Re: [WISPA] CableWIFI?

2014-01-03 Thread Zach Mann
Spot on... this is helping them with retention believe it or not. And when 802.11u becomes more mainstream they will be involved in the cellular hand-off as well. Don't forget social data gathering as well. On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 6:11 PM, ralph wrote: > I will tell you exactly what it is. I

Re: [WISPA] CableWIFI?

2014-01-03 Thread ralph
I will tell you exactly what it is. I am very familiar: Cable Companies discovered that they could easily offer roaming WiFi to their existing customers by utilizing their existing strand and 90 volt power riding it to add access points. Not in the sense of full Metro WiFi (like MuniWiFi) but more

Re: [WISPA] CableWIFI?

2014-01-03 Thread Nick Olsen
We see them here all the time. Both CableWIFI, BrightHouseNetworks (The name of the cable company) as well as hidden SSID's. They have been stringing them around the county for awhile now. Even started to deploy on 5Ghz. It's pretty ridiculous. Do a site-survey from one of your towers and watch

Re: [WISPA] CableWIFI?

2014-01-03 Thread Mike Lyon
Oh yay! More noise! On Jan 3, 2014, at 10:58, Zach Mann wrote: They are Ruckus AP's broadcasting at FULL POWER. These AP's are mostly Strand mount ap's. 7782's. On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Mike Lyon wrote: > Startting to see this SSID pop up around town. > > How is this conglomerat

Re: [WISPA] CableWIFI?

2014-01-03 Thread Zach Mann
They are Ruckus AP's broadcasting at FULL POWER. These AP's are mostly Strand mount ap's. 7782's. On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Mike Lyon wrote: > Startting to see this SSID pop up around town. > > How is this conglomerate setting up it's APs? Are the likes of comcast > and such just addi

Re: [WISPA] Solution to Regulate Video Streaming?

2014-01-03 Thread Butch Evans
On 01/02/2014 01:15 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: > or a lot of time developing regexs and other things needed for Mikrotik > or various other routing\firewall engines. There is a lot that Mikrotik can do, but there is no comparison to a dedicated box like Procera. Swiss army knife can cut down a tree

[WISPA] CableWIFI?

2014-01-03 Thread Mike Lyon
Startting to see this SSID pop up around town. How is this conglomerate setting up it's APs? Are the likes of comcast and such just adding add'l SSIDs to users gateways / cable modems or are they actually deploying dedicated infrastructure? -Mike ___ Wi

[WISPA] Wanted: Canopy PMP100 2.4Ghz Equipment

2014-01-03 Thread Chris Fabien
We have several towers we need to switch off of legacy equipment, that don't justify PMP450. I will eventually need about 10 APs and ~100 SMs of PMP100 2.4Ghz. Need high gain antenna (reflector or grid) for the SMs. P9+ preferred, a mix with some P8 can work. Please email me offlist to let me know