WiFI on utility poles

Thu Sep 10 02:19:44 UTC 2015

There are Comcast people on the list who may have more info, but it’s just 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’s specific deployment.  

Cable companies have thousands of strand-mount Wifi APs deployed at this point.   

Phil 

-----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 at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: WiFI on utility poles

>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
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>Michael  Voity
>University of Vermont
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>On 9/9/15 9:24 PM, Michael T. Voity wrote:
>> Hello,
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Any insight would be nice!
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>> Michael Voity
>> University of Vermont
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