Another choice may be http://www.hobnob.com/ . This is the managed solution that Google uses for their staff commuter buses in Silicon Valley. This solution connects to the 4 major US carriers and aggregates traffic using multiple radio cards to each carrier. This way they are able to get more complete network coverage. If one carrier has a dead spot, the system switches to another carrier. They are able to achieve 100Kbits/sec or better. The guy from Google who presented this was very positive about the performance.
Fred

On 12/14/2010 8:39 AM, Wier, Timothy A. wrote:
You might want to look at Cradlepoint - http://www.cradlepoint.com/. Never used 
one on a bus be we use them in a few remote classrooms where we cannot setup 
anything long term.  Gives you the option to have more than 5 users and 
multiple vendors by just swapping out the USB modem.


Tim Wier
Network Manager
Concordia University
tim.w...@cuchicago.edu
708-209-3565


-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv 
[mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Nathan Hay
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 9:24 AM
To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU
Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Providing wireless on a tour bus

Has anyone installed a wireless system on a tour bus that is traveling cross 
country?  Our athletics department would like to outfit their bus for long 
trips to games.

My first thought was to get enough mobile hotspots (perhaps from various 
vendors) to cover the number of users at 5 users each (the typical limit).  I 
could also try a 4G USB modem bridged across a small PC to share that link.  
For best signal, I imagine that an antenna on the roof would be best.

Has anyone done this before?

Thanks,

Nathan





Nathan P. Hay
Network Engineer, Computer Services
Cedarville University
937-766-7905
www.cedarville.edu

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