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MANY WISPS will use three bands, or at least two, from the same site.

They put the 5 GHz users on who can really see the site.  They put the  
2.4 GHz users on who are a bit more obstructed.  Both of those  
frequency ranges have both licensed and unlicensed frequencies.   
Better WISPs use licensed frequencies.

At the bottom end, and especially for obstructed paths, the WISPs will  
use the 902 to 928 MHz ISM/Ham band.  It goes through leaves better,  
but is subject to Amateur interference, plus the interference from  
wireless phones and baby monitors, which is MUCH worse than the same  
devices at 2.4 GHz.

Having dealt with a large number of WISPs, both from the service end,  
and from the "we wanna rent tower space from you" end of the business,  
I find most of them to be technically ignorant.  I asked one in  
Mississippi for their IP block.  They told me 100.x.x.x.  Well,  
STUPIDLY, they are using them on the "inside" side of their network.   
Well, super.  Imagine what is going to happen when ARIN releases that  
IP range to some company or country?  They couldn't ever tell me what  
IP range they owned, and got embarrassed and went away.  I haven't  
checked to see if 100.x.x.x has been assigned yet, it may have.

I didn't want them to go away, but I want only clients with enough  
technical knowledge to stay in business.  I don't want a bunch of  
abandoned equipment on my towers!

The problem is, anyone with a fair checkbook can buy some WiMax  
equipment, and the RF end can work OK, but the IT side is an entirely  
different subject.  If they cannot make that work, the customers won't  
be happy.

--chip

On Apr 30, 2010, at 9:00 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 8
> From: "Leon D. Zetekoff" <wa4zlw at arrl.net>
>
> On 4/29/2010 8:42 AM, SteveOrdinetz wrote:
>> Yeah, I'm well aware of the lack of broadband availability in  
>> northern New England.  A big part of the problem up here is  
>> terrain.  There are 3 WISP towers within a couple miles of my house  
>> and I can't get a signal from any of them.  You would need a huge  
>> number of APs to get decent coverage, but that badly eats into the  
>> bottom line (considering the lack of population density).
>>
>> Vermont has a much higher number of NIMBYs and just general  
>> governmental red tape than we do in N.H., so I can only imagine the  
>> hoops any provider needs to jump thru.
>>
>> I'm told that DSL is coming to my area later this year.  Even if  
>> it's only 512k it'll be a huge improvement over what I have now.   
>> Hopefully it happens.
>>
> do you know what freqs those WiSPs are using? Are you LOS or NLOS to  
> any
> of those towers? 900 mHz might be something they need to try. Also,  
> one
> thing we did was use customers locations as a repeater site.
>
> Leon