Re: Building a wireless network in Iraq

    I actually could get a decent wireless data connection on my laptop
through my Sprint phone & their "Vision" service and the right USB cable.
Theoretically it's fine for casual usage, start downloading over a hundred
megs of files & you might find that your Sprint has some questions for you.


On 7/29/04 10:18 AM, "Ryan Marsh" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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