Wireless Internet options

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

Drew,

Consider the following:

1. Your building may only have five units, but an adjoining building may
have significantly more. For example, a large condo group might take the
lead, and you can come along for the ride.

2. The biggest cost can be the install. Actually knowing how to set up the
system will save a lot of money, both on services and hardware. For example,
someone on this list was recently trying to unload a machine for $200. I bet
that would do the trick for a router with a second NIC installed.

3. The install is a true one-time cost. That means, when you move out your
landlord has a wired building. All the new tenant has to do is configure and
plug in, and pay the monthly fee. Consider what a selling point that is for
the landlord-especially in a neighborhood where broadband access is so hard
to obtain. You might find this an easy sell.
Regards,

-Warren Agin

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Drew Taylor" <drew at drewtaylor.com>
To: "Warren E. Agin" <wea at swiggartagin.com>; "BLU Discuss" <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: Wireless Internet options


> That is an interesting idea! Unfortunately the area I'm in is all
> residential so I think my chances of finding an existing dedicated
> connection is slim. If the price is right, I think it would be an easy
sell
> to my neighbors, and possibly any people in the buildings on either side.
> The only downside is that my building only has 5 apartments, so I either
> have to get something cheap enough to accomodate this limitation, or sell
> to the next door buildings. I'm definitely technical enough to pull it
off,
> and even configure computers as necessary. So that is not really an issue
> for me.
>
> One thing I'm considering is once I get the connection (whatever it is)
> into the building is to use a wireless AP with an antenna on my patio to
> make the connection available to neighbors. Doing this would eliminate
ugly
> Cat 5 running up the outside of the building (no go for my wife I'm sure!)
> and drilling holes (landlord probably would not like it). Of course, going
> wireless means I'm concerned with people getting access w/o paying for it.
> I've looked into the NoCat gateway, which looks like it solves the access
> problem, but I'm open to other options. I don't even mind a little
leaching
> as long as they aren't saturating the connection DL pr0n, etc. Anyone with
> more experience in this area?
>
> Drew
>
> At 07:49 AM 8/21/02 -0400, Warren E. Agin wrote:
> >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.
>
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