I am curious as to how many customers the people on this list have. Also,
I am wondering what percentage of sB equipment is used and the CPE setup of
choice. What do you use for access points? How many do you have and how
many customers per AP? I think this info could be helpful for everyone on
this list including smartBridges support.
Personally, I am running about 50 customers. Would have more, but I have
turned a few away as they are too high maintenance. Since I do all the
installs and 95% of the support myself, I don't want any extra
headaches. We are also a well established dialup ISP so wireless customers
are not essential to our survival. We only started offering wireless
because it was an extra source of income and would save us money by getting
the leeches off dialup onto broadband. Since a channelized T1 is not a
cheap thing around here, any way we can reduce the number of lines required
is a good thing.
We have two Orinoco/Lucent/Agere AP's that service all of our town
(population of about 6000) and a good part of the surrounding area. With
the exception of two WET11's that I don't want to pull until they die, we
are running entirely airBridges. All customers use aB indoor radios but
employees use aB outdoor units. Customers installs usually are a 12dBi
panel running with a short pigtail to a NEMA box with the aB indoor in
it. We then run CAT5 into the house to the PoE injector then straight to a
router. The typical router is a Linksys BEFSX41 which is a 4 port switch
with a WAN link.
--Blaine
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