If you have a competitor on a nearby tower who is uncooperative with you on channel coordination or whatever, I could see this as a way to "goof with" your competitor, by having his clients associate with you instead, and flood their technical support lines with calls. Having the virtual AP only run from 3:30pm to 4:30pm every other Monday could really make things fun for them to figure out.

Thats a mean thing to do, and I would never recommend that anyone do unto others as they wouldn't have done to them.

If a competitor goes broke and pulls the plug on his AP, this could REALLY be benificial, as you could advertise on the hotspot signin screen that there will be no setup fee for former brandX clients.

If you turn on universal client, you might pick up a customer who sees your tower better than your competitor. About as underhanded and unethical as callforwarding his sales line to yours, but ....

Pete Davis
NoDial.net



John Scrivner wrote:

Short of frustrating potential customers I cannot fathom what positive effect this process has. Please enlighten me how this is a good thing to do.
Scriv


Kurt Fankhauser wrote:

I do that too, 3 competitors have towers all within ¼ mile of each other, I put their ssid in my AP but turn the broadcast off, their clients associate to me and I deny all their access so when they try to hook up customers it looks like their connected but they cant figure out why it doesn’t work, keeps them from signing up clients in my area.

Kurt Fankhauser

WAVELINC

114 S. Walnut St.

Bucyrus, OH 44820

419-562-6405

www.wavelinc.com

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actually, I was kidding about the competitor thing, wanted to see if it'd start a fire. It's something I'd thought of, but you can't route based on Virtual AP SSID

Having an invididual hotspot page per virtual SSID would be cool, on a wholesale level...

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What happens when a potential customer sees the competition's name? They call the competitor who says, "We don't do that." Then what, do you get called by the competitor? I guess my question is, how does advertising the competitor's name help you?

I like the wholesale idea though. I may have to pursue that in the future.

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From: Rick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'WISPA General List'" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:15:08 -0500
Subject: RE: [WISPA] Virtual AP

Yep, I create virtual SSIDs for all my competitors names (they only

do DSL) :)


I also wholesale service off one of my towers via 2.4 and 900 mhz to

a local computer guy that likes to see his name "in the air" -

the virtual SSID thing was a natural win...

Not sure about the broadcast thing...haven't seen a performance hit

because of the virtual ssid's ...

R

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Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 9:57 AM
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Subject: [WISPA] Virtual AP

Mikrotik APs have the capability to create a "Virtual AP" with a

secondary SSID, but I haven't found much documentation about it.


Has anyone used this feature much? I could see this being useful

during a transitional period, while you are changing the SSID, so

you can access the CPE with the "old" ssid.
I could also see this being useful for colocating two companies on

the same tower/AP, like if you have an ISP geared toward

residential service, and another company name/marketing scheme for

business customers.

I don't know what kind of performance impact there is when you create

a bunch of APs on one radio.


I had a wierd thought about this, however: If I have 40 clients on an

AP, and set up 40 "virtual AP's" on the network with each

client on his own SSID, do they count as 40 PTP links, allowing me to

kick up the antenna gain like with the CPE?


Does the virtual AP really broadcast a secondary SSID, or does it

switch between the two rapidly, kind of like a poor man's Time

Division Multiplexing.

Pete Davis
NoDial.net
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