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WiFI on utility poles
- Subject: WiFI on utility poles
- From: tagno25 at gmail.com (Philip Dorr)
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:09:39 -0500
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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On Sep 9, 2015 11:15 PM, "John Levine" <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
>
> The placement may be suboptimal, but free wifi away from home is nice.
> CableWifi really is a consortium, T-W customers can use Comcast's
> hotspots and vice versa.
>
Suboptimal is an understatement. How they are placed around Kansas City,
they are self interfering, unable to hear the clients, and in places that
make no sense (outside of a rural house where the next house is a 1/2 mile
away). I can usually see 5+ of them all on the same 5.8Ghz channel.