[176812] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Dec 11 17:43:15 2014
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:42:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
> Does an 802.11 transmitter that was already being used to support
> their own WiFi network that they are paying for really consume vastly
> more electricity to support a second SSID? In my experience, that
> claim is hard to fathom.
If popular, the radio might have a higher transmit duty cycle, but as I
suggest in another post, maybe watthours per month.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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