[Ipg-smz] Off the Grid

[Tom Henderson]

It's a grid-based WiFi network. There are several successful models around.

One of them is: One key person gets a fat internet pipe, then 
distributes it to neighbors. Several access points allow multiple SSIDs, 
as in one for each household/entity distributing it.

There's another that uses the unlicensed 900MHz band, where the 
electronics are about $200/node ($100 per side). For safety, and if it's 
sane to do, someone puts a UPS onto the main tap to keep things going if 
it's DSL; if cable, then it may or may not stay up in the event of power 
outages., and if satellite dish, it can be made grid-autonomous with a 
couple of solar panels + two deep cell batteries + inverter.

Lots of ways to do them..... and there's one not far away from where I live.

Ham radio people also can use AREDN, which uses Channel 1 of WiFi/802.11 
in 802.11g mode to make metropolitan nets, which is where the M in MiFi 
comes from (also "M" as in "m"esh).

Tom


On 9/4/19 5:50 PM, Dennisf63 via Ipg-smz wrote:
> On 09/04/2019 02:55 PM, Ken Hess via Ipg-smz wrote:
>> I wonder if a MiFi unit would work for you?
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> You're welcome.
>
> Uhhh -- what's MiFi?
>
> -- 
> Dennis Fowler
> P. O. Box 70
> Otego, NY 13825
> dennisf63 at wildblue.net
>
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Tom Henderson
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