[olug] starting broadband ISP, any suggestions?

[Kevin]

What is your upstream bandwidth like? Fiber? From who? They are the people
you'll need to buy your IPs from. You don't need to buy a public IP for
everyone, just use NAT(assuming they're home users), although there are
some who would take issue with that. Some of those who would take issue are
people of this list.

Routing could be done using a Linux box. You'd need multiple interfaces,
and you'd want it to be redundant, although you'd want that as part of any
setup you would use. Play with iptables some to get it set up and running
properly.

What kind of networks will you be running that you'll want to keep separate?

On Aug 19, 2012 11:57 PM, "Justin Reiners" <justin at hotlinesinc.com> wrote:

> Hey eveyone, weird question, I have done my googling, to no avail. I was
> wondering if anyone here works for an ISP, or has the understanding of
> first time setup. My boss have come to me with a task, He is looking for
> starting an ISP in his home town, as there are no, 100MB+ isps in the area,
> connection type is fixed wireless, or microwave. He owns a tower in IA, I
> cannot say where exactly it is located because he hosts things for the CIA,
> FBI and such. He also has fiber to the building, unused at the moment, and
> he also has all the capital he needs to get it going. I have some
> questions, He wants to start with 1Gb of bandwidth, and knows plenty of
> businesses in the area that are looking to go faster.
>
> 1. When the fiber is installed, will we be left with a 1Gigabit Ethernet
> port I route off of?
> 2. I assume we will need to buy public IPs. any idea on the costs?
> 3. What types of switches and routers do you recommend, (hoping it is just
> ethernet) (number of users will be around 20 at first, then the sky is the
> limit.)
> 4. can the routing be done using a linux box?
> 5. Can multiple users use the same directional antenna?
> 6. How can we keep networks seperate?
>
>
> Any help will be appreciated. I am hoping someone in the group works with
> this type of thing. google has not been much help, I find a lot of OLD ISP
> pages, talking of dialup modems of such. lol.
>
> --
> Justin Reiners
> www.PartsHotlines.com
> www.MrCycleParts.com
> Service/Support/Training
> Back-end Systems Support.
>     <http://www.facebook.com/pages/PartsHotlinescom/251605051521985><
> https://plus.google.com/102910487271834609118>
> _______________________________________________
> OLUG mailing list
> OLUG at olug.org
> https://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug
>