NewsWhore
09-29-2008, 02:20 PM
The story of Jean Carlos de Leon, who lives in the rural town of La Yautia in the province of Monte Plata, shows again that where there is a will, there is a way, as reported in Listin Diario. Who would believe that there could be a Wi-Fi Internet connection in that remote farming region? Jean Carlos de Leon is a second semester industrial engineering student at the UASD state university. Piecing together discarded parts, he was able to put together a computer using an old 2000 IBM at the house where he lives with his 80-year old grandmother, Dona Aurelia. When there is electricity, he can connect to the Internet free of charge thanks to his home-made connection consisting of an old aluminum pot, a cable and a piece of copper. The antenna is on top of a 40-meter tall coconut palm, and receives the Dominican Telecommunications Institute's Broad Band Rural Connectivity Project's signal from Los Botados, several kilometers away. To set up his connection, de Leon first asked the person in charge of the rural program how the signals were received.
Jean Carlos was used to repairing any old electronic or electrical equipment he could get his hands on, so he decided to rig up an antenna and did so in just one day. He explains that the pot works as a mirror and prevents the signal from going in just one direction.
His friend Wilfrido de Paula, also from La Yautia, made a slightly different antenna. His device is also located in his back yard and uses a similar aluminum pot, held up by a long stick of sugar cane. See
www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=75379 (http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=75379)
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Jean Carlos was used to repairing any old electronic or electrical equipment he could get his hands on, so he decided to rig up an antenna and did so in just one day. He explains that the pot works as a mirror and prevents the signal from going in just one direction.
His friend Wilfrido de Paula, also from La Yautia, made a slightly different antenna. His device is also located in his back yard and uses a similar aluminum pot, held up by a long stick of sugar cane. See
www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=75379 (http://www.listin.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=75379)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)