Antenna Solution!!!

I just bought a property that is on the light green verge of the coverage map. I'm not going to support Telkom even if I have to use the 9600 connection through my cell phone. I think I should try the following antenna from Poynting:
Code: LPDA-A0021
Frequency: Band 1: 824 - 970
Band 2: 1710 - 2170
Gain: 11 dBi
Cost: R386.30 + VAT
and try the following (taken from a document on Poynting's web site):
An inconvenience of the simple outdoor antenna is the fact that the telephone has to be linked to this antenna using a cable that is specific to the make of cellular telephone. Only one person can therefore use the system at any one time only if the specific interface cable is available for that telephone. An elegant solution to this problem is provided by relatively low gain Bi-Directional Amplifiers (BDA’s). These devices are inserted between the outdoor high gain antenna and an indoor omnidirectional antenna. This gives the user wireless access inside a room or house. The system can also be simultaneously used by more than one user.

Does anyone know where I can get hold of a low gain Bi-Directional Amplifier in South Africa or any comments on what I'm trying to achieve.
 
Tryit, I don't follow. You posted on the Iburst forum. Are you intending to use Iburst, or a cell phone? If cellular, rather post on the Vodacom3G forum.
 
Ajax, I'm planning to use it with iburst. As I understand it, iburst use the 1.8Ghz frequency which is in the range of the antenna. All I need now is a low gain Bi-Directional Amplifier (3 - 20 m) that use the same frequency then i don't have to mess around with connecting the antenna cable to the iburst modem. I also won't loose signal strength because of the length of the cable and I can move the pc around in my house as I like without moving the antenna or cables.
 
Gatecrasher said:
Success!!! I made the Wet-11 parbolic reflector thingy, 240mm*120mm, Aluminium wrapped cardboard, with carboard frame, with UTD Iburst antenna poked through the focal point.
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I also made one of the Wet-11 parabolic reflectors and it works great. My signal is now consistently good and error rates are very low. According to DU Meter I achieved peaks over 200 KBytes/sec (yes Bytes/sec) downloading from tucows.is.co.za but average is 80 - 90 KB/sec. Made two frames so the reflector is always parallell.
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I think he had DU meter showing traffic for all interfaces which means it would count the traffic twice because I really dont think you can hit 200KB on iburst, and even if you could I bet its just a split second
 
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