[183642] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WiFI on utility poles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Thu Sep 10 09:05:06 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 08:00:08 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
To: Jason Livingood <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com>
In-Reply-To: <D216F5B9.113C16%jason_livingood@cable.comcast.com>
Cc: Corey Petrulich <Corey_Petrulich@cable.comcast.com>,
Kenneth Falkenstein <Ken_Falkenstein@Cable.Comcast.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
5 GHz noise levels affecting people whose primary means of Internet access is via fixed wireless .
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
http://www.ics-il.com
Midwest Internet Exchange
http://www.midwest-ix.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Livingood" <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com>
To: "Hunter Fuller" <hf0002+nanog@uah.edu>
Cc: "Corey Petrulich" <Corey_Petrulich@cable.comcast.com>, "Kenneth Falkenstein" <Ken_Falkenstein@Cable.Comcast.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2015 7:54:56 AM
Subject: Re: WiFI on utility poles
Sabotaging how?
- Jason
On 9/9/15, 10:20 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Hunter Fuller"
<nanog-bounces@nanog.org on behalf of hf0002+nanog@uah.edu> wrote:
>Wow, it is like they are actively sabotaging us. Sigh...
>
>None of that in this area yet - I'm sure it's only a matter of time
>though.
>
>On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Michael T. Voity <mvoity@uvm.edu> wrote:
>> Sorry folks, attachment didn't work. Here is the link -
>>
>> https://www.uvm.edu/~mvoity/pole.JPG
>>
>> -Mike
>>
>> Michael Voity
>> University of Vermont
>>
>> On 9/9/15 9:24 PM, Michael T. Voity wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Today another colleague and I discovered the famous 'xfinitywifi'
>>> ,'CableWIFi', 'CoxWiFi' and a new one 'XFINITY' on our University
>>>campus.
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Looks like the unit is getting power from the coax.
>>>
>>>
>>> My question is, I've done a little poking around and have not found
>>> anything substantial to learn more information about this Comcast
>>>program.
>>>
>>>
>>> Any insight would be nice!
>>>
>>>
>>> Michael Voity
>>> University of Vermont
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
