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Originally Posted by MaggieL
Tell that to the BPL guys in Manassas, VA.
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As the site said, BPL is not WiFi mesh.
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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".
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So you would mess up the signal simply because you can? I don't see what you would gain by screwing around with a ligitimate business. Show up at the Jeffersonville city council meeting and raise objections before it happens.
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Originally Posted by MaggieL
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.
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They put the boxes 1,000 feet apart. My high-up friend at Intel told me that this is commodity technology that's cheap enough to make these networks feasible.
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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.
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I don't appreciate your mean spirited comments when you inject them. It's as if I called you a "dyke".
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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?
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This is getting into information I can't say because of NDA. After going over these details with the CEO, I was satifisfied with required number of impressions and Effective CPM to make this profitable. It seems like a realistic plan.