On Saturday 05 March 2011 15:14:16 Kussh Singh wrote:
Hi
There is a school in a remote location and I was wondering if that location could be connected via wimax or wireless mesh networking at a reasonable cost. The service provider there is asking too much money upfront for speeds as low as 2Mbps. Is there a possibility of a layman/do it yourself type to set up a wimax network for them so as to access the internet easily?
Yes
Which are the unregulated frequencies for wimax/wimesh and which equipments would be needed? Can anybody help?
You have to create a long distance link with a directional antenna a tincan /pringle antenna is easy to do and has 100s of installations. on one end you connect your wifi router to a regular adsl or other internet connection. At the remote end you terminate into a lan network.
The link will work only line of site, so you need both antenna as high as possible.
At the Pabal school (vigyanashram.com) some company from bangalore had setup a communication link but unfortunately it was not sustainable maybe due to financial or logistic problems or it happenned when the technology was raw.
Kussh.
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