From James Hall > friends house (which is about 2 miles away.) > We're seperated by several trees, at the very least. in any low power wireless tech, you really need direct line of sight. no trees. You'll have to put up a higher pole to get over the trees, or move around them. > I know about 802.11 wireless ethernet. > Great speed, but limited range. Unless you add a dish and/or an amp to boost > the power (dunno if this would work.) yes, using high gain focused antennas is possible. Legality is questionable. I'm not totally familiar with the FCC's laws in this band. > I know about HAM packet radio (I have a no code tech license..) > Slow speed (1200-9600 baud, I've heard of 56k..), both sides have to be > licensed.. insecure, expensive equipment.. etc If you go beyond a no code tech, there are high frequency bands that offer more bandwidth. They're still limited by the "everything must be in the clear" policy; no encryption, no privacy. > What else is there? Ricochet 128k 'modems' sound right to me.. but I doubt > their range is up to it (and if they could actually function peer-peer.. > outside the Ricochet system) There are some proprietary point-to-point network solutions, but they're expensive. $2k per end is the usual price. Range can be upto 10km, though. search the web, there's lots of information around. - Kevin -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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