the viability of this depends on just how spread the community is. I
know on one group doing something like this but the houses are fairly
close together. If this is a farming community where distance between
houses are typically 500m or more and no line of sight you could have
problems with local distribution.

Also the one I know about is run by a tech savy IT professional, not
something most rural communities have.

Russell

Dave Mill wrote:
> I know that I am being off-topic for this list but I am wondering if
> you are attempting to climb the wrong tree here..
>
> Your problem could be solved this way:
> One long range wireless hop from your area to somewhere that has quick
> enough broadband for all of you. This may still be an ADSL connection
> with a large cap and a high downstream speed. And then run 802.11x all
> around your neighbourhood. This will probably save your neighbours
> cash overall, give you an interesting project, and saves bashing on
> doors that don't want to be answered.
>
> Better still if you have a local-ish ISP you could try talking to them
> about a wireless project.
>
> Want to know more? Maybe drop me a PM.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
> On 2/15/06, Tricia Balle <patricia_burgess@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> We're putting together a petition from as many people as we can on our
>> rural exchange to request that Telecom enable it for ADSL. The
>> exchange has had fibre optic to it for a long time and it is apparently
>> a very simple matter to enable Jetstream if Telecom so chooses. Once I
>> have gathered enough names to make this worthwhile, I want to send the
>> letter to as many people as possible. Does anybody on this list have
>> any names of people in Telecom to whom such a letter should go? There
>> is such pent-up demand here - many people don't even have decent dial
>> up due to the "electric fence" issue - and many have been bugging
>> Telecom for a couple of years, so this is just another attempt to push
>> them.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
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