WiFI on utility poles

Philip Dorr tagno25 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 10 05:09:39 UTC 2015


On Sep 9, 2015 11:15 PM, "John Levine" <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
>
> The placement may be suboptimal, but free wifi away from home is nice.
> CableWifi really is a consortium, T-W customers can use Comcast's
> hotspots and vice versa.
>

Suboptimal is an understatement.  How they are placed around Kansas City,
they are self interfering, unable to hear the clients, and in places that
make no sense (outside of a rural house where the next house is a 1/2 mile
away).  I can usually see 5+ of them all on the same 5.8Ghz channel.



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