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echo: dads
to: Nancy Backus
from: Sean Rima
date: 2006-11-06 11:16:26
subject: Re: Anyone home

> -=> Quoting Sean Rima to Nancy Backus on 10-08-06  22:20 <=-
>>> Works too well at times but we have a new connection to the net, it is
>>> a wireless broadband that connects to an island 15 miles off shore and
>>> the island in turn connects to the mainland about 15 miles north of us
>>> why don't we do it direct ... there is a bleedin great mountain in the
>>> way
>> And mountains have to be circumvented...  :)    Makes sense.  :)
>> Yeah they ahve to be, at the moment we have a problem in that the new
>> connection seems to go down each night, not every nigth but most,
>> almost at the same time as well
> Hmm... some sort of regular (somewhat, anyway) interference, then...?

It turned out to be something simple, where the feed is at the island end,
there is no mains power so they were using a solar panel, but it was not
enough so they had to put in a wind turbine

Sean

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