[Hidden-tech] WiredWest fiberoptic broadband

ussailis at shaysnet.com ussailis at shaysnet.com
Sun Apr 18 11:11:52 EDT 2010


At one time I looked at WiMAX. WiMAX is a licensed system just as cell
phones are licensed. (YES, they are licensed via the FCC sale of
frequencies for bega-bucks, NOT mega-bucks).

Then I looked at my son's house in Ashfield, a typical hill town install.
WiMAX allows more power than WiFi, antenna gain, etc., so I would expect
much more range. Again the issue is the hills. Form Jim Jr's place I could
easily transmit to his place, probably a few more folks (plus many cows and
a few bears) in the nearby valley, if I could secure the hill next to his
house, and put a tower on it.  HA!

Simply the generated revenue from a few folks and many cows wouldn't cover
the cost of building permits. Did I say I also would have to get a tower
and radios? Oh yes, I didn't mention the FCC sale of the frequencies. That
shouldn't be too high, tho, W. MA is not a popular spot for high rollers.

600 ft range: 

Wireless range is very dependent on the propagation path. The Friis
equation describes range in free-space. On earth we never get close to
that. From experience I would guess that downtown Springfield has terrible
propagation because of the buildings, etc. 

As a example, communication with the Space Station is easily done with a 5
watt transmitter and simple antenna at 145 MHz. That is free space
propagation. Yet it is difficult to communicate across Northampton with the
same transmitter and antenna.

That's the reason every police and fire dept has a repeater on the mountain
(here it is Mt Tom).

So spacing wireless transmitters every so many feet on phone poles doesn't
do it. Every path has to be looked at. Some will work fine, some will fail,
others will be marginal. San Jose found this out. They gave up on their
free wireless system.


Jim Ussailis
jim at nationalwireless.com 

Original Message:
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From: Christopher Eliot cre at chriseliot.com
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:25:07 -0400
To: matthew at corp.crocker.com, hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net,
townwebsites at gmail.com
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] WiredWest fiberoptic broadband


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How about:
>
> -- State builds a regional fiber network to every town (MBI is  
> working on this)
> -- Towns build a municipal fiber network to every street (town funds  
> via bonding like building a road or bridge)

With a wireless access point every quarter or half mile along the  
street? Would that be enough? Can wireless reach 1/8 or 1/4 miles?
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