* My parents live in a rural area (Texas) just outside the city limits of a city of approx 10K people.
* Their current Internet is a line-of-sight service with an antenna on their roof.
* They pay $65/mo. for ~2.15Mbps Down, 2.25Mbps Up (yes, the #'s are right... I just checked using http://speedtest.att.com/speedtest/)
This is horribly slow! It feels like the ISP is price gouging (increasing 1Mbps up costs an extra $20/mo, IIRC)!
Is there a non commercial way to extend a signal from someone in the center of the town to my parents (my sister's house, for example, approx 2 miles)?
This is not my area of expertise, but I figured that it was worth asking the wisdom of HN for potential ideas/solutions.
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* Their current Internet is a line-of-sight service with an antenna on their roof.
* They pay $65/mo. for ~2.15Mbps Down, 2.25Mbps Up (yes, the #'s are right... I just checked using http://speedtest.att.com/speedtest/)
This is horribly slow! It feels like the ISP is price gouging (increasing 1Mbps up costs an extra $20/mo, IIRC)!
Is there a non commercial way to extend a signal from someone in the center of the town to my parents (my sister's house, for example, approx 2 miles)?
This is not my area of expertise, but I figured that it was worth asking the wisdom of HN for potential ideas/solutions.
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