[geeks] Free Space Optics

[David Selders]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:27:43PM -0500, Caleb Shay wrote:
> I don't have experience with these specific companies, but I do have 
> one important note for line of site networking.
> 
> Make sure nobody can get to it.
> 
> True story.
> 
> At $WORK-3 we had one of these setups and our connection kept going 
> down on a regular basis.  Turned out there was a homeless guy living 
> on the roof of the building who kept putting a sticky note over the 
> lens because he thought it was watching him.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Caleb

Thats pretty funny... I will keep that in mind.  We do share the
building on one end, but we basically own it and access to the roof
isn't to easily obtained.  I was actually a bit incorrect in my first email.
What I should have asked for was some real world differences in free space
optics and millimeter wave.  I am presonally leaning towards the millimeter 
wave solution.  We do get some fog during the winter monthes in our area and 
I'm concerned that would cause the connection to drop with a FSO solution.  

-- 
David