If you run across any you think are terribly placed, feel free to email Corey and Ken with the location and your thoughts on better placement.
- Jason On 9/9/15, 10:31 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Mike Hammett" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: >Usually terribly placed, like a shotgun blast instead of strategic >locations. > > > > >----- >Mike Hammett >Intelligent Computing Solutions >http://www.ics-il.com > > > >Midwest Internet Exchange >http://www.midwest-ix.com > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Mike Lyon" <[email protected]> >To: "Phil Bedard" <[email protected]> >Cc: "NANOG" <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 9:23:46 PM >Subject: Re: WiFI on utility poles > >And they are as annoying as f*&k! and litter the already noisy 5 Ghz >unlicensed band, Hopefully, the sun will fry them dead over time. > >-Mike > > >On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Phil Bedard <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> There are Comcast people on the list who may have more info, but it¹s >>just >> expansion of their WiFi hotspot network and part of the CableWifi >> consortium. http://www.cablewifi.com, or you can go to >> http://wifi.xfinity.com to see Comcast¹s specific deployment. >> >> Cable companies have thousands of strand-mount Wifi APs deployed at >>this >> point. >> >> >> Phil >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: NANOG on behalf of "Michael T. Voity" >> Organization: University of Vermont and State Agricultural College >> Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 21:52 >> To: <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: WiFI on utility poles >> >> >Sorry folks, attachment didn't work. Here is the link - >> > >> >https://www.uvm.edu/~mvoity/pole.JPG >> > >> >-Mike >> > >> >Michael Voity >> >University of Vermont >> > >> >On 9/9/15 9:24 PM, Michael T. Voity wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> Today another colleague and I discovered the famous 'xfinitywifi' >> ,'CableWIFi', 'CoxWiFi' and a new one 'XFINITY' on our University >>campus. >> After doing some poking around on campus we found these gems (attached >> picture) on 2 utility poles that pass by our east campus. Standing >> underneath it I got a -46 RSSI in both 5 and 2.4Ghz, maybe 75-100 yards >> away inside our hockey fieldhouse, through lots of brick, cinder blocks >> and metal, I was still picking the 2.4Ghz at -64. >> >> >> >> Looks like the unit is getting power from the coax. >> >> >> >> >> >> My question is, I've done a little poking around and have not found >> anything substantial to learn more information about this Comcast >>program. >> >> >> >> >> >> Any insight would be nice! >> >> >> >> >> >> Michael Voity >> >> University of Vermont >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > > >-- >Mike Lyon >408-621-4826 >[email protected] > >http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlyon > >
