Re: question on l on equipment for a local fiber installation

2010-10-26 Thread Gerry Hull
Food for thought: If you have line-of-site to the pole, you can buy two inexpensive data radios for far less than the cost of running fiber, connectors and interconnect. In fact, stock 802.11 b/g/n gear with some small yagi antennas will do 3000 feet no problemo if there is line of sight. Gerry

Re: question on l on equipment for a local fiber installation

2010-10-26 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Narad Networks -- a place where I helped out on occasion -- was doing essentially the exact opposite: fiber on the poles, coax to the home. There's one problem, though, that they were able to resolve that could be an additional sticking point for you: getting power to the equipment at the pole. I

question on l on equipment for a local fiber installation

2010-10-26 Thread James Seagraves
Hi everyone I have a house northern NH that is 3000' from the nearest telephone pole. We have had satellite Internet service and the speed and download limits (16 Gb/30 days) are a real pain. So we are looking at replacing the satellite with the local cable provider. The problem is our distance

Re: [GNHLUG] TONIGHT: ManchLUG, Marc Nozell on: org-mode & hugin

2010-10-26 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:43 AM, kenta wrote: > We had hoped to have Doctor Emmett Brown discuss how he used arduino > in his latest  time machine project, however due to unforeseen > circumstances he is not able to make it. That meeting has been rescheduled to last month. -- Ben

[GNHLUG] TONIGHT: ManchLUG, Marc Nozell on: org-mode & hugin

2010-10-26 Thread kenta
Join us TONIGHT Oct. 26th for ManchLUG in Manchester, NH. We had hoped to have Doctor Emmett Brown discuss how he used arduino in his latest time machine project, however due to unforeseen circumstances he is not able to make it. Instead, Marc Nozell will be presenting on org-mode (http://orgmode