Guys, I have wireless connection in my cafe for one
year now. So let me just tell you of some things to
consider if you decide to switch to WISP.
1. Most important: Who ownes the router and the
antenna? I had a terrible experience with this.
Radio cards that are installed in the router (mine is
from Ariola) suck. Within one year, I had to replace
5 radio cards since they just died. And of course,
most expensive thing inside the router is radio card.
I strongly suggest you that you pay little bit more
but have your WISP own the equipment and, of course,
provide maintainance for the time you use their
service. Even if you buy the equipment (router and
antenna) you will not fully own it since your WISP
will set a password to the router and you wont be a
ble to play with it. The reason that WISP will set a
password to the router is that the limit to the
bandwidth is set on the router. For your information,
router is a normal computer running on a special
version of Linux (P 200Mhz, 10Mb Flash HDD), has an
ethernet card and radio card.
2. Another thing to consider is where are u gonna put
your router. If your cafe is in a, say, 10 floor
building, and you're on a ground floor, it would be
very incovinient since the antenna and the router
can't be in distance larger than 9 meters (27feet)
between each other.
Finally, because of my terrible experience with WISP,
I just don't understand why would someone that has
access to DSL switch to Wireless. Here in Kosovo, I
pay 2000 DM/month (that is $1,000) for wireless 64Kbs
link because no other service such as cable, DSL, ISDN
exist. If I had access to DSL, and pay that ridiculus
price of 39.95 I would never even think of switching
to something else.
Check out this site for additional info on Wireless
equipment...there is a lot of description,
explanations and downloads:
http://www.mikrotik.com/
If anyone need any other specifcs on Wireless, just
email me I'll be glad to help you.
Arben.
--- Doug Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After your email I realized just how much I didn't
> know about WISP. I would be switching from DSL
> 128KBS
> $39.95 to WISP guaranteed 128KBS burstable to 1MBS
> for
> $90.00 per month and they have other plans to
> guaranteed 1MBS for $340.00 per month.
>
> The antenna would be appx 12 miles, and we have
> pretty
> good weather around here (North Texas) not the
> prettiest area around but it's livable. (barely)
>
> The equipment would run me $1500.00 and I get to
> keep
> it.
>
> I'm not sure on the Freq. hopper, the person I
> talked
> to new the basics.
>
> They have been offering services in town for quite a
> few years and they are a very dependable service but
> have only recently started to offer WISP.
>
> Let me know what you think of the pricing, to me
> $90.00 doesn't seem to bad. I'm not sure about the
> cost of equipment, whether that is good or not.
> Guaranteed 128KBS sounds nice and they said I will
> see
> a lot faster speeds than that for the most part.
>
> I could go either way on this, thanks for your
> input.
>
> Doug
>
>
> --- "Earl J. Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > At 04:43 AM 1/25/01 -0800, Doug Hooper wrote:
> > >Alright tell me all the reasons that I should not
> > >switch to a wireless ISP. I would have a small
> dish
> > >setting on top my building and my network within
> > would
> > >not change. (is what I'm told )
> > >
> > >Convince me not to switch.
> > >
> > >Doug
> >
> > Errrr... How about supplying the relevant
> > information?
> >
> > - Switch from what?
> > - What bandwidth do you have now?
> > - What are you paying for it?
> > - What bandwidth is the WISP guaranteeing?
> > - What will you be paying for that?
> > - How far apart will your antenna be from
> the
> > WISP's?
> > - What is the weather like in your area?
> (Do
> > you get
> > heavy rain? Snow?)
> > - What type of radio link is the WISP
> > offering?
> > (802.11, 802.11b or ???)
> > (2 Mbps equipment, 11 Mbps, or ???)
> > (Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum or
> > Direct
> > Sequence Spread Spectrum or ???)
> > - How long have the WISP been offering
> > wireless
> > service in your area?
> > - How many other wireless customers does the
> > WISP have?
> > - Have you talked to any of those customers
> to
> > find
> > out what their experiences have been?
> > - Are you buying the radio, and antenna
> > equipment on
> > your end, or does the WISP retain ownership?
> >
> > I think wireless is great stuff, and would
> > like to be
> > offering it to customers in my area (I'm a dial-up
> > ISP). So
> > far, we're still holding off on getting into it,
> > largely due
> > to the $$$ involved.
> >
> > Earl
> >
> >
> >
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