Depending on distance and terrain. Could you get by with midpoint cheap links to the existing customers and use the midpoints to pick up some other unserved along the way? Youre already looking at alot of money to ensure future obsolescence, so whats a little more money to potentially be competitive? There are fiber magicians lurking the list who could maybe even help you justify some duct in the earth in some places, fiber never has line of site problems and duct is never not valuable to someone
On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 11:32 AM, Carl Peterson <cpeter...@portnetworks.com> wrote: > If I tried to tell my partner that we needed to drop 60K on equipment for > 1K per month in revenue I would get laughed out of the room. > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Steve Jones <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> if you are in the US, the "smart grid" is coming to help you by answering >> your questions for you >> >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Kurt Fankhauser < >> lists.wavel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> So I have 2% of my customer base that is running 900mhz PMP100 using 11 >>> different access points. I am trying to cost justify weather it is feasible >>> to upgrade them to PMP450i-900mhz. I am using a lot of Omni's with the >>> PMP100 so most likely I will need twice as many AP's as I currently have >>> because they won't all be on the same side of the towers. So looking at >>> costs I see the following: >>> >>> PMP450i AP's x 20 = $46,000 >>> 900mhz sectors x 20 = $6,320 >>> PMP450 SM x 20 = $4,784 >>> SM antenna x 20 = $1,424 >>> >>> equipment cost total = $58,528 >>> plus my time of putting it all up >>> >>> I am currently grossing $934.00/month from the 2% of customers running >>> on the PMP100-900mhz now. >>> >>> At this rate it would take 5 years to break even on deploying the >>> 450i-900mhz and I really can't offer any better speeds with it than what I >>> was able to offer with the old FSK 2.4/5ghz stuff. >>> >>> Is it just me or does this not make sense worth deploying? >>> >> >> > > > -- > > Carl Peterson > > *PORT NETWORKS* > > 401 E Pratt St, Ste 2553 > <https://maps.google.com/?q=401+E+Pratt+St,+Ste+2553%0D+Baltimore,+MD+21202&entry=gmail&source=g> > > Baltimore, MD 21202 > <https://maps.google.com/?q=401+E+Pratt+St,+Ste+2553%0D+Baltimore,+MD+21202&entry=gmail&source=g> > > (410) 637-3707 >
