Pirate hispeed wireless data...
Cause I live in the Ozarks, and none of the legal solutions are worth
the powder to blow to hell.
The 56k POTS is all rite if you live in town. But sound like a 1930's
movie if you dont. I'm only 6 miles, and it pops and cracks so bad it is
always dropping carrier.
They offer wireless to a transponder on a ridge, but it's at 900 mhz or
more. It cant get down into the river bottoms at all. It cant penetrate
the forest canopy, which is why so many of us live here in the first
place, and it gets even worse in wet weather, which we've been having so
much more of. Prolly the local effect of greenhouse warming.
Theoretically, you can get data off the dish. But every time I check,
all I can do is put my name on a waiting list.
You can get hispeed data in town. ADSL, I believe.
Hmm. Well, I like debian, been running the Corel version for years, and
right now am trying the new XANDOS version. It's got a ton a toys, and I
wonder if the sound (mic/speaker) I/O could be fed to a
transmitter/receiver combo for full duplex at a lower frequency that
could handle the terrain. There's lotsa dead air. With a portable TV and
rabbit ears, unless you are on a ridge, you'll get one, count them, one
TV channel. Fortunately, PBS. They dont havta make a buck broadcasting
here, and nobody else bothers. Hit 'scan' on the truck radio, on US 65
between Marshall & Leslie, and it'll leave the Christian Fundy station
from Marshall, and after ten seconds, ends up back at the Christian
Fundy radio station.
We usta use CB, and that low frequency could go, with an outside Yagi
antenna, from one bottom over a ridge and down into the next. There's
lotsa dead air from 50mhz on up. Seems like a spread spectrum
transmitter wouldnt have any trouble locating an empty frequency to use.
But could the sound card be used this way? or is there a better way?
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