Storm Wireless Service Connection Problems

[Curt]

Storm Wireless Service Connection Problems

I don’t have access to DSL or cable in my area. Storm recently connected my small village with Storm Wireless, problem is, they mounted the antenna on a 20' tower, as the owner of the house did not want a higher tower on her yard. So anyways, I don’t get a signal from that tower. I live way up on a hill, and I can see the water tower of the next village, which is approx. 8-10 KM away from my house. Storm Wireless has a coverage radius of 8-10 KM.
My problem is, the silo is around 100 feet from the house. I am wondering if it would make sense to run a wire all the way to the house. I also have a spare 30' tower my uncle gave us, we were supposed to mount it to install a TV antenna but never did it. It could be used to mount the antenna. It would bring the same problem as the silo though; a wire would need to run from the tower all the way to the house. I can’t seem to be able to reach to the tower from the top of my house, but have no problem, as I get closer to it..

Also is anyone else far from their WISP? Is it as reliable then if you were closer?

400$ installation fee
40$ month + 10 $ modem rental
2 MB up and down with a 10 GB monthly cap. (10$ per gig afterwards I think)
Is this a good deal?

[Charles]

I am 5 miles (12.7 km) away from my WISP and with a high gain (24dB) grid antenna have adequate signal for 700/380 kbps services through a few trees 300 meters away. If the silo has power to it you may wish to consider a wireless router to a wireless access point in the house over a secure link.

You can bury up to 100 meters of cat5 cable if the radio unit uses that as it's output. 30 meters of coax is the limit on my Alvarion 2.4 GHz Breese Access II system here but without knowing the hardware you are using we are just guessing at options.

[Jason]

Hopefully some of the users that have built links like your need recommend some equipment that isn't too expensive.

As far as the temperature goes, if you found a router with an external antenna, it could be built into a small box with some self-limiting heat tape in it to keep it at 40 degrees F or so to keep it working in extreme temperatures.

For going through several walls, you may need external antennas for the computers and burring a cat5 cable from the silo to the house may work better. Do you know what type of radio setup the WISP uses? Does it use coax or cat5 from the outdoor unit & antenna to the indoor unit?