<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 22, 2016, at 11:20 PM, Tom <<a href="mailto:tompoe@meltel.net" class="">tompoe@meltel.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 8px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font size="+2" class="" 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-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""></p></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><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 class=""></div><div>I do a lot of work at Olmsted and Mother Mayo (relo’d in April for a year). </div><br style="font-size: 10px;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" style="font-size: 10px;" class=""><div style="" class=""><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font size="+2" class="" style="font-size: 13px;">Tom</font></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><font size="+2" class="" 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></div><span style="font-size: 11px;" class="">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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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></body></html>