[Elecraft] Re: Life after BPL

[Brendan Minish]

At 02:53 25/10/2003, Wayne Burdick wrote:

>Perhaps we should all volunteer to help lay fiber in rural areas. These folks
>need RFI-free internet access.


The BPL  brigade are not interested in the rural market and indeed cannot 
actually serve it anyway, operational BPL line reach is of the order of 
300m (yes I know there are some tests over longer distances, up to 1 mile 
or so without repeaters but at what data rates..)

The rural answer is Fixed wireless access, this need not be ' wiFi type 
solutions. Full carrier grade service is quite possible, Something that I 
am considering starting a business in my area to do.
Some of the higher end equipment suppliers are
http://www.wilan.com/
http://www.apertonet.com/


73
Brendan ei6iz