Why run ethernet? This seems ideal for fiber. Put a small box for the ONT on the same pole as the electrical hookup with about 20 ft of ethernet cable so they can drag it through a window and call it a day. Rent them a cheap router if they want wifi or mount a small loco ac or something running as a low powered AP and alternate frequencies every 3 or 4 spaces.
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 2:57 PM, Colin Stanners <cstann...@gmail.com> wrote: > Be careful of selling service over Wi-FI... customers buy "signal > boosters" that run their own DHCP server, or they see a very strong signal > to their booster and complain that their service sucks (don't understand > that the signal from the booster to your network is low). And there's > interference from mobile hotspots etc.... > > I would do like Adam says, run ethernet lines everywhere with > outdoor-grade ethernet connection boxes (make sure to have a surge > protector on each line as it returns to your switch). You can try offering > some service over wifi but tell customers that if they want reliable speeds > they need to hardwire. > > On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 1:07 PM, castarritt <castarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> We were approached by a current subscriber who is building an RV park >> with around ~100 pads, and he wants us to offer service to his tenants. >> This isn't the typical situation where we would sell service to the RV >> park, and they handle distributing it to their customers. He wants to >> avoid providing wi-fi himself, and will instead let us charge every client >> that wants service separately. Also, this isn't a campground; his shortest >> lease term will be monthly. >> >> While the park is under construction, he is willing to let us lay >> conduit, so we could provide wired service to each pad if we wanted to. >> Alternatively, we could just setup a bunch of wi-fi APs. One potential >> complication is that we have a fairly busy cluster of 5g PMP450s a couple >> hundred yards from this RV park, so while wired service could be more >> reliable for the park tenants, the potential for 100 customer wi-fi routers >> we can't control operating within sight of our PMP450 POP sounds like the >> stuff of nightmares. >> >> We are leaning more towards a wi-fi option due to better control over >> spectrum, as well as avoiding maintenance of 100 outdoor ethernet ports >> that the customers would be plugging into, but we are open to suggestions. >> >> Also, assuming wi-fi is the correct answer, does anyone have any >> equipment recommendations? The park is about 400' by 900'. I was looking >> at either doing a whole bunch of low end APs, or maybe ~8 sectors. We >> haven't used any of the Cambium wi-fi gear yet, but the cnPilot E501S looks >> interesting. >> >> >> Thank you, >> >> Chris Starritt >> Western Broadband >> supp...@ecpi.com >> 512-257-1077 >> > >
