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[Brock]

I vote for the balloons! You could maybe look into getting a WiMax
license...

Too bad you aren't a bit further south, you could get on with these
folks:

  http://www.columbiarea.com/programs/internet.php

--Brock

On 2006.08.09.16.36, Benjamin R. Ginter wrote:
| Brock,
| 
| I've been looking at WildBlue who offers broadband speeds using two-way 
| offset paraboloid satellite dishes.  Some forum posts have indicated that 
| the latency is still fairly poor, in the 200-250ms range.  I guess the 
| satellite is at 22k miles or something for geosynchronous orbit and light 
| can only go so fast.
| 
| Near Colville, Qwest does offer DSL and another provider offers point to 
| point links via microwave with line of sight to their antennas/repeaters. 
| I've heard Hughes has a business-class satellite service that some doctors 
| are using for critical telepresence applications that would seem to 
| require lower delays.
| 
| Since 200ms is fairly useless for interactive shells, any other providers 
| you or the other readers may be aware of would be of interest to me. 
| Otherwise, I might have to start getting creative with passive waveguides 
| or smth.  Hell, maybe I should just launch some instrument laden weather 
| balloons and start my own ISP!  Who says the glory days are over? :)
| 
| Ben
| 
| On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Brock wrote:
| 
| >Neat. If you have offgrid-internet feel free to drop us a line and tell
| >us how it's going :)