> On Aug 22, 2016, at 11:20 PM, Tom <tompoe at meltel.net> wrote: > > Hi, Ryan: Well, it's not too soon to start designing a statewide community emergency broadband mesh network. Rochester is considering the feasibility of such a network as we sit here. :) > Interesting… as I look out my window on Methodist Hospital, Gonda and Charter House all I see is grey skies, no meshes at all :) I do a lot of work at Olmsted and Mother Mayo (relo’d in April for a year). > Tom > > P.S. I could be wrong about that. I'm guessing these networks can be sustainable based on a business model that pairs up advertisers with content. > You don’t need advertisers to get a MESH system going. But you do need about $500-$1000 per site for quality gear that will survive Minnesota weather. USI’s Wireless is technically a MESH system. It’s not the hardware Iw ould have used when they started but it is viable now after they upgraded the technology. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20160823/f3af6739/attachment.html>