At 11:49 AM 9/10/2007, you wrote:
You 900 idea souns interesting, but youll need a 900 muni client and/or 900 pcmcia card for customers
Thanks much for the reply Gino. My idea is like "muni wireless" in that there really is no CPE per se. With muni wifi, each node is on top of a light pole or building. With my idea, I would place a pole in the yard (or rooftop) of select customers to form the NLOS mesh. Each box would have at least two 900MHz cards plus one wifi card for the customer to access using a laptop (or desktop with cheap wifi adapter). Like with muni wifi, I would own all the rooftop and poletop outdoor gear.
But in a sense you are correct. In fact it would be more like two 900 cards per customer if you are not at the edge of the mesh. I'm able to get 0.1 miles of NLOS using wifi so in theory, next door neighbors may not need any 900 (not be a node in the mesh)
One goal is to reduce the need for towers. A climber fell to his death here only a few months ago, and I can't afford expensive tower space and climbers anyway. I'd rather put that capital in to more gear to grow the mesh "organically".
I take it that nobody has ever built a 900MHz NLOS mesh network before. Which is not a good sign to me. That's a sign that my idea probably won't work.....
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