From: heller@deepsoft.com
At Tue, 08 Jul 2014 23:22:46 -0700 Glen Labah wrote:
>
> In article <_-ednWM3VsztdybOnZ2dnUVZ_radnZ2d@giganews.com>,
> Robert Heller wrote:
>
> > Wireless has many problems, partitularly in hilly, forested areas.
Wireless
> > only *really* works well over *short* distances and where line-of-sight is
> > possible.
>
>
> Tell that to Rogers Communications! The San Juan Islands are both, yet
> their cell phone signal from Victoria covers northwest Washington
> including the San Juan Islands pretty nicely - too bad Canadian roaming
> charges are so expensive!
>
> Supposedly the 900 mhz signal that Rock Island Communications is using
> works reasonably well throughout the islands.
Oceans and lakes are generally flat and are not hilly or forested, so yes,
wireless works reasonably well, esp. if you put a tower on a tall peak
somewhere. Wireless fails *badly* in places like Western Mass, which is both
hilly and forested.
>
> Even if it doesn't, there's only so much you can do when neither copper
> nor fiber are available. I think maybe 6 of the 180 or so named islands
> have some sort of physical communication link.
>
> Even those that have a physical communications link are somewhat
> tenuous. A few months back someone dropped anchor in a place they
> shouldn't, and knocked out CentryLink's fiber optic line. The only
> phone and internet service working for a month or so was the satellite
> link operated by the local phone cooperative - or find a place with an
> expensive but functional signal from Canada.
>
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