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Originally Posted by djnerve
Hi guys!
I have telewest broadband,tv and phone. MY girfriend lives in south yorkshire and shes on a hillish road. her road hasnt had cable laid as the exchange is too far away?? anyway shes on bt at the minuite and the exchange is too far away as well so she has really bad speeds.
is their anything we can do? they really want telewest/ntl in their area. like who could we get in contact with? its the S64 area of south yorkshire.
Thanks
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http://www.broadbandchecker.co.uk/broadband-checker.php
(Satellite Broadband) AVC broadband ?, never heard of them but still, it exists.
and you can get the free to air DVB TV directly on you PC included, something NTL
refuse to do even now
http://www.avcbroadband.com/broadband/faq_8.shtml
http://www.avcbroadband.com/broadband/sat_prices.shtml
pipex is mentioned but i dont know if their wirelessWimax
options cover the S64 area of south yorkshire.
Wimax might be a very good thing to help NTL improve their services (competition is a very good thing), wonder if south manchester will ever get WiMax
see
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/n...lyupZAjJYtvpyf
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/show...outh+yorkshire
http://www.wmnc.org.uk/projects/docu...dreleasewm.pdf
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regarding setting up a personal wireless network over 2 miles, its a challenge, but doable if for instance you wanted your girfriend to be able to remote control your desktop
as though she were sat infront of your machine using your valid ntl connection.
look at large external yagi (tv style)arials, or better for long distance parabolic (sat type dish)arials,and they must be line of sight.
http://search.ntlworld.com/ntlworld/...reless+yagi&cr=
http://www.seattlewireless.net/AntennaHowTo
the hardest part is sourceing the mini wifi pigtails/connectors and best quality lowloss cable locally, and rememer to keep your wifi arial cable as short as you possibly can as longer =loss of power and hence speed,you should easly manage 10mbit, perhaps far better (11g 22mbit/11g+ even more)with the right set of directional arials.
any 2 matching madwifi 11g pci/pcmcia/cardbus cards should do the trick for your personal or even beginings of your community wireless network, but as already said, only use the official connected machine to do your broadband
you might even look to useing the new 11n (300mbit) cards and they are using MiMO and hence suposed to be far better at distance and clearing up the connection so faster overall.
11g/22mbit is good enough to play your average DVD over the wireless network for instance.