Nanos would be cheaper then MT wouldn't it? On 4/17/10, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > Marlon's idea is good. Put a high 5.8 omni at the crossroads. Put some 5.8 > cpe at a few different places with 2.4 low power radios connected to them. > A P2P to the crossroads system from your demark would complete the system. > > You could do it with Deliberant radios, or Mikrotik quite easily. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer > Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 7:08 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Internet for festival: Laptop/PDA signal strength? > > I use a 24dB grid for a project like this. We can get to a laptop (in > open air) about a mile away this way ;-). It's pretty cool. > > You'd never be able to handle the volume that way though. > > I'd probably try to go with REALLY low powered omni or sectors with a LOT of > > them. 5 gig 802.11 a and b/g. I'd also run a 5 gig system over the top of > it for backhaul. > > Unless you are doing this for free. Then put in what you've got that's > cheap and go from there. > marlon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles Hooper" <[email protected]> > To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 11:27 AM > Subject: [WISPA] Internet for festival: Laptop/PDA signal strength? > > >> Hi, >> >> Every year in July we have a fairly large, 3-day festival in town with >> over 100 vendors and over 300,000 visitors. I'm teaming up with a local >> non-profit that I'm involved with to try to provide Internet access to >> those vendors, as well as any of those 300,000 people with >> smartphones/PDAs who feel the need to get online. Essentially, the area >> I want to cover is in green on this map (plus the pier): >> >> http://sailfest.org/images/page/sailfest2009_event_guide.gif >> >> For a sense of scale, those green sections are only about 400 feet long >> and are (mostly) flat and the buildings around them are made of brick. >> There will be tents and stands all along the street. This is one of the >> areas: >> >> http://sailfest.org/images/page/vendorarea_03.jpg >> >> If I put a Ubiquiti bullet in that intersection of the green area with >> an omnidirectional antenna, I have very little doubt that its signal >> will get wherever it needs to go, but will people's laptops and PDAs >> have a problem with connections at that range? Or should I put a >> repeater halfway down those streets, or even for this use case use a >> Mesh network design? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Charles >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- >> 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/ > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ >
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