ua459, but would any of that apply if he is a wireless ISP? No co-locating, no CLEC. And if it's 802.11 then it's unregulated, so no FCC?
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ua459, but would any of that apply if he is a wireless ISP? No co-locating, no CLEC. And if it's 802.11 then it's unregulated, so no FCC?
He still must have an agreement with another provider to access the internet and obtain blocks of public IP addresses.
When reselling bandwidth, cost is based on traffic volume.
Two separate DNS servers are required on separate IPs.
Selling communications services is licensed and highly regulated right down to the local level. 802.11b/g being unregulated by the FCC simply means that individual transmitters need not be licensed by the FCC.
FCC is only an issue if you go above certain wattage levels, its not that hard the only real issues are tower access and having licensed tower climbers. and if your talking about for a neighborhood well then you could do it off your room im talking about full sized FM radio towers or the slightly smaller cell towers, both of which I worked on.Quote:
Originally Posted by ua549
We dropped our WISP due to it taking away from our web design/consulting business. But it was a relativly easy business to maintain, the hardest part was finding customers and customer instillations, because there was always a Tree/watertower in exactly the wrong space.
I was gonna' say, how is that even possible! You could hit water just digging with a shovel in my backyard when I lived in South Florida. Basements require major investment and planning to create.Quote:
Originally Posted by ua549
Eh I wont buy a house without a basement, thats the man cave!
Though in michigan almost everyone unless the house is extreamly old has a basement.
Its the perfect place to put a home theater =P the only issue is having to have a grinder pump if your on a septic.
Grinder pumps make the poo poo go up the wall =P
I think doing the WISP thing would be more trouble than it would be worth. I'm talking 5-10 years down the line when I have a house built and it's paid for. I'm not going the long term mortgage route, I'd rather just build my own house at a much lower expense. Sure, I'm going to have to serve some time working construction to build the necessary skills. That said I'm already pretty capable with building just about anything. It might not always look beautiful, but it always works.
I'm going to build some super efficient eco-friendly house, not because I'm a tree hugger per say, but because I want it to be cheap to run.
If you make $50k a year, and don't have a mortgage payment, significant car payment, spending $500 a month on a fibre line doesn't sound so crazy. It's still a bit nuts, sure, but so are the people that go for those adjustable rate mortgages. At least I'm not going to hop in that boat.
State, county and local licensing can be a real legal bee's hive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Recon
One needs building permits, state and sometimes federal approvals for putting up a tower, business licenses and permits and tax permits. After that comes getting customers.
We cheated, we knew the owners of said FM station and worked a deal out with them.
My coworker leases his T3 to his neighbors via a wifi connection. He pays around $5200 a month or so for his connection.
What is even funnier is that a local isp is also leasing part of his bandwidth since he does live in a remote area of town with little or no service.
Damn lucky bugger!
I know he uses repeaters and special devices to extend his wifi a few miles.