WiFI on utility poles

Thu Sep 10 02:23:46 UTC 2015

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.

-Mike

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Phil Bedard <bedard.phil at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 -
> >
> >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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>

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