[geeks] RE: [rescue] satellite internet service

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I personally get the rather strong impression that the cable company
is plain greedy and they are trying to force him to pay their $4 a
foot, which is incredible. I would tell hem where to go and run a
wire to a neighbor. 



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- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Borton" <tborton at usa.net>
To: <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 6:17 PM
Subject: RE: [geeks] RE: [rescue] satellite internet service


> Here's a slightly painful idea for you to present in theory to see
> if they can argue it: if you have line-of-sight from the house to
> the property edge, you could set up two wireless access points. 
> One at the property edge in the shed, one at the house, preferably
> in a window facing the access point at the property line.  1200ft
> is a stretch but possible - the Linksys WAP11 runs in
> "infrastructure mode" to support a wireless bridge at up to 500m.
> 
> The point being in fact that, once they terminate the cable line at
> your access point, you can then run your own line to their
> termination point. Even if they don't support the access
> point/router/firewalls as far as connectivity through them, they
> almost certainly accept them as
> termination points.
> 
> Tom
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Corda Albert J DLVA
> Sent: 13 March 2002 17:34
> 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
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