Then I'd go with the Broadband over power line. Could also be a revenue stream if you can lease the converter and a router the end user. Easy to install. Plugs right into any electrical outlet in the apartment. No need to worry about sharing Time Warner's cable, the electrical is part of the building!
Bob- -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Yette Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 4:29 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings The Mikrotik might be the solution. No DirectTV - we are in Time Warner territory so we competing in space where the apartments are wired with Coax that TW owns. On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Robert West<robert.w...@just-micro.com> wrote: > I agree to that. For what you are doing, the Mikrotik would be a no brainer > to decide on. But that that, he's looking to install indoors with many > apartments. All the cordless phones, microwave ovens, baby monitors, > wireless routers, PlayStations, Wii consoles and the like all about as close > as one could stand. Oh, and dunno the location but I've seen way too many > of these apartment complexes where each and every balcony has a DirecTV dish > hung off it. A huge wall of DirecTV bouncing all over. With all this RF > concentrated in such a small place, what band should they be looking at as > well as antenna choice. I think THAT would be hard part to see what would > work reliably before sinking cash into the accessories for that MT board. > > Bob- > > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On > Behalf Of David E. Smith > Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 3:08 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Apartment Buildings > > Jeff Yette wrote: >> To clarify, we are not looking for a hosted application, but more of a >> home-grown solution. We have all of the components for billing, which >> will automatically create a radius account and e-mail, we have online >> billing and web-mail - the only part is the is missing is the web >> authentication piece. > > If you're willing to roll your own, Mikrotik RouterOS has built-in > hotspot functionality that can easily be configured to talk to your > RADIUS server of choice. The ugly-but-functional version can probably be > going in an hour; you'll want to make your own pretty login page and do > some other cosmetic tweaks, but those aren't too difficult either. > > David Smith > MVN.net > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
