely no fiber. Satellite internet is notoriously slow with bursts of very high latency, so not a great choice. What to do?
ANALYSIS: Jeff did some research and found that a local ISP had several fiber-connected microwave relay towers in the mountains around his homestead, but climbing a tree next to his house and looking around he saw that he didn't have a clear line of sight to any of them. Walking 600 feet towards a neighbor's property, he found a clear line of sight to one of the towers and a clear line of sight to his house. How to relay the microwave signal from the mountain to his house?
SOLUTION: Jeff needed to build an off-grid, solar powered, internet relay station.