In the 802.11 space, there have been a bunch of multihop (roof-to-roof) vendors over the years. I once stayed in a rural house that had such a setup. It worked well, when it worked, and spent minutes at a time completely failing to work.
I had this as well, once. And had the same experience. When it worked, it worked well, and when it went down it, was hell. Because my provider was the Local Rural Internet Dude, his transceivers were homegrown jobs running embedded linux and flash memory. We had a lot of discussions about how much the Empeg and his transceivers were similar to each other in design and kernel implementation. Anyway, the problem is that his stuff kept going down and would stay down for days at a time.
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