http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/ Engadget Comments for Man builds 60-foot tower to nab some wireless broadband http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/Mar 3rd 2006 10:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/
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So you get your tower, you get an antenna rotor up there, and you mount it with a highly directional 2.4GHZ Yagi antenna with a pre-amp. You could effectively mooch off ANY open wifi in the surrounding area.

I don't know about you guys, but almost every house in my neighborhood has wifi. Some are open networks (and if you are going to mooch, you could probably hack into any b network if you wanted to, security or not).

I can't imagine that that tower was cheap, but at $50 bucks a month, you can pay off a significant sum in very little time at all.

Myself, I've been thinking of just getting the antenna, rotor, and pre-amp, and seeing what I get when I put them on a tripod on the roof.

Wifi is indeed the ham radio of our generation.]]>Mar 3rd 2006 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/Mar 3rd 2006 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/Mar 3rd 2006 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/Mar 3rd 2006 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/jk.]]>Mar 3rd 2006 11:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/
YOu know what she will say don't you??? "Honey, why don't you take that time and become a doctor or raise our kids?"

Good point honey, pass me another beer.]]>Mar 3rd 2006 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/Mar 3rd 2006 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/Mar 3rd 2006 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/Mar 3rd 2006 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/Mar 3rd 2006 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/
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But everyone who attends the church seems to leave with random stray thoughts of free porn, cheap viagara and various hair-growing pills...

(Oh, and now the pastor can pick up Howard Stern on his gold tooth fillings if he stands jussst right.)]]>Mar 3rd 2006 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/
That is too funny... Hold on I am Canadian.]]>Mar 3rd 2006 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/Mar 3rd 2006 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/Mar 3rd 2006 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/Mar 3rd 2006 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/Mar 3rd 2006 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.windcastbroadband.com/trees.htm]]>Mar 3rd 2006 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/
http://www.solidsignal.com/prod_display.asp?PROD=SDMX52]]>Mar 3rd 2006 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/Mar 3rd 2006 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/Maybe he built that tower to save some money so he can afford to raise his child while learning to become an anal surgeon? =O)]]>Mar 3rd 2006 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/I think you would probably have to in the UK]]>Mar 3rd 2006 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/"WOW. that was expensive. That tower probably laid him back at minimum $1,800. Unless he bought it used."

The answers to your questions ... in the article you didn't bother to read before posting a comment.]]>Mar 3rd 2006 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/]]>Mar 3rd 2006 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/Mar 3rd 2006 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/Mar 3rd 2006 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/
I'm drinking to rabies tonight.]]>Mar 3rd 2006 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/Mar 3rd 2006 1:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/


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$4000.

Plus, he had to run power and wiring himself to the tower location (which had to be ~ 100' from his house to avoid a treestand).

He went with Ka-band satellite instead.]]>Mar 3rd 2006 1:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/Mar 3rd 2006 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/Mar 3rd 2006 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/03/man-builds-60-foot-tower-to-nab-some-wireless-broadband/Mar 3rd 2006 4:02PM