RE: Building a wireless network in Iraq

I just emailed those Marines, hopefully they can help me find a vendor. Is
a satellite connection something I can buy the equipment for and set up
myself or am I really gonna need someone to come out here and bless it?

-ryan

--- Dave Holmes-Kinsella <[email protected]> wrote:

> Mostly ontopic-- check out how a batallion of marines did it:
> http://www.36dish.com 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Ryan Marsh
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:19 AM
> To: Curtis Doty
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [BAWUG] Building a wireless network in Iraq
> 
> LOL, yah, I've got a cell phone here, and the service is great. It's
> crazy
> how technology still finds its way into the nooks and crannies of the
> most
> screwed up places on earth.  Are there any wireless ISP's in Baghdad you
> know of? We're still searching for a Satellite provider too, seems they
> are
> all afraid of making money. They move like molasses in January (to quote
> my
> Mother).
> --
> Let us, then, be up and doing,
>      With a heart for any fate;
> Still achieving, still pursuing,
>      Learn to labor and to wait.
>    -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
> On Jul 29, 2004, at 9:10 PM, Curtis Doty wrote:
> 
> > Ryan Marsh wrote:
> >
> >> I'm putting together a wireless network for the guys in my company.
> >
> > Apologies for leading the topic astray, but you also might want to 
> > contact the author of this web log "where wanderlust leads ..."
> >
> > http://www.livejournal.com/users/giantlaser/
> >
> > He's been living in Baghdad outside the Green Zone for a year now. And 
> > this has got to be one of my favorite all time install photos:
> >
> > http://www.tolaris.com/gallery/kurdistan/Kamiran_on_the_tower
> >
> > It's a shapshot taken of his employees as they install a wireless ISP 
> > in Mosul. The SEG on his face as they cling atop a tower (no OSHA 
> > climbing regs!) with the rural town and mosque in the background is 
> > great!
> >
> > ../C
> >
> 
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    Learn to labor and to wait.
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