On Saturday 05 March 2011 15:14:16 Kussh Singh wrote: > Hi > > There is a school in a remote location and I was wondering if that > location could be connected via wimax or wireless mesh networking > at a reasonable cost. The service provider there is asking too much > money upfront for speeds as low as 2Mbps. Is there a possibility of > a layman/do it yourself type to set up a wimax network for them so > as to access the internet easily?
Yes > Which are the unregulated > frequencies for wimax/wimesh and which equipments would be needed? > Can anybody help? You have to create a long distance link with a directional antenna a tincan /pringle antenna is easy to do and has 100s of installations. on one end you connect your wifi router to a regular adsl or other internet connection. At the remote end you terminate into a lan network. The link will work only line of site, so you need both antenna as high as possible. > > At the Pabal school (vigyanashram.com) some company from bangalore > had setup a communication link but unfortunately it was not > sustainable maybe due to financial or logistic problems or it > happenned when the technology was raw. > > Kussh. > > -- > www.goodnewsindia.com > www.arvindguptatoys.com -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
