Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

[Aaron <aaron () wholesaleinternet net>]

Thank you.

Search gives me examples of small to medium municipal wireless 
deployments but what I'm particularly interested in is an example(s) of 
a municipal fiber build that was used to deliver free internet access to 
said municipality's residents.  The post I originally responded to would 
lead me to believe that such an entity exists and if so, information on 
it would be super timely to a project I'm working on.

Aaron


On 7/21/2014 3:47 PM, Ryan Wilkins wrote:
> On Jul 21, 2014, at 4:26 PM, Aaron <aaron () wholesaleinternet net> wrote:
>
> > Do you have an example of a municipality that gives free internet access to it's residents?
>
> Cleveland, OH Ward 13.
> http://oldbrooklynconnected.com
>
> Nearly every street in the ward has multiple wireless access points serving Internet access to the residents at 2.4 
> GHz.  5 GHz is used for backhaul.  Ubiquity networks wireless gear is used with a smattering of Mikrotik routers 
> throughout.
> It’s not terribly reliable but then maybe that’s on purpose to discourage lawsuits.  If there is a problem with the 
> system on a Friday at 5:30 PM, it’ll be down until the following Tuesday.  The bandwidth also isn’t anything to write 
> home about, but for free (meaning I don’t directly send these folks a check every month) it’s not too bad.  I can get 6 
> Mbps down and 2-4 Mbps up, sometimes more up and down but that’s fairly rare..  I’ve used it for Netflix and it worked 
> reasonably well.  HD content would stream but often would jump back to SD.  Rarely would it stop entirely.
> I ended up having to setup an account with Time Warner for their Internet service because I work from home and the wireless 
> interruptions were enough that it was causing problems.  AT&T also serves the area but only with 1.5 Mbps DSL.  No 
> other wired carriers serve the area aside from dialup.
>
> Ryan Wilkins

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