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 | patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
| Re: Dumping WiFi lost $61M in revenue & saved $145M in costs With muni wifi your fighting against shitty Centrino laptops with zero gain antennas and no tx power, and your fighting with really slow speeds compared to Cable and DSL (who gets more than 1.5 mbit/s on wifi WISPs? even if backhaul is more than a T1, you'll be rate limited to a T1). Also remember your dealing with incredible inertia with existing Cable and DSL, and alot of cable and DSL providers now offer 99 cent broadband 768k or 1m down and $15-$25 a month, and they always work, rather than wifi which can be degraded by 2.4 interference or congestion over precious 802.11b links. | |
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Renard2008
@comcast.net
| All due respect ... forget about Earthlink for a second and think about the city; of all cities out there I think NOLA was one of the most unfortunate choices - they have much bigger things to worry about, and precious little money to spend on non-essential stuff like wi-fi.
Just my opinon, though. | |
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factchecker
@cox.net | Re: Dumping WiFi lost $61M in revenue & saved $145M in costs Just to give you heads up... The muni-wifi project in New Orleans predated Katrina and the Earthlink project.
It was originally deployed in order to monitor cameras placed in high crime sections of the city. | |
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join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | Re: Dumping WiFi lost $61M in revenue & saved $145M in costs How does wifi have enough bandwidth to have 10s of cameras going over it? 11B is 4.5 mbitps and 11G is 20mbitps. | |
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join:2004-07-05
Miami Beach, FL | Re: Dumping WiFi lost $61M in revenue & saved $145M in costs thats why it failed so many different times...great expectations and nothing to deliver. | |
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Dumping WiFi lost $61M in revenue & saved $145M in costs
