On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 06:31:23AM -0500, Rick Leir wrote: > I was installing antennas for Ripnet around Brockville. > > In Ottawa, Storm serves the flat, open areas. It is more difficult to > serve the hilly, wooded areas. Each location is different. Many benefit > from a nice tall DMX tower. When you can't get line-of-sight to a Storm > tower, what then? We need cooperation, where homeowners relay > connections to others who have line-of-sight to them. Some work is needed > to organize this all. What is the financial model? Can we work with > SimplySurf? > > For fun: there was a homeowner who did not have line-of-sight to Ripnet, > but was a mile away from a large industrial building that gave a good > reflection. Connected! > > Another homeowner had a tower, but a tree blocked the line-of-sight. With > a 10' mast extended horizontally from the top of the tower, Connected! > cheers -- Rick Yeah, this is the type of creative stuff which would make community wireless fun. Anything home brew/ham like rigs: if you have the time/need, else just setup something generic and have fun on the network side. > -- > Rick Leir 613-828-8289 -> rick > http://www.leirtech.com/rick/ AT leirtech -- Allan Fields <afields [ at ] afields [ dot ] ca> - Ottawa, Canada Himeji Systems http://himejisystems.com Afields Research / Systems Lab http://afields.ca Cell: 613.261.5662 2D4F 6806 D307 0889 6125 C31D F745 0D72 39B4 5541