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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] Microwave, was Doesn't matter
  • Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:40:22 -0800

O.K., so I am doing as you say and looking to find answers. Anyone know anything about microwave internet access?

As I've mentioned in the past, my internet access is via a landline that was put in sometime in the early 70s, maybe late 60s. No upgrades since that time. If there were a word for slower than slow, that would apply to our internet.

A few days ago the guy up on the hill comes down and asks if he can use one of our trees for an antenae for microwave internet. We stand around carping about the misery we all experience with Verizon, the WORST phone service in the world, the daily "ghost" calls and picking up the phone to hear someone else talking.

We talk a little about microwave and he says it is supposed to be faster and more reliable than satellite. Then he mentions the magic number, $30/month!

Sooooo, all ye much more cyber knowledgeable folks, what know ye about microwave? The only thing I've heard is that the Coast Guard has been using it but they have had problems when there's a high tide. Which, needless to say, is not something I have to worry about <g>

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>

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Between forty and seventy is the time for
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