[geeks] RE: [rescue] satellite internet service

[Tom Borton]

Here's a slightly painful idea for you to present in theory to see if
they can argue it: if you have line-of-sight from the house to the
property edge, you could set up two wireless access points.  One at the
property edge in the shed, one at the house, preferably in a window
facing the access point at the property line.  1200ft is a stretch but
possible - the Linksys WAP11 runs in "infrastructure mode" to support a
wireless bridge at up to 500m.

The point being in fact that, once they terminate the cable line at your
access point, you can then run your own line to their termination point.
Even if they don't support the access point/router/firewalls as far as
connectivity through them, they almost certainly accept them as
termination points.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: geeks-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-admin at sunhelp.org]On Behalf
Of Corda Albert J DLVA
Sent: 13 March 2002 17:34
To: 'geeks at sunhelp.org'
Subject: RE: [geeks] RE: [rescue] satellite internet service
>   I've already tried that... I even had a sit-down meeting
> with Adelphia's district manager. The end result was
> "No Way".  She insisted that the installation had to
> be carried out by "Qualified" installers. They absolutely
> refused to hook up to a customer-supplied cable.  I even
> tried to get them to install to a shed located near the
> pedistal, but she considerd the fiber drop  that I was
> going to run to the shed as a customer-supplied cable