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Originally Posted by Rock Steady
The BPL site lists WiFi mesh as an alternative. All these local goverments are granting contracts to build out WiFi mesh and no protesters are showing up.
Inevitable.
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Tell that to the BPL guys in Manassas, VA.
And as I said...I don't have to climb a pole to express myself on this score. I just have to have the best signal on my own equipment...you can hang anything you like on the pole outside; if the neighbors can't use it because my licenced signal is swamping it, your Part 15 usage will have to "accept the interference".
You guys should be thinking about alternative transports; S-band WiFi isn't suitable for the "last mile"...it's more like the "last 250 meters". Meshing is all well and good until you hit local saturation, then it goes in the toity...and with ever-increasing bandwidth demands, that's not all that far away.
Maybe you should be considering the "
broadband over gas lines" scheme. :-)
Of course, none of this matters if you've got enough VC money to keep you going to the IPO; then the music stops and everybody who can find a chair cashes out. Does your business plan tell you how many banner ads you have to sell to pay for and maintain an access point on every phone pole in town plus the associated backhaul?