Internet has been a interesting concept in the Russian Village, we have tried just literally every way to get connection and in the last few years we had 2G and it worked extremely slow but steady. Then Sveta found a coverage map for our area and we came upon the realization that 3G was about 100 meters down the hill from us and when they say, “The dark green area is 3G and it ends at the lake edge!” Then they are serious, it ended at the lake edge and 2G extended all the way into the deep dark woods behind us, for kilometers…
What to do? How to go from a snails crawl to a Jackalopes stride? Answer…
A Yagi external antennae and mount it on the outside of the building as high as you can reach, aim it at the local cell tower (somewhere in Siberia) and couple it to a internal mobile modem inside the home, with shielded low loss coaxial data cable and walla walla bing bang; steady three bar 3G Jackalope internet. For the less adventurous and idiots like me, just buy a special kit with everything included from the cell providers office…
Disclaimer; This is not in anyway a guarantee that it will work in another situation and in any location on earth. This is only tested by me and I can attest to the fact that it is able to pull a signal from as far away as Siberia, Russia (6000 to 7000 non-verified kilometers) to my cabin in the little village called Sunrise to Freedom. So your mileage may vary and in fact you may get no mileage at all as it is designed in a country that uses the metric system and kilometers would most likely be the best way to look at mileage…
Now a good question was, “How did you realize, that that you could do this simple act of magic to bring a signal in and have Siberian cell signal available?” And another good question is, “How did you aim the direction Yagi to such perfection?”
Simple, I studied the Cell Phone Payphone that they (government of Russia) installed in all the villages and they use a Yagi in our village to help the phone get reception. Then as the years went by I noticed that in the big villages, with good cell phone reception, they did not have these Yagi magic devices attached to the payphones. Then in a moment of clarity; It struck me that we can use an antennae also. For the payphone is 200 meters from the line of sudden cell phone death…
Then I looked at the payphone and determined the direction that they pointed the signal gathering device and when I realized it was approximately pointing at the planet Venus in the sky, I then had my coordinates and therefore, a signal to have internet with…
(I also had to try various positions until I found a happy spot and I found that spot after about 45 mosquitoes had drained my blood!)
It worked and for almost two days we have been playing with high speed internet and last night Sveta was a happy camper as she was able to get to her English learners and approve their applications…
I had just temporarily install the device to see if it would work and told Sveta, “I need to move it and we can make it better!” The look of horror on Sveta’s face, gave me the answer, she is happy and if I move it, she may be unhappy, for it works and works good enough to make my Sweetie very happy…
Now isn’t that what life is really about, “A Happy Sweetie!”
Post by Kyle Keeton
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