Hi Chris: My original plan was to seed a square mile with 100 ($100 sponsored) meraki repeaters, connected to 4-6 landline drops, with $50 base-stations available for resale. but I now believe that there are better options, including using DSS as a primary backhaul with a few DSL drops in the mix and low-cost linux base-stations (hubs/routers)
Just briefly running through my notes, insofar as gear, I would start my search at http://metrix.net/ 'official sponsor' (as it were) of the CWN group - they appear to have some cool stuff for cheap. and also check out http://pyramid.metrix.net/ and if disenchanted w/the likes of a meraki solution go with Soekris, maybe in combo with WRT54G wireless routers running Freifunk firmware [freifunk.net] Note, I'm not a 'wires-n-lines' guy so I defer to Dave as a authority on this subject and could be speaking from arse, but (i believe) VOIP will require directional antennas to reduce latency On a small budgete scale: a good WiFi signal with a 24 dB dish (~$60) http://www.asecular.com/ 14dB Outdoor Yagi Antenna [newegg.com] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833998003 14dB Directional Antenna [newegg.com] http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16833164156 500mW Signal Booster [newegg.com] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833130039 http://www.tranzeo.com/products/radios/TR-6000-Series with 2 high-gain directional dish antennas and 2 bi-directional amplifiers. OR: use 2 or more sets of the following: Waterproof casing - $10-30 Parabolic antenna 24dBi (N female connector) - Hyperlink, PacificWireless, Andrew - cost about US $75 LMR195/240/400 (rpSMA to N male) pigtail, 0.6m, 3m or more in length - cost from US$10 to US$20(3m) Wireless router - Buffalo, Linksys - and put DDwrt in them they are about 50-70$ each http://www.dd-wrt.org/ Ecellent alternative are Mikrotik routers, a bit more expensive ($100) but much more flexible (http://www.mikrotik.com) they also sell complete devices integrated in antennas) HeroLogic, a startup hopes to challenge Soekris and PC Engines for low cost, low power networking platforms running Linux. Their HL-463 system ($300) comes with 256MB of SDRAM soldered onboard, a miniPCI slot, a CompactFlash slot, 4 x USB ports and 3 x 10/100 Ethernet ports. http://ecommerce.herologic.com/oscommerce/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=62 http://www.soekris.com/ http://www.pcengines.ch/ Saxnet's meshnodeIII is pretty interesting: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS3716484588.html (L-R) Xirrus's 16-radio XS-3900, 8-radio XS-3700, and 4-radio XS-3500 - http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS6959431443.html The Qorvus Qnode™ industrial wireless networking system utilizes 2.4 and 5.8 gigahertz wireless mesh technology, a low-cost, robust, and reliable alternative to the traditional higher-priced wireless PtP or PtMP Internet or Local-Area Network distribution approach Qorvas' Qcode supports the popular Atheros-based modular radios including the Ubiquity SR-2, SR-5, SR-900, Wistron CM9, and most Prism-based radios such as the Senao 2511mp and Zcomax XI-325HP, on all standard bands including 900 Mhz, 2.4 Ghz, 4.9 Ghz, and 5.1 to 5.8 Ghz. Power levels are adjustable within the constraints of applicable regulations and modular radio limitations. www.staros.com (software and hardware), purporting starOS to be cheaper and offering more than: http://www.trangobroadband.com/technology/point_to_point.shtml Another source of hardware is www.wlanparts.com (Pasadena wireless). Slightly dated resources: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/hardware/wireless/wireless-details.html http://www.qsl.net/n9zia/wireless/page11.html (page08 or page09 has some usefull scripts, btw) http://w3.antd.nist.gov/wctg/manet/adhoclinks.html or, you could try: www.gatr.com (smiles) Please note that despite my last of expertise with equipment, i've spent considerable time researching this subject, including revenue models, promotion, etc... and have some informed ideas on the matter. The mwiki i put up on iostreams.net begins to address some of these areas. Email me offline and i'll provide a guest pass for access, if you like. HTH Rion On Wednesday 19 August 2009, chris yarger wrote: > as i now presented a similar idea to my boss he is wondering what it would > take hardware wise to set up a wifi network for mile around us and provide > wifi to the business and residential consumers nearby , > what type of hardware would provide this ability to both transmit and > recieve the signals? > warmest regards, > > Chris Yarger > > web: http://YargerDesigns.org > skype: cpyarger > msn: [email protected] > aim: patyarg > yahoo: christoyarg > > > ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign > X against HTML e-mail > / \ > -- 3010 Rte 109 Waterville, VT 05492 email: rion_at_dluz.com web: http://dluz.com/Rion/ AIM/Jabber/Google: riondluz Phone: 802.644.2255 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/6/126/769 The difference between genius and foolishness is that genius has limits
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
