<div dir="ltr">justin should be chiming in soon with any luck. i heard usi. give us some of your knowledge justin...</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Ryan Coleman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryan.coleman@cwis.biz" target="_blank">ryan.coleman@cwis.biz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><br><div><span class=""><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 22, 2016, at 11:20 PM, Tom <<a href="mailto:tompoe@meltel.net" target="_blank">tompoe@meltel.net</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><p style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:8px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="+2" style="font-size:14px">Hi, Ryan: Well, it's not too soon to start designing a statewide community emergency broadband mesh network. Rochester is considering the feasibility of such a network as we sit here. :)</font></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Interesting… as I look out my window on Methodist Hospital, Gonda and Charter House all I see is grey skies, no meshes at all :)</div><div><br></div><div>I do a lot of work at Olmsted and Mother Mayo (relo’d in April for a year). </div><span class=""><br style="font-size:10px"><blockquote type="cite" style="font-size:10px"><div><p style="font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="+2" style="font-size:13px">Tom</font></p><p style="font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="+2" style="font-size:13px">P.S. I could be wrong about that. I'm guessing these networks can be sustainable based on a business model that pairs up advertisers with content.</font></p></div></blockquote></span></div><span style="font-size:11px">You don’t need advertisers to get a MESH system going. But you do need about $500-$1000 per site for quality gear that will survive Minnesota weather.</span><div><br></div><div>USI’s Wireless is technically a MESH system. It’s not the hardware Iw ould have used when they started but it is viable now after they upgraded the technology.</div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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