Being in about a rural place as you can imagine....West Texas, 60 miles from a "large" ? 60k city...I'm 10 miles from my wireless ISP.
We've had pitiful phone line service in the past and now we have FAST, 24/7 internet!!!
I would suggest forgetting the pringles can route.
I have one and firmly believe for a permanent installation, you should get a +/- 21 dB : "bbq grill" dish antenna.
Mount it securely on a tower and it will be there for the long haul.
The pringles can is ok but for a few bucks more,( my dish cost me $65.00 ), the dish is substantially more stable, higher gain, and will no doubt last longer than the can. Save the can for war-driving.
Either tie the dish to a Power over internet router via cat 5 cable or if you have some good heliax coaxial cable, run it down to your WiFi card.
I use both. POI router at 60 feet down to a laptop in my barn and a coaxial run from another dish at 85 feet to a Orinoco Gold card in my desktop then thru a router /switch to my home network...either way works slick but being 10 miles from transmitter...my antennas are at 65 and 85 feet...you may not need that kind of height hopefully .
Anyway, WiFi is the greatest for rural areas and I hope I never use a dialup modem again!!!
Your ISP provider should have some good ideas for solid copy of the signal because afterall, he needs you be a satisfied in order to get more subcscribers.
If you need any help, contact me anytime.
John
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