fish living simply outside a little rural town isnt precisely swimming in internet alternatives: Theres no broadband, and the local telephone company wont provide DSL to fishs house.
That left dial-up-- until I discovered WiMax, which permitted line-of-site connection via a directional antenna on the house roofing system indicated a transmitter on the city water tower five miles away, states fish.
This worked excellent, and with UPSes, all the PCs and network devices were safeguarded from the different power blackouts, power spikes and brownouts that came our way on a fairly routine basis.
But one night theres a not-so-regular occurrence: A twister roars through and tears things up.
After the storm, fish finds that his power lines are down and the WiMax directional antenna has been moved from the roofing to a neighboring tree limb.