Besides the Meter issue... its also a shared stream. So you get 10Mb across the whole building to share with all of your customers. That might be an issue, might not be.
I thought BPL was dead ;-D I'd personally still vote for VDSL though Daniel White 3-dB Networks http://www.3dbnetworks.com >-----Original Message----- >From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >Behalf Of Robert West >Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:46 PM >To: 'WISPA General List' >Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings > >Then I'd go with the Broadband over power line. Could also be a revenue >stream if you can lease the converter and a router the end user. Easy >to >install. Plugs right into any electrical outlet in the apartment. No >need >to worry about sharing Time Warner's cable, the electrical is part of >the >building! > >Bob- > > >-----Original Message----- >From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On >Behalf Of Jeff Yette >Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 4:29 PM >To: WISPA General List >Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings > >The Mikrotik might be the solution. No DirectTV - we are in Time >Warner territory so we competing in space where the apartments are >wired with Coax that TW owns. > >On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Robert West<robert.w...@just-micro.com> >wrote: >> I agree to that. For what you are doing, the Mikrotik would be a no >brainer >> to decide on. But that that, he's looking to install indoors with >many >> apartments. All the cordless phones, microwave ovens, baby monitors, >> wireless routers, PlayStations, Wii consoles and the like all about as >close >> as one could stand. Oh, and dunno the location but I've seen way too >many >> of these apartment complexes where each and every balcony has a >DirecTV >dish >> hung off it. A huge wall of DirecTV bouncing all over. With all this >RF >> concentrated in such a small place, what band should they be looking >at as >> well as antenna choice. I think THAT would be hard part to see what >would >> work reliably before sinking cash into the accessories for that MT >board. >> >> Bob- >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] >On >> Behalf Of David E. Smith >> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 3:08 PM >> To: WISPA General List >> Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings >> >> Jeff Yette wrote: >>> To clarify, we are not looking for a hosted application, but more of >a >>> home-grown solution. We have all of the components for billing, >which >>> will automatically create a radius account and e-mail, we have online >>> billing and web-mail - the only part is the is missing is the web >>> authentication piece. >> >> If you're willing to roll your own, Mikrotik RouterOS has built-in >> hotspot functionality that can easily be configured to talk to your >> RADIUS server of choice. The ugly-but-functional version can probably >be >> going in an hour; you'll want to make your own pretty login page and >do >> some other cosmetic tweaks, but those aren't too difficult either. >> >> David Smith >> MVN.net >> >> >> >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >---- >> ---- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >---- >> ---- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> >> >> >> >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >---- >---- >> WISPA Wants You! 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