Lucky in the sense that he went about it in a way that had promise of a solution - yes.
Lucky in the sense that his offices are better situated than his neighbour - no, not necessarily. He is situated a stones throw from the East end of Jersey Drive - not the highest location in that area. He was just desperate enough to pursue extreme possibilities.
Currently Modderfontein/Longmeadow is an area that dictates that one must go to extremes to set up - or better - RF links there.
My guess is that most would-be iBursters in that area, probably in ignorance, perhaps ill-advised or perhaps unwilling to make the effort/investment, are unaware that ANTENNA + HEIGHT = POSSIBILITY.
If an ANTENNA doesn't quite cut it (and there are so few current antenna options for iBursters) the total gain that the antenna renders can be "increased" by eliminating some of the loss (read: eliminating most of the antenna cable) and utilising PoE technology instead. In the height arena, PoE applications also leave greater flexibility.
If HEIGHT doesn't cut it there is probably only one thing to do: Wait for deployment of a nearer base station.
But the desperate don't want to resign themselves to waiting, do they? (So glad the waiting for the weekend is over!)
