Nextweb and etheric are the other two wisp's in the bay area. Nextweb uses Trango gear and is decent.
Raj -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matt Almgren Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 1:37 PM To: Dan Fitzpatrick Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [BAWUG] Co-op in Santa Clara ? See Inline... --- Dan Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I work for/co-own an ISP based out of Santa Clara and I'm not > familiar > with a WISP operating in the area. >The only WISP that may cover this > area > that I can think of is Gate Speed. Ya.. and I'm gonna pay up the kazoo for service. "1 Mb/s link is $299/month*" No thanks. >We've toyed with the idea but the > biggest problem is the lack of tall buildings and hills combined with > the > spread of the city. There are a few tallish structures like the dorms > at > USC and the Central computer building and a few communications and > water > towers that dot the landscape but nothing that would be worth it as far > as > covering a huge area. You've already read my mind. I've had my eye on Central Computer building too. > > With all this combined with the fact that running a WISP is a support > head ache we chose not to offer wireless service. It was outside the > focus > of our core business anyway. You're right the support would be horrendous for us to maintain for a WISP. That is why I am thinking small... maybe just enough subs to cover the cost of the infrastructure. Maybe 20 or so just to get started. Honestly, at this time, I'm not in it to make money. I just want to provide cheap, fast, Internet service. Experiment, if you will call it that, but hope not to lose my ass in the process. Thanks, Matt > > Dan. > Layer42.Net > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 03:09:56PM -0700, Matt Almgren wrote: > > Does anyone know of a co-op or cheap WISP either starting or already > > formed in Santa Clara ? Not the county, but the city. If so, please > > send me any pertinent information. I am familiar with BARWN, but it > > doesn't seem to stretch that far down into the south bay. I'd like > to > > get involved with either helping with network infrastructure or just > > being a client. > > > > Thanks, > > Matt > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > -- > > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
