justin should be chiming in soon with any luck. i heard usi. give us some of your knowledge justin... On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman at cwis.biz> wrote: > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20160823/d15d8a01/attachment.html>