Wireless Internet options

[wea at swiggartagin.com (Warren E. Agin)]

I also live in the NE, and had a similar problem. The building next to ours
had been wired with a T-1 (they had a dot-com as a tenant at one point and
its staff had done the work), so we brought a line into our basement and
wired our building too. A basic hub and lots of Cat 5 cable were all the
equipment required. Cost: about $250 each apartment to wire the building,
$250 per apartment as a buy-in to the other building (to reimburse them for
their initial equipment investment) and, with about 24 units using the
service, $40 a month. For this, I get access to an underutilized T-1, a
stable connection, and static IP.

Initially, we thought there would be some problem selling the concept to the
rest of the people in the building - but in the end it was an easy sell. The
condo trustee's decided just to pay the money for the install and set up
everyone with access to the service, whether they want it or not.

The key is having enough units to make the cost reasonable. Also, you need
someone technically adept enough to manage the process and educate everyone.
That's you. Keep in mind that it is a process. We had to deal with a few
luddites and I had to prepare instruction sheets on how to configure a PC to
use the connection. Even so, I had to configure three or four personal
computers myself.

Regards,

-Warren Agin

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Horne" <bill at horne.net>
To: "BLU Discuss" <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: Wireless Internet options


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Drew Taylor" <drew at drewtaylor.com>
>
>
> > I just moved into the North End of Boston and unfortunately neither DSL
> > (digital cards in the CO) or cable modem (not upgraded yet) are
available
> > to me. So I'm looking at wireless options.
>
> Drew,
>
> Hughes now has a two-way satellite data offering, which will be very
> attractive for shared use. Of course, you'll need to be able to put a ~2
> meter dish on the roof, but once installed it's always on. Prices (last
time
> I checked) were in the ~100/mo range.
>
> Bill Horne
>
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