[183641] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WiFI on utility poles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Livingood, Jason)
Thu Sep 10 09:00:44 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com>
To: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 12:56:37 +0000
In-Reply-To: <81607315.3865.1441852340120.JavaMail.mhammett@ThunderFuck>
Cc: "Petrulich, Corey" <Corey_Petrulich@cable.comcast.com>, "Falkenstein,
Kenneth" <Ken_Falkenstein@Cable.Comcast.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
If you run across any you think are terribly placed, feel free to email
Corey and Ken with the location and your thoughts on better placement.
- Jason
On 9/9/15, 10:31 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Mike Hammett"
<nanog-bounces@nanog.org on behalf of nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
>Usually terribly placed, like a shotgun blast instead of strategic
>locations.=20
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>Mike Hammett=20
>Intelligent Computing Solutions
>http://www.ics-il.com
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>Midwest Internet Exchange
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>----- Original Message -----
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>From: "Mike Lyon" <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
>To: "Phil Bedard" <bedard.phil@gmail.com>
>Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 9:23:46 PM
>Subject: Re: WiFI on utility poles
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>And they are as annoying as f*&k! and litter the already noisy 5 Ghz
>unlicensed band, Hopefully, the sun will fry them dead over time.
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>-Mike=20
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>On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Phil Bedard <bedard.phil@gmail.com>
>wrote:=20
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>> There are Comcast people on the list who may have more info, but it=B9s
>>just=20
>> expansion of their WiFi hotspot network and part of the CableWifi
>> consortium. http://www.cablewifi.com, or you can go to
>> http://wifi.xfinity.com to see Comcast=B9s specific deployment.
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>> Cable companies have thousands of strand-mount Wifi APs deployed at
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>> Phil=20
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: NANOG on behalf of "Michael T. Voity"
>> Organization: University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
>> Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 21:52
>> To: <nanog@nanog.org>
>> Subject: Re: WiFI on utility poles
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>> >Sorry folks, attachment didn't work. Here is the link -
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>> >https://www.uvm.edu/~mvoity/pole.JPG
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>> >-Mike=20
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>> >Michael Voity=20
>> >University of Vermont
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>> >On 9/9/15 9:24 PM, Michael T. Voity wrote:
>> >> Hello,=20
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>> >> Today another colleague and I discovered the famous 'xfinitywifi'
>> ,'CableWIFi', 'CoxWiFi' and a new one 'XFINITY' on our University
>>campus.=20
>> After doing some poking around on campus we found these gems (attached
>> picture) on 2 utility poles that pass by our east campus. Standing
>> underneath it I got a -46 RSSI in both 5 and 2.4Ghz, maybe 75-100 yards
>> away inside our hockey fieldhouse, through lots of brick, cinder blocks
>> and metal, I was still picking the 2.4Ghz at -64.
>> >>=20
>> >> Looks like the unit is getting power from the coax.
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>> >> My question is, I've done a little poking around and have not found
>> anything substantial to learn more information about this Comcast
>>program.=20
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>> >> Any insight would be nice!
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>> >> Michael Voity
>> >> University of Vermont
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>Mike Lyon=20
>408-621-4826=20
>mike.lyon@gmail.com
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>http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlyon
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