Ahh, your talking PTP... I was looking at it from a point to multipoint perspective, that equipment is much more expensive, One recent tower setup was $250K. There isn't going to be a huge advantage to using WiMAX for a PTP situation, especially if is just for a single person, there is equipment that work on other standards that can go that far for(40KM) less than half of that price.
WiMAX for under 10K, I doubt it, if so can you post a Bill of Materials? Besides that WiMAX equipment is just being announced in license free spectrum, so unless he wants to buy spectrum, which would push the budget over 10K for an area, your numbers are BS. Don't forget about Tower rent...
Depending on if you wanted to provide access for a few other people or alot of other people, current providers have 802.l1 equipment that would meet the needs for a decent price, and would be legal.
How many people within say a 20 mile radius of a Tall Hill or Tower are there? Put up a 900Mhz system if you would need to get through trees, or a 2.4 system if most people have line of sight. If you need help finding a wireless ISP. check out www.wispa.org. Hit the mailing lists if you need help finding a connection.
My high school offered a two year course that would allow the students to get cisco certification. Unfortuanatly the instructor found a different job (better pay now that he had cisco certification, paid for by the school) after the first year, so we ended up with a dumbass history teacher that thought he was a computer genius for the second year.
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Ahh, your talking PTP... I was looking at it from a point to multipoint perspective, that equipment is much more expensive, One recent tower setup was $250K. There isn't going to be a huge advantage to using WiMAX for a PTP situation, especially if is just for a single person, there is equipment that work on other standards that can go that far for(40KM) less than half of that price.
WiMAX for under 10K, I doubt it, if so can you post a Bill of Materials? Besides that WiMAX equipment is just being announced in license free spectrum, so unless he wants to buy spectrum, which would push the budget over 10K for an area, your numbers are BS. Don't forget about Tower rent...
Depending on if you wanted to provide access for a few other people or alot of other people, current providers have 802.l1 equipment that would meet the needs for a decent price, and would be legal.
How many people within say a 20 mile radius of a Tall Hill or Tower are there? Put up a 900Mhz system if you would need to get through trees, or a 2.4 system if most people have line of sight. If you need help finding a wireless ISP. check out www.wispa.org. Hit the mailing lists if you need help finding a connection.
Ryan
(Network Administrator for a WISP)
My high school offered a two year course that would allow the students to get cisco certification. Unfortuanatly the instructor found a different job (better pay now that he had cisco certification, paid for by the school) after the first year, so we ended up with a dumbass history teacher that thought he was a computer genius for the second year.