[geeks] RE: [rescue] satellite internet service

[Corda Albert J DLVA]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Big Endian [mailto:bigendian at mac.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 5:41 PM
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: RE: [geeks] RE: [rescue] satellite internet service
> 
> 
> >   I've already tried that... I even had a sit-down meeting
> >with Adelphia's district manager. The end result was
> >"No Way".  She insisted that the installation had to
> >be carried out by "Qualified" installers. They absolutely
> >refused to hook up to a customer-supplied cable.  I even
> >tried to get them to install to a shed located near the
> >pedistal, but she considerd the fiber drop  that I was
> >going to run to the shed as a customer-supplied cable
> >extension)
> >
> >   I then proceeded to complain at a county cable board
> >meeting about the installation costs, but was told that
> >$4.00 a foot was "reasonable" and that the contract
> >between the county and Adelphia did not put any
> >restrictions on it (I even procured a copy of the
> >cable contract... they weren't lying)...
> >
> >What really hurts about all this is that when I
> >bought my house back in `92, the previous owner
> >told me that the cable company had offered to
> >run a line up to it for free. He absolutely
> >refused (He was an "anti-TV" proponent).  When
> >I bought the house, I inquired about it and
> >they told me it would now be $1.00 a foot...
> >but being a new home owner, I didn't have the
> >spare cash at the time, so I put it off for a
> >year. The next year when I had the cash, I tried
> >to submit an order, and was informed that it
> >would now be $3.00 a foot (The cable deregulation
> >act had just passed a few months earlier). Now
> >it's $4.00 a foot.  I give up.
> >
> >So, as a result, I've been exploring alternatve
> >connection schemes.
> >
> >BTW, is anyone here on the corporate board at Adelphia ;-)
> >
> >-al-  "Connectionless in Fredericksburg" (Sounds like
> >a movie title, doesn't it :-)
> 
> Could you put up an RF tower somewhere?  If so things could probably 
> be worked out w/ a point ot point RF link into DSL range or 
> something.  The latencies would *SUCK* but it would get you some 
> speed.
> 

I researched this... There are things you can do with a wireless
access point tranceiver and an old primestar dish that can extend
the range to somewhere between 5-10 Mi. (line-of-sight). The problem
is that the closest friend I have that might even consider getting
involved in this is > 30 Mi. away, with _many_ trees between us. :-(

-al-



> daniel
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