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Re: Naysayers on citywide WiFi should be listened to

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said by TKJunkMail See Profile :

bring up Google Earth, map out some basics of how things should be setup and then wonder where the other 95% of the quote is going? Why does it take so much for the equipment when it's so dang dirt cheap? Where is all the money going? Are they paying every one who works on the project a $1 million year salary?
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That's the problem, any jackass thinks they can plan this (via Goog earth or other ) and if the world was flat, that MIGHT work.
In reality, waveform mapping (and TESTING) may not conform to the physical landforms, or the streeview. There is Theory and there are studies (surveys) to confirm said theory .
(the FCC use to see this as a Primary mission)
A realistic bidder would bid double their estimate (plus) but those bids are ALWAYS to high.
Those with "Hype", get the low bid, ask for more, and the project fails.

dagg

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having worked on the failed Tempe AZ mesh, I can say the following:
"THIS!"

Tempe was perhaps one of the most favorable places I have seen to do this kind of stuff and yet it still failed for this very reason.
the AP density required double what they had in the initial bid and still left dark areas.
having been on the provider side in two failed markets (tempe and sacramento which was killed before it was started) i can say that municipalities have no business being in the business of providing bleeding edge technologies (which this application of wireless i still consider to be bleeding edge)
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