On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Dustin Goodwin wrote: > Alex, I have been working on: http://www.nycwireless.net/unwireapt > > I didn't know what to put in for a realistic estimate on cabling costs > per AP. $300-$1000 is too large of a range to be useful. What do you > think the average would be? Because this all really depends on number of floors, cooperation of building management, etc.
Building management: a) may just say "hell no, we won't let you", and they have a right to do so (supreme court case, sometime in 1985 or so). b) they may require you to present *drawings* prior to doing any fiber pulls. That costs money. Lots of it. c) they may require you to use a licensed electrician to do that. Consider that labor cost for that is ~40$/hr. d) if this is a high-rise building, there's a chance the building is union-only. Union electricians will cost you 80-120$/hr and up. You may or may not be able to use CWA guy, at 50-75$/hr. e) they may require you to put all copper in a conduit. That costs money and time. f) they may or may not cooperate allowing you access to riser, and/or requiring riser run to be run by electrician. There are hell of a lot of variables in this picture. For reference, in a building I'm in, I was charged 1900$ to run two 100' laterals with cat5 cable. This was probably the worst case scenario. (copper placed in conduit, work performed by local 3 labor). An estimate was "line the copper route with 10$ bills, and that's how much it'll cost ya". A better estimate, for an average residential building, with management on board, is probably 2$ per foot of inside wiring. -alex -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
