[MLB-WIRELESS] East Timor

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East TimorHi Andrew,

Running one computer from a dial up connection these days (with content-rich pages designed to be fed via a broadband connection) can be hideously slow.  Further sharing that connection via a wireless network to a number of computers would probably be impractical although, as the other respondents suggested, technically possible.

How many computers did you want to connect on your network?

Another possibility may be to bring in a backbone connection from Dili.  This could be done cheaply using 5.8 Ghz 802.11a wireless LAN gear bolted to cheap satellite TV dishes.  Melbourne Wireless members have experimented with this recently with excellent results.

>From memory, the drive from Dili to Baucau took about 3 to 4 hours (at low speed) and was only about 120 km.  There were some big hills along the way, some with towers.  It is conceivable  that you could get 10-20 Megabits per Second to Baucau using 4 or 5 hops of wireless.  That would be enough to run a fairly serious network.

There is a lot of experience on tap within Melbourne Wireless, especially with our community network focus, and you may well benefit from attending a meeting and talking to the members about the many options available.

David Nuttall.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Andrew Mahar 
  To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au 
  Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2007 1:55 PM
  Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] East Timor


  G'day, 

  I am hoping that someone may be able to provide me with some advice.  I am doing some work in East Timor and am interested in establishing a wireless network in the second largest town, a place called Baucau.  The issue is that the only internet they have available is dial up.  Is it possible to establish a wireless network using dial up as the connection to the internet?

  Any advise on how to go about doing this would be appreciated.  

  Best wishes 

  andrew 






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