Re: WiFI on utility poles

[Philip Dorr <tagno25 () gmail com>]

On Sep 9, 2015 11:15 PM, "John Levine" <johnl () iecc com> wrote:
> The placement may be suboptimal, but free wifi away from home is nice.
> CableWifi really is a consortium, T-W customers can use Comcast's
> hotspots and vice versa.

Suboptimal is an understatement.  How they are placed around Kansas City,
they are self interfering, unable to hear the clients, and in places that
make no sense (outside of a rural house where the next house is a 1/2 mile
away).  I can usually see 5+ of them all on the same 5.8Ghz channel.