Yes, how childish. Don't ever talk bad about Canopy to a Canopy Operator. It'll get them all flustered and they start flaming. I find it pretty hilarious, really. I've come to surmise that the reason EVERY Canopy Operator gets so pissed off when you talk about anything non-Canopy is because they realize $2000+ for an AP and $300-$1000 for an SM is so rediculous for a maximum of... what... 14Mbps? Ooo, it has a GPS antenna, and ooo it will sync with other clusters in the area... never worked well for us, because the other Canopy provider didn't buy a CMM and so was never sync'ed.
Bleh. Fine for them. Less profit for them. Makes them more likely to fail. When they do, and their subs switch to us, at least the cable is already ran and the mount already in place. :-) Oh by the way, Smokeping indicates that most subs on our busiest AP have an average latency of around 4-8ms. And all those subs are limited to 6 up, 12 down. On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Butch Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 19:47 -0600, Travis Johnson wrote: > > As soon as you can offer 7ms latency to 100 people off the same AP > > using WiFi based radios, please let me know. I will buy 200 AP's and > > 5,000 CPE. ;) > > That kind of density is NOT necessary for MANY WISPs. I know that is > the cry that nearly ALL Canopy Koolaid drinkers use, but it does not > apply to everyone. For those that need it...Canopy offers a very nice > solution that works, works well and is affordable because it is NEEDED. > For those that don't...Canopy is WAY to expensive to be worth the extra > $$. > > Don't take this as a "jab" because it isn't intended that way, but why > would you post a message that indicates that someone was inviting you to > switch your Canopy out for WiFi? Nobody made such a suggestion and > (IMHO) reacting in the way you did is just plain rude. > > -- > ******************************************************************** > * Butch Evans * Professional Network Consultation* > * http://www.butchevans.com/ * Network Engineering * > * http://www.wispa.org/ * Wired or Wireless Networks * > * http://blog.butchevans.com/ * ImageStream, Mikrotik and MORE! * > ******************************************************************** > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > 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: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
