I don't know, but I think I'd run point-to-point wireless to the building and then run DSL in the building. I think it would be more reliable.
--Curtis Robert West 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! 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! 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/
