SeattleWireless Node Fundraiser

[Casey Halverson]

I have heard that speakeasy suspended operation of pre-wimax gear on the
5GHz band (mainly due to lack of standards, it sucking, etc), but yes,
it's a big jungle.  We both this of course, operating in seattle over
years...

Even in the worst of worst conditions, with no open channels, wifi still
will work "pretty well" to marginal.  A lot of times, this is really all
that's needed.  If there is a demand and growth requiring higher
bandwidths and less interference, there is a million other options
available (licensed for example, expensive gear), and we'll at least
have the "business requirements" for building such.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev-bounces at seattlewireless.net 
> [mailto:dev-bounces at seattlewireless.net] On Behalf Of Ralph Sims
> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 5:49 PM
> To: 'SeattleWireless Development List'
> Subject: RE: SeattleWireless Node Fundraiser
> 
> Yep.  There's both 2.4 and 5.8 on top of the Columbia Tower 
> filling their respective spectra.  And then Speakeasy with 
> WiMAX on the Space Needle and Cortland with 2.4 and 5.8 on 
> Queen Anne and all of the 2.4 and 5.8 phone systems in the 
> offices and some stuff on the Westin Building and ...  (it's 
> a jungle out there).  We did a survey from Columbia Tower in 
> 2.4 and 5.8 and there's not an open freq in sight.  900MHz 
> might play, but there's a growing issue with the railroads 
> and the public utilities (the latter needs the band for its 
> automated meter-reading and the former for ???).