The Tropos gear really works well for outdoor WiFi. All others you should really stear clear of as there will be problems.
If you can get access to the 3.65GHz band, you should definately do it. It is much less expensive and more effective then wifi for citywide coverage. I would recomend you use either Redline or Alvarion WiMAX gear in that band. Alvarion is 16e (mobile) but more complex. Redline is easier and less expensive but is 16d (fixed). Both work amazing. tyler ----- Original Message ----- From: "Caleb Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 4:46 PM Subject: [ptp-general] Re: If the City seizes and removes MetroFi's gear... > >>> On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Thomas Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>>> Too bad they chose such crappy gear, we might have been able to use it. >> >> I'm not certain that's entirely true. I think it's fair to say the >> gear was ill-suited to accomplish what they were after, at the density >> they adopted. It might be useful for something, if only to allow us to >> determine the relative crappiness of it. > > Mike is absolutely right, Tom. MetroFi had issues because (1) their > business model didn't generate revenue and (2) they severely > under-deployed the network hoping to save money. Clearly #1 and #2 are > related. As far as I can tell, the Skypilot routers are just swell (if a > little expensive) provided they are deployed with appropriate density. > > Of course, we shouldn't expect them to do any better than any other > outdoor point-to-multipoint 802.11-based hardware (which will all suck > to some degree, since it's probably not the ideal technology for the > task). > > -- > Caleb Phillips > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
