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Re: WiFI on utility poles
From: Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 21:31:34 -0500 (CDT)
Usually terribly placed, like a shotgun blast instead of strategic locations. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com Midwest Internet Exchange http://www.midwest-ix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Lyon" <mike.lyon () gmail com> To: "Phil Bedard" <bedard.phil () gmail com> Cc: "NANOG" <nanog () nanog org> Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 9:23:46 PM Subject: Re: WiFI on utility poles And they are as annoying as f*&k! and litter the already noisy 5 Ghz unlicensed band, Hopefully, the sun will fry them dead over time. -Mike On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Phil Bedard <bedard.phil () gmail com> wrote:
There are Comcast people on the list who may have more info, but it’s just expansion of their WiFi hotspot network and part of the CableWifi consortium. http://www.cablewifi.com, or you can go to http://wifi.xfinity.com to see Comcast’s specific deployment. Cable companies have thousands of strand-mount Wifi APs deployed at this point. Phil -----Original Message----- From: NANOG on behalf of "Michael T. Voity" Organization: University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 21:52 To: <nanog () nanog org> Subject: Re: WiFI on utility polesSorry folks, attachment didn't work. Here is the link - https://www.uvm.edu/~mvoity/pole.JPG -Mike Michael Voity University of Vermont On 9/9/15 9:24 PM, Michael T. Voity wrote:Hello, Today another colleague and I discovered the famous 'xfinitywifi','CableWIFi', 'CoxWiFi' and a new one 'XFINITY' on our University campus. After doing some poking around on campus we found these gems (attached picture) on 2 utility poles that pass by our east campus. Standing underneath it I got a -46 RSSI in both 5 and 2.4Ghz, maybe 75-100 yards away inside our hockey fieldhouse, through lots of brick, cinder blocks and metal, I was still picking the 2.4Ghz at -64.Looks like the unit is getting power from the coax. My question is, I've done a little poking around and have not foundanything substantial to learn more information about this Comcast program.Any insight would be nice! Michael Voity University of Vermont
-- Mike Lyon 408-621-4826 mike.lyon () gmail com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlyon
Current thread:
- WiFI on utility poles Michael T. Voity (Sep 09)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Michael T. Voity (Sep 09)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Phil Bedard (Sep 09)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Mike Lyon (Sep 09)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Mike Hammett (Sep 09)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Livingood, Jason (Sep 10)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Michael Englehorn (Sep 10)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Mike Lyon (Sep 10)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Jim Popovitch (Sep 10)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Hunter Fuller (Sep 10)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Jim Popovitch (Sep 10)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Hunter Fuller (Sep 10)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Phil Bedard (Sep 09)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Michael T. Voity (Sep 09)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Jared Mauch (Sep 10)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles Mike Hammett (Sep 10)
- Re: WiFI on utility poles John Levine (Sep 09)