[ogWiFi] Mobile Internet Solution

[br4k3r]

I don't think they have a wired solution is the problem we're facing at this
point.  We don't need a long term solution, it's a one shot deal, with a
very very slight possibility (if it works out I will be offering the
broadcast service on a full time basis) but it's just to see if we can
accomplish it using current knowledge / technologies.

Plan "B" would be to string a couple metres of CAT6 over to another building
close buy *if* we can find one willing to let us piggy back.

On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Michael Richardson <
mcr at sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> wrote:

>
> I've read the whole thread.
>
> My day job, SIMtone, tried out the Rogers WiMax on a 15 day trial
> (or maybe it was 30 days).  We needed it really only for demos where we
> really do need 2Mb/s to show our application, and and relying on
> comodity "cafe/hotel" connections was too difficult.
>
> We would not have used it more than 3-4 hours/month, and at that the
> regular price was almost unacceptable, but the promotional price at the
> time seemed okay.  But it had to work.
>
> In our *office* at Bronson/Carling, we found that we could only make it
> work by adjusting the orientation of the modem very precisely.  It
> worked great at Tracey's house when were we setting up.  It also worked
> great on Sparks' Street after the event.  It completely failed once we
> got north of the flame!  No signal.  It was also very hard to debug,
> since the sun blinded us to any screens we had to diagnose things.
>
> It matters not if you go with Bell or Rogers.  The duopolopy has
> actually "teamed" up to deploy WiMax, because neither could afford to do
> it on their own.  Talk about lack of neutrality, eh...
>
> >From reading your thread, I don't really understand your needs.
> If you are at Cafe Umi on a regular basis, why can't you use their
> current wired solution?   You will be limited by the uplink, which could
> be as small as 128kb/s (two voice calls), depending on what kind of ADSL
> they have.  You need to be sending a single stream out to some data
> centre (colo), from where you can unicast or multicast (I can still
> dream) it to the listeners.  Focus on the audio.  Video of an event,
> even at 2-3 frame/s is acceptable to many, but choppy audio is useless.
>
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