[kde-linux] OT - slow Internet speed solution when high-speed is relatively close to you was Re: Non-functional KDE 4.6 in openSUSE 11.4

[Pablo Sanchez]

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On Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 10:40 AM, FrankK penned
about Re: [kde-linux] Non-functional KDE 4.6 in openSUSE 11.4

> I hope you get a faster connection soon.  
> ...

Howdy,

I live in rural Quebec (prior, I lived in rural Colorado) and there's
no hope of ever getting high speed.  I used Satellite (awful) for a
while.  Once the village got DSL, I replicated what we did in
Colorado: 

   o Find a `friendly' home you can `see' from your home - which has
     high speed.  :)
   o Get an outdoor enclosure for your DSL modem (and network gear)
     and install a new  phone line (dry if possible - no data)
   o Setup a point-to-point wireless connection from your home to the
     other home.  Ubiquiti gear is cheap yet awesome.

Here are some ping times on my wireless 6KM link:

   XM.v5.3# ping -c 5 172.16.6.53
   PING 172.16.6.53 (172.16.6.53): 56 data bytes
   64 bytes from 172.16.6.53: seq=0 ttl=64 time=2.005 ms
   64 bytes from 172.16.6.53: seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.422 ms
   64 bytes from 172.16.6.53: seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.174 ms
   64 bytes from 172.16.6.53: seq=3 ttl=64 time=1.451 ms
   64 bytes from 172.16.6.53: seq=4 ttl=64 time=1.511 ms

   --- 172.16.6.53 ping statistics ---
   5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
   round-trip min/avg/max = 1.174/1.512/2.005 ms
   XM.v5.3# 

Cheers,
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Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc
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