Hello Shaddi, We hope you find the technical guidance you seek on here and further invite you and other non-members to visit our technical forums available from wispa.org for vendor specific information. You mentioned you are on a tight budget so I wanted to quickly point out how far the $250 annual membership fee goes. Hundreds of WISP's have invested in WISPA and the payback has been nearly $90,000 in funds being spent just this year on Legislative and FCC efforts to free up more frequencies and to make rules friendly for the many independent WISP's in our industry. In addition an upcoming Regional Meeting July 21-22 in St. Louis with a very low entrance fee will help us to network and learn much more intensively over a two day session. As are a non-member we have included annual membership in the entrance fee for people who would like to join WISPA.
Talk about more bang for your buck, we invite you to join our organization and perhaps your "lurker" could turn into a "participant" in our collective of making this industry better for all. If you have further questions about our organization please feel free to email me. Thanks, Forbes Mercy Promotion Committee Chair [email protected] On 5/28/2010 7:48 AM, Shaddi Hasan wrote: > Hello WISPA, > > I'm a lurker on this list that is interested in the WISP industry but still > learning every day (a lot from you all!), so please forgive my ignorance. :) > > I run a small community wireless network in a low-income apartment complex; > we're currently using Open-Mesh > OM1P<http://www.streakwave.com/Itemdesc.asp?ic=OM1P&eq=&Tp=%20>'s > with 7dBi omnis to provide coverage to a couple hundred families in about 25 > buildings. For reasons that aren't relevant to this discussion and can't be > changed, we may only place our mesh AP's inside resident's apartments (this > is an all-volunteer operation, run on a shoestring with a small grant). We > can place AP's outside on people's windows, but we have to be discreet. > > There's one section of the complex that we haven't been able to get coverage > to. It's in a bit of a depression, so the tops of the buildings in the > hollow are about even with the first floor of the ones higher up. We have a > gateway for our mesh there, a CLEAR WiMax connection, that never stays up > (we have another one on top of the hill that does stay up, but would that > there were another WISP in our area...), so we are thinking about building a > P2P link between that section of the complex and our gateways elsewhere, a > few hundred feet away but blocked by part of this hill and several > buildings. > > Because we're on such a tight budget, I wanted to solicit yall's advice > before we made a purchase. We were thinking about using a a couple 5Ghz > Ubiquiti NS's, but I'm not sure how well that will work given the lack of > LOS. We were also thinking about looking for some inexpensive 900Mhz > devices, but I'm not sure if that's overkill for what we're trying to do. > We're not trying to get free consulting from you all, but if anyone has any > pointers that might help us make a better decision or fix this problem > they'd be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks! > Shaddi > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/
