Usually terribly placed, like a shotgun blast instead of strategic locations.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Lyon" <mike.l...@gmail.com> To: "Phil Bedard" <bedard.p...@gmail.com> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 9:23:46 PM Subject: Re: WiFI on utility poles And they are as annoying as f*&k! and litter the already noisy 5 Ghz unlicensed band, Hopefully, the sun will fry them dead over time. -Mike On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Phil Bedard <bedard.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are Comcast people on the list who may have more info, but it’s just > expansion of their WiFi hotspot network and part of the CableWifi > consortium. http://www.cablewifi.com, or you can go to > http://wifi.xfinity.com to see Comcast’s specific deployment. > > Cable companies have thousands of strand-mount Wifi APs deployed at this > point. > > > Phil > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: NANOG on behalf of "Michael T. Voity" > Organization: University of Vermont and State Agricultural College > Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 21:52 > To: <nanog@nanog.org> > Subject: Re: WiFI on utility poles > > >Sorry folks, attachment didn't work. Here is the link - > > > >https://www.uvm.edu/~mvoity/pole.JPG > > > >-Mike > > > >Michael Voity > >University of Vermont > > > >On 9/9/15 9:24 PM, Michael T. Voity wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Today another colleague and I discovered the famous 'xfinitywifi' > ,'CableWIFi', 'CoxWiFi' and a new one 'XFINITY' on our University campus. > After doing some poking around on campus we found these gems (attached > picture) on 2 utility poles that pass by our east campus. Standing > underneath it I got a -46 RSSI in both 5 and 2.4Ghz, maybe 75-100 yards > away inside our hockey fieldhouse, through lots of brick, cinder blocks > and metal, I was still picking the 2.4Ghz at -64. > >> > >> Looks like the unit is getting power from the coax. > >> > >> > >> My question is, I've done a little poking around and have not found > anything substantial to learn more information about this Comcast program. > >> > >> > >> Any insight would be nice! > >> > >> > >> Michael Voity > >> University of Vermont > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- Mike Lyon 408-621-4826 mike.l...@gmail.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlyon