What happens when a potential customer sees the competition's name? They call the competitor who says, "We don't do that."  Then what, do you get called by the competitor?
I guess my question is, how does advertising the competitor's name help you?

I like the wholesale idea though.  I may have to pursue that in the future.

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From: Rick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:15:08 -0500
Subject: RE: [WISPA] Virtual AP

> Yep, I create virtual SSIDs for all my competitors names (they only do DSL) :)
>
> I also wholesale service off one of my towers via 2.4 and 900 mhz to a local computer guy that likes to see his name "in the air" -
> the virtual SSID thing was a natural win...
>
> Not sure about the broadcast thing...haven't seen a performance hit because of the virtual ssid's ...
> R
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete Davis
> Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 9:57 AM
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> Subject: [WISPA] Virtual AP
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> Mikrotik APs have the capability to create a "Virtual AP" with a secondary SSID, but I haven't found much documentation about it.
>
> Has anyone used this feature much? I could see this being useful during a transitional period, while you are changing the SSID, so
> you can access the CPE with the "old" ssid.
> I could also see this being useful for colocating two companies on the same tower/AP, like if you have an ISP geared toward
> residential service, and another company name/marketing scheme for business customers.
> I don't know what kind of performance impact there is when you create a bunch of APs on one radio.
>
> I had a wierd thought about this, however: If I have 40 clients on an AP, and set up 40 "virtual AP's" on the network with each
> client on his own SSID, do they count as 40 PTP links, allowing me to kick up the antenna gain like with the CPE?
>
> Does the virtual AP really broadcast a secondary SSID, or does it switch between the two rapidly, kind of like a poor man's Time
> Division Multiplexing.
>
> Pete Davis
> NoDial.net
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