[MLB-WIRELESS] help with last mile in the country...

[Jamie Lovick]

Hi,

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Gabrielle Harrison & Paul van den Bergen wrote:
> 
> I have a problem that needs solving...
>
> The telephone line comes to the edge of my fathers property. It
> costs $18/m to get it trenched onto the property. the logical place
> is 200 m away (that is $3600). and the current living area is some
> 3-400 m further!

This is how much Telstra charges. You can get anyone to dig the trench,
or even dig it yourself. Telstra will happily provide conduit for free
to go in the trench (well, they did when I had to put two 50 pairs in
when I used to run an ISP from my old home).

If you don't feel you can dig it yourself, there are plenty of
contractors out there.

> My first thought was:  wireless AP + 180 deg wave guide antenna +
> modem up a pole. and wireless connection wherever.  But that does
> fine for data, how can I do voice VoIP?

You can get VoIP concentrators, but they are quite expensive.

> so the first question is how to get the box-onna-pole to do
> telephone extension.

You'd need the VoIP box to forward any calls coming in to the other
extension. This typically involves the incoming call being answered and
a call delay for the establishment of the VoIP call.

> second, in the 433 MHz band I know solutions like this should exist.
> Can anyone point me towards people who do this sort of stuff?

Cordless phones? You could always put a cordless phone there. DECT one's
work well (they operate at 1.8 GHz).

> Note:  the most important point is to get telephony connected to the
> property. I don't care if data (eg. ethernet, whatever) is under
> neath this, on top of this, or an independent add on later. (though
> all those are possible.)

Cordless phone in a box. There is the other point that Telstra probably
won't terminate to an external point, but I could be wrong.

Regards

Jamie

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