Forget Comcast. Here’s a DIY Approach to Internet Access

Re:Forget Comcast. Here’s a DIY Approach to Internet Access by fweespeech on Thursday August 04, 2016 @03:45PM (#12227964)

> The first node went live in the early summer of 2004, when Roca turned on a router with a directional antenna he’d installed at the top of a tall building near the local government headquarters. That office was also the only place in town with Internet access, a DSL line Telefonica had run to municipal governments throughout the region. The antenna was aimed, line of sight, toward Roca’s home about six kilometers away.

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Re:Forget Comcast. Here’s a DIY Approach to Internet Access by lintiness on Thursday August 04, 2016 @03:50PM (#12227991)

so he's piggybacking municipal wifi from that building?

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Re:Forget Comcast. Here’s a DIY Approach to Internet Access by _nalply on Thursday August 04, 2016 @04:06PM (#12228080)

Yes it seemed to have started this way.

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