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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (19061)	1/22/2007 3:20:17 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Thanks, Ben. I've long been aware of actual cases where WiFi is used for the sort of backhual purposes you and Peter have described, and even had a hand in specking at a conceptual level several short-haul links, myself, for inner-city use where line of sight existed. However, I suppose I'm still suffering the lingering effects of the Cantenna stigma associated with the Pringles potato chip can antenna, which, earlier on, equated WiFi backhual designs with hobbyists' open-source activities, or where a resident genius performs the necessary magic to make it all work, through multiple iterations of trial and error until finally getting it right. en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org How does the saying go? "You can only make one first impression, and it will be the most lasting one of them all?" (Oooh, I'll bet everyone can relate to that one!) Back to my question, in the cases that you cited, did you make use of off-the-self gear that was packaged and designed for the specific applications that you implemented, or did you personally (or did your associates) craft those links using ingenuity and know-how? Stated another way, did those fifteen miles of backhaul fall off the shelf and out of the box for you, as I would expect ordering an equivalent link from a WiMAX provider might work? FAC