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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@portsoft.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Leased line options?
Date: 8 May 1997 19:48:18 GMT
Organization: Portland Software
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You might be better off investigating some of the wireless networking
solutions.  There are some radio solutions that will work over that
distance and give you near ethernet speeds.

Ted

Nigel Gorry <nigel@palms.nq.net> wrote in article
<5kkmlf$j84@news.mel.aone.net.au>...
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I use my FreeBSD (2.2.1) machine at home as a router and I'm sick of
paying 
> for local calls, so I want to find out what is available to use over a
leased 
> line for a distance of 1 kilometre (0.6 mile)...  ISDN is too expensive
(about 
>