Have you seen the articles on building your own directional WLAN aerial? You can get a range of several miles. sorry no URL, but try a Google search.
On 18-Feb-2003 Michael Sage wrote:
To Fellow ALUGers,
I would like to make an appeal to all of you without broadband in the area, how would you feel about setting up a wireless wan (they are doing it all over the country and in other regions (Suffolk, Cambridge)). As I live in the middle of no where I am not commercially viable, but I believe with the power of the penguin I can jump onto someone else's wireless network, with their permission and do things that way.
Check out http://locustworld.com for the meshAP kit, which we can build cheaper, also www.invisible.net.uk for other stuff.
Let me know what u think! Maybe ALUG can be held responsible for the birth of Norfolknet!
Regards to all,
Michael
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