RE: Starting up a WiMAX ISP

2010-04-29 Thread Varaillon Jean Christophe
, legal complains, interferences...). Jean-Christophe VARAILLON -Original Message- From: Alexander Harrowell [mailto:a.harrow...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 2:29 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Starting up a WiMAX ISP On Wednesday 28 April 2010 03:13:24 John R. Levine

Re: Starting up a WiMAX ISP

2010-04-28 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Wednesday 28 April 2010 03:13:24 John R. Levine wrote: > > Of course what they offer over those "long long rural runs" and what they can > > actually provide are two different things. DSL performance decreases with > > distance rather dramatically.. > > That's what I thought, but my friend

Re: Starting up a WiMAX ISP

2010-04-27 Thread John R. Levine
Of course what they offer over those "long long rural runs" and what they can actually provide are two different things. DSL performance decreases with distance rather dramatically.. That's what I thought, but my friend out on the sheep farm in the next county says he gets 3Mb just like I do

Re: Starting up a WiMAX ISP

2010-04-27 Thread Bret Clark
John Levine wrote: package rate of $66. They offer 3MB DSL all over their service area, even those long long rural runs. You think you can compete with that? Of course what they offer over those "long long rural runs" and what they can actually provide are two different things. DSL perfor

Re: Starting up a WiMAX ISP

2010-04-27 Thread John Levine
>+ I have those numbers I can beat the pavement and find out what people >will pay for my service and then I will know based on my table if there >is a snowball's chance in hell of this working. Don't forget that you're competing against rural ILECs that drink deeply from the well of USF funding.

Re: Starting up a WiMAX ISP

2010-04-27 Thread Charles Bronson
cketg...@yahoo.com Sent: Tue, April 27, 2010 11:09:11 AM Subject: Re: Starting up a WiMAX ISP >I live in central / western New York state (think villages and farms). You might want to start by talking to Lightlink in Ithaca, which has been doing fixed wireless for years. R's, John

Re: Starting up a WiMAX ISP

2010-04-27 Thread Charles Bronson
cketg...@yahoo.com Sent: Tue, April 27, 2010 11:10:08 AM Subject: RE: Starting up a WiMAX ISP Interesting mission you have here. I'm in hudson valley region of NY. Have you done some research on the economics of this venture? Do you know if people would be willing to pay for higher speed internet ac

RE: Starting up a WiMAX ISP

2010-04-27 Thread Henson, Adam J. (ARC-IO)[PEROT SYSTEMS]
y the only option, you need to know about the Rural Utilities Service - USDA.gov/rus/   Adam Henson a...@nasa.gov From: Charles Bronson [packetg...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 7:00 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Starting up a WiMAX ISP Lo

Re: Starting up a WiMAX ISP

2010-04-27 Thread John Levine
>I live in central / western New York state (think villages and farms). You might want to start by talking to Lightlink in Ithaca, which has been doing fixed wireless for years. R's, John

Re: Starting up a WiMAX ISP

2010-04-27 Thread Ovidiu Neghina
Charles, That is not an easy journey. The radio part it itself is a dedicated department usually in a wireless operator(planning, coverage etc). Plus - how are you going to sustain this from buget perspective. Wimax is not future proof technology. All major wimax vendors have droped their support

Re: Starting up a WiMAX ISP

2010-04-27 Thread Larry Smith
On Tue April 27 2010 09:00, Charles Bronson wrote: > Looking for advice... > > I live in central / western New York state (think villages and farms). > There are a good number of hills but no mountains. I have solid LAN > experience and experience facing a smaller network to the Internet. I was > n

Starting up a WiMAX ISP

2010-04-27 Thread Charles Bronson
Looking for advice... I live in central / western New York state (think villages and farms). There are a good number of hills but no mountains. I have solid LAN experience and experience facing a smaller network to the Internet. I was network admin for a medium size enterprise network (I.e. de