How many of those 300,000 will be connected simultaneously? Isn't the limit of what a Bullet can adequately handle somewhere around 30 clients? So with three Bullets what you'll be able to support is around 90 simultaneous clients.
I think you'd be better off to use clusters of NS2Locos arranged radially as sectors (plus ethernet switches, power supplies etc), and you're going to need something (MT?) for bandwidth management and also a pretty big pipe to feed it all. It might even be worthwhile to only allow traffic on web and email ports. Who knows what people are going to connect to your network. Someone with a Bittorrent client running? Someone with a Mac doing their iDisk backup? A PC doing a Carbonite or Mozy backup? If you don't pull this off well you'll just frustrate a lot of people and yourself. Greg On Apr 18, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Charles Hooper wrote: > Oh yeah, I'm doing this for free. I don't really have any hardware other > than a Bullet with an omni that a friend gave me. I planned on buying > some equipment and I don't mind, provided I can use it for other > projects after this one, but I'd like to keep the budget under $300 (if > that's laughable, do let me know!) > > My thoughts were to use NS5Ls for the backhaul and up to three > well-placed 2.4 Bullets w/ omnis, but the fewer the better. > > > Josh Luthman wrote: >> 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! 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