How it's done in SE Asia... (Score 1)

Over in SE Asia where little or no infrastructure exists there are several Internet providers who are using Wireless to provide access to customers. I know my ISP (http://www.laopdr.com/) is using Wireless to provide access to the National University of the Lao PDR (http://nuol.edu.la/) I've been told by the techies they manage to get a good enough 8mb/s over a distance of around 10klms which is non LOS. I'm guessing it was 802.11 with a directional antennae. (check with the techies for more info) I've dropped you an email with the techies contact email address. Sometimes developing nations are an interesting case study because due to lack of infrastructure they have to use sometimes experimental ways to cover the distance. I also saw an article where an US University was using VHF to transmit data and got something like 50 miles out of it. Not sure of the URL. (try googling "Wireless" +University +USA or similar). Daimon