I am going to start an ISP
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Tri-County Wifi
Just registered the domain.
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@nerdydad said in I am going to start an ISP:
Tri-County Wifi
Just registered the domain.
Did you use a hifen?
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@bigbear said in I am going to start an ISP:
@nerdydad said in I am going to start an ISP:
Tri-County Wifi
Just registered the domain.
Did you use a hifen?
No hyphen. Tricountywifi.com It's parked right now.
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@nerdydad said in I am going to start an ISP:
@bigbear said in I am going to start an ISP:
@nerdydad said in I am going to start an ISP:
Tri-County Wifi
Just registered the domain.
Did you use a hifen?
No hyphen. Tricountywifi.com It's parked right now.
It is not wifi though.
It is wireless broadband.
Stupid users will think they can connect their pone to your wifi.
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Good point, that will be confusing.
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I do plan on buying more domains and redirecting later on, but don't have the funds for that yet.
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This is a sweet project. Nothing small, good luck.
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@nerdydad said in I am going to start an ISP:
@bigbear said in I am going to start an ISP:
@nerdydad said in I am going to start an ISP:
Tri-County Wifi
Just registered the domain.
Did you use a hifen?
No hyphen. Tricountywifi.com It's parked right now.
I think a hifen would add some flare
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I've never seen hyphen spelled hifen before.
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@scottalanmiller 5 stiff drams deep and I'm in the hands of autocorrect...
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@bigbear said in I am going to start an ISP:
@scottalanmiller 5 stiff drams deep and I'm in the hands of autocorrect...
LOL
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@nerdydad said in I am going to start an ISP:
I do plan on buying more domains and redirecting later on, but don't have the funds for that yet.
TricountyWireless or Tri-CountyWireless...
[grammarnazi]
It's hyphen!
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Never use hyphens in URLs.
In your company name, sure. Not in a URL though.
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After thinking it over the weekend, I think I'm going to stick with Wifi, because other companies using "wireless" gives the connotations of a cell phone company.
Examples:
"Verizon Wireless"
"AT&T Wireless"
"Sprint Wireless"In this company, I am still using wifi technologies (IEEE 802.11ac technologies to be exact) in order to operate this company. Therefore, the "wifi" is staying. This may take some customer re-education but I do believe that it is an important differentiator to make.
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@nerdydad said in I am going to start an ISP:
After thinking it over the weekend, I think I'm going to stick with Wifi, because other companies using "wireless" gives the connotations of a cell phone company.
Examples:
"Verizon Wireless"
"AT&T Wireless"
"Sprint Wireless"In this company, I am still using wifi technologies (IEEE 802.11ac technologies to be exact) in order to operate this company. Therefore, the "wifi" is staying. This may take some customer re-education but I do believe that it is an important differentiator to make.
Interesting - I've never used a WISP before, I just assumed the communications to the tower was something other than typical WiFi frequencies.
How does using WiFi like this affect network saturation in an area?
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@dashrender said in I am going to start an ISP:
@nerdydad said in I am going to start an ISP:
After thinking it over the weekend, I think I'm going to stick with Wifi, because other companies using "wireless" gives the connotations of a cell phone company.
Examples:
"Verizon Wireless"
"AT&T Wireless"
"Sprint Wireless"In this company, I am still using wifi technologies (IEEE 802.11ac technologies to be exact) in order to operate this company. Therefore, the "wifi" is staying. This may take some customer re-education but I do believe that it is an important differentiator to make.
Interesting - I've never used a WISP before, I just assumed the communications to the tower was something other than typical WiFi frequencies.
How does using WiFi like this affect network saturation in an area?
Its just like enterprise wifi. Make sure to first do an environmental test first to see what is broadcasting and its channel width. Then make sure you find a channel that is pretty quiet. This is typically easier to do in the 5 GHz range, as there are still so many channels available with not a lot of interference from other devices, like there is in the 2.4 GHz range (microwaves, other wifi networks, etc.) Weather typically isn't going to be an issue, but visual line-of-site challenges can be, such as trees.
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I'm going to ask for a MOD to fork this topic as it relates to the idea, but is not directly tied to this.
I plan on doing a LOT of installations of CPE equipment. I plan on utilizing U Mobile for aligning CPE with the tower, along with day-to-day managerial tasks, and a VoIP extension. It needs to be rugged with a camera. I don't really care if it is Android or iOS, but would probably prefer Android as that is what I am carrying for a phone right now. Big screen is probably more of a need, battery is not as I can charge it while driving around or in the office.
Anybody have any suggestions?
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@tim_g said in I am going to start an ISP:
Never use hyphens in URLs.
In your company name, sure. Not in a URL though.
tri-county-wifi.com is what I would go with. Looks great!
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@dashrender said in I am going to start an ISP:
@nerdydad said in I am going to start an ISP:
After thinking it over the weekend, I think I'm going to stick with Wifi, because other companies using "wireless" gives the connotations of a cell phone company.
Examples:
"Verizon Wireless"
"AT&T Wireless"
"Sprint Wireless"In this company, I am still using wifi technologies (IEEE 802.11ac technologies to be exact) in order to operate this company. Therefore, the "wifi" is staying. This may take some customer re-education but I do believe that it is an important differentiator to make.
Interesting - I've never used a WISP before, I just assumed the communications to the tower was something other than typical WiFi frequencies.
How does using WiFi like this affect network saturation in an area?
Frequencies are licensed at millions of dollars per year. The only WISP I have ever known to have done this is Clearwire, who's parent company technically owned the spectrum.
In the white space you are just competing with local HAM guys. Newer gear allows the multiplexing of multiple CPE's on a single frequency. I think even UBNT has done this for a while. So that generally solves the problem.
Bigger issue is always weather moving CPE around. If you use the best mounting gear its less frequent.
There are plenty of WISPS that offer dedicated internet and charge premium prices i.e. 100mb up/down for $2,000 per month with a financially backed SLA.
