[smartBridges] WISP survey

[Blaine Fleming]

I am curious as to how many customers the people on this list have.  Also, 
I am wondering what percentage of sB equipment is used and the CPE setup of 
choice.  What do you use for access points?  How many do you have and how 
many customers per AP?  I think this info could be helpful for everyone on 
this list including smartBridges support.

Personally, I am running about 50 customers.  Would have more, but I have 
turned a few away as they are too high maintenance.  Since I do all the 
installs and 95% of the support myself, I don't want any extra 
headaches.  We are also a well established dialup ISP so wireless customers 
are not essential to our survival.  We only started offering wireless 
because it was an extra source of income and would save us money by getting 
the leeches off dialup onto broadband.  Since a channelized T1 is not a 
cheap thing around here, any way we can reduce the number of lines required 
is a good thing.

We have two Orinoco/Lucent/Agere AP's that service all of our town 
(population of about 6000) and a good part of the surrounding area.  With 
the exception of two WET11's that I don't want to pull until they die, we 
are running entirely airBridges.  All customers use aB indoor radios but 
employees use aB outdoor units.  Customers installs usually are a 12dBi 
panel running with a short pigtail to a NEMA box with the aB indoor in 
it.  We then run CAT5 into the house to the PoE injector then straight to a 
router.  The typical router is a Linksys BEFSX41 which is a 4 port switch 
with a WAN link.

--Blaine

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