Microwave wifi technology

Hi there,

I have probably posted this thread in the wrong area, however, I was just wondering. I get aching slow internet (59Kbps download) and this is due I think to a 5 mile copper cable to our nearest fibre optic point. A friend and I in our village are getting fed up and he is struggling to do work. We were wondering whether microwave technology would work. The only thing is I don't have a clue how it works, what needs to be bought etc. Could somebody please help me??? Any help would be much appreciated.

Firstly don't know speed, 5 miles of copper cable to nearest fiber point. However, I think speed is supposed to be higher. The village/council would hopefully fund it is we got people to complain about it. I was thinking dish from last fiber point 5 miles of visual sight to top of village windmill or church, maybe new wind turbines that are going up in the next year? then each house have a dish to receive data from the windmill, turbine etc. The other option is to run a cable from the dish on windmill... to each house, will defintely improve connection. What do you guys think??? We are paying Zen but it is BT broadband and I don't think that it is my router. Also, we aren't going to get fibres in our village for a long time, I think we are low down on the list, only got broadband about 7 years ago I think. Anyway, please tell me what you guys think!!!

That looks very expensive for a home user!!! The idea of the microwave dish was to cut out the massive copper cable. I thought maybe you could then just connect the receiver dish to the cables going to our houses. This is not on an individual scale, I am doing this for a village of 400 or so!!! Apparently there is a company in Rutland, that is all I know and apparently they aren't too expensive! Obviously you guys think differently!!! My neighbour says he gets 1.3mbps up the line, i get 59kbps when I download a file, google chrome tells me the speed at which it is downloading. Still interesting to here others thoughts though, so please do keep them coming!!!