[MLB-WIRELESS]Wireless experiments-Melb WISP

[Drew]

They could do it via software in the pc with the nic's in them, and yes, 
bandwidth is reduced. This is why its a good idea to have multiple 
radios connected to directional's than have one omni for everything. But 
omni's do make network growth a whole lot quicker, if people can live 
with the speeds.

Drew

Matt Pearce wrote:

>Correct me if I am wrong, but in order to do repeating you will need more
>expensive equipment (say a DLink AP capable of repeating, and that costs
>more money, who pays for this ??), but then that halves the bandwith
>everytime you do, the more you repeat the less speed comes down the line to
>you etc etc, combine this with a lot of other people running 802.11b/g gear
>and in the future unless something dramatic changes your internet connection
>will be as good as useless, and you will basically loose your $330 install
>fee.  While I do realise there prices are ok, they according to whirlpool
>they have 100 active subscribers at the moment with interest from 4000 more
>people, you do the maths and its not going to be very pretty I can assure
>you.
>
>While I could be wrong, only time will tell.  If things do change it wont be
>in a hurry and as most of you are aware that we are still waiting on 802.11g
>to get here, let alone another standard that makes up for lack of channels
>and other things.
>
>My 2 cents anyways.
>
>Matt.
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Drew" <drew at wireless.org.au>
>To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
>Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 4:49 AM
>Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS]Wireless experiments-Melb WISP
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>>>> > It might also be of interest to people that Alphalink are now
>>>>offering
>>>> > Wireless ISP services in some of the inner city suburbs.
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>>>>I'd be interested to see why they decided to go
>>>>for omnis.
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>>>Perhaps we could write and ask them.
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>>I'd suspect it's to expand their cell size, so they're able to offer
>>service to those non line of sight to the tower by repeating off of
>>other customers.
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