[lug] Broadband in Eastern/Rural Boulder County?

[Lori Reed]

Bear Giles wrote:
> Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote:
>> I double checked with Qwest and SpeakEasy, and they are at 19.5k feet 
>> from
>> the CO, just too far for anything short of T1 or IDSL (both too
>> expensive). A neighbor around the corner (~18k feet from the CO) has
>> 225kbps ADSL from Qwest, right at the very edge of range.
>>   
> Define "around the corner".  Pringles can antennas can extend a wireless 
> hub by miles, if they're willing to share the connection.  (E.g., 
> offering to pick up the entire cost so the neighbor's get 'free' internet.)

I was thinking the same thing and remembered some articles I read years 
ago by Robert X. Cringely.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2001/pulpit_20010628_000421.html
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2002/pulpit_20020207_000721.html

Lori