[173266] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Wilkins)
Mon Jul 21 17:01:30 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Ryan Wilkins <ryan@deadfrog.net>
In-Reply-To: <53CD778E.1020406@wholesaleinternet.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:47:25 -0400
To: Aaron <aaron@wholesaleinternet.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Jul 21, 2014, at 4:26 PM, Aaron <aaron@wholesaleinternet.net> wrote:
> Do you have an example of a municipality that gives free internet =
access to it's residents?
Cleveland, OH Ward 13.
http://oldbrooklynconnected.com
Nearly every street in the ward has multiple wireless access points =
serving Internet access to the residents at 2.4 GHz. 5 GHz is used for =
backhaul. Ubiquity networks wireless gear is used with a smattering of =
Mikrotik routers throughout.
It=92s not terribly reliable but then maybe that=92s on purpose to =
discourage lawsuits. If there is a problem with the system on a Friday =
at 5:30 PM, it=92ll be down until the following Tuesday. The bandwidth =
also isn=92t anything to write home about, but for free (meaning I don=92t=
directly send these folks a check every month) it=92s not too bad. I =
can get 6 Mbps down and 2-4 Mbps up, sometimes more up and down but =
that=92s fairly rare.. I=92ve used it for Netflix and it worked =
reasonably well. HD content would stream but often would jump back to =
SD. Rarely would it stop entirely.
I ended up having to setup an account with Time Warner for their =
Internet service because I work from home and the wireless interruptions =
were enough that it was causing problems. AT&T also serves the area but =
only with 1.5 Mbps DSL. No other wired carriers serve the area aside =
from dialup.
Ryan Wilkins
