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WISPs come with their own challenges; namely time and line of sight to another node on the network. Heck I about bought a schoolhouse in rural Michigan until t
by tjr225 4y ago
WISPs come with their own challenges; namely time and line of sight to another node on the network.
Heck I about bought a schoolhouse in rural Michigan until the WISP got back to me and told me they couldn’t provide me service because of the trees in the yard.
- walrus01 4y agoI've seen people erect light duty 60' towers suitable for the wind load of one 60cm ptp microwave dish for a link to a local wisp, can be $2500-4500 all in including shipping, foundation, concrete work, etc.
- tjr225 4y agoThat’s all fine and dandy; I’m happily on the west coast again instead. Happy it didn’t work out! That amount of uncertainty when buying a home and working from is not for me.
- bcrl 4y agoIt's pretty sad that people put that much money into towers when the cost of hooking a home up to fibre (even rural) is in the $1800-2500 ballpark.
- walrus01 4y agoOnly if the fiber provider is in the same area doing a build to serve at minimum a few hundred other homes at roughly the same time. Some people who live in rural areas where they would need a 60-80 ft tower for wisp cpe or starlink may be in a place so far from existing ISP fiber that a new build purely aerial fiber construction project could run $300,000.
- bcrl 4y agoIt's perfectly possible to do FTTH builds for 30-40 homes at a cost of $30-40k. Just make sure you know what you're doing and avoid getting fleeced by engineering consulting firms and high margin construction companies.