I should have been more specific: the building could blanket all the tenants with a mesh multi-tenant wifi system like those from Motorola (née Symbol) or Colubris (now HP). I'm sure there are several dozen vendors making systems like that now, those are the two I have used. -Adam
David Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: >On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Adam Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> At that level of penetration, it would be good practice for the building to >> become it's own ISP... Likely too late for that, though. > >I cringe to go yet further on this tangent, but I have to ask, "why?". >Unless the building managers have some exclusivity contract with some >other ISP, what would stop them from becoming their own? Even then, >they might be able to arrange a bulk contract with the ISP and handle >their own distribution. > >Even if retrofitting cat 5/6 isn't an option at this point, on-site >VDSL is a great alternative in many MDUs. > >But, then, you still have the problem of individual tenants plugging >in their own AP, unless you figure out a way to effectively train them >to turn the power way down, or do it for them. > >db >_______________________________________________ >List mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
