WiFI on utility poles

Thu Sep 10 12:56:37 UTC 2015

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 at nanog.org on behalf of nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:

>Usually terribly placed, like a shotgun blast instead of strategic
>locations. 
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>Mike Hammett 
>Intelligent Computing Solutions
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>Midwest Internet Exchange
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>----- Original Message -----
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>From: "Mike Lyon" <mike.lyon at gmail.com>
>To: "Phil Bedard" <bedard.phil at gmail.com>
>Cc: "NANOG" <nanog at 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 
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>On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Phil Bedard <bedard.phil at gmail.com>
>wrote: 
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>> There are Comcast people on the list who may have more info, but it¹s
>>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 Comcast¹s specific deployment.
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>> Cable companies have thousands of strand-mount Wifi APs deployed at
>>this 
>> point. 
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>> Phil 
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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 at 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 
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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, 
>> >> 
>> >> 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. 
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>> >> Any insight would be nice!
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>> >> 
>> >> Michael Voity
>> >> University of Vermont
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