1 post tagged “standoff”

So my many feats to get broadband out in my neck of the woods (literally, I'm surrounded by trees) has once again failed, at least I think.

So in our area we have this wireless ISP and their tower/point-of-signal is about 2.5 miles away from our house. It seems all fine and dandy until you go to my house and try to look at the tower. Yeah, can't even see about 30 feet to the north. I'm surrounded by trees. So I've been trying to make attempts to get a tower raised, but my parents have been refused because they are convinced that the "other" service is going to come out here.

So anyways, our local WISP has 2.4GHz equipment and 900MHz equipment as well. The 900MHz immediately made a brain think of an idea. 900MHz signal travels much better through trees and foliage because the space between the wavelengths are much longer, which means they travel better. Now, I didn't know if they had 900MHz installed on their tower, so I sent them an email and got a response back today. No 900MHz.

What they suggest I do is get a site survey and they'll see if we could get a "good, reliable signal" before they sign us up for anything. I know they'd come out to our house and immediately scoff at the thought that we thought we could get wireless through all this.

So basically I am at a standoff. It's basically either raising a tower, getting satellite, sticking with dial-up, or praying that our power company will get moving on trying to get BPL out to our house, which I have a feeling won't be anytime soon.

What am I to do?