[olug] "cstaging" WLAN APs in Omaha metro - WISP?

[Tony Gies]

I also noticed I had pretty crappy RSSI to all of them even when I was
seeing eight at a time on my phone. Maybe they're running them at
reduced tx power during testing or something.


Tony Gies <tony.gies at gruppe86.net>
Technical Projects Director
gruppe86 | IT Consulting, Software Development, Systems Integration


On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Tony Gies <tony.gies at gruppe86.net> wrote:
> That's the first thing I thought of too. The existing Cox customer
> courtesy APs are clustered around Cox retail locations and a few
> retail partners and run the ESSID "CoxWiFi" or "CableWifi". Looking at
> WiGLE now, I see several new CoxWiFi stations were first observed
> around the time the cstaging ones started to light up, and they also
> have the same 1C:1D:86 OUI prefix. So that seems like the likely
> story.
>
> It looks like these are pretty dense on the ground in most populated
> areas. This means Cox is either putting the stations inside their
> amplifier doghouses and wherever else they can, or perhaps they're
> running them off of customer equipment (those nice dual-band gateways
> they rent out)?
>
>
> Tony Gies <tony.gies at gruppe86.net>
> Technical Projects Director
> gruppe86 | IT Consulting, Software Development, Systems Integration
>
>
> On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Kyle Simpson <drpunkerz at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Cox is setting up wifi around town for its customers. Perhaps these are
>> part of that?
>> On May 25, 2014 4:05 PM, "Tony Gies" <tony.gies at gruppe86.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone else noticed hundreds of 2.4GHz and 5GHz WLAN APs with an
>>> ESSID of "cstaging" all over the metro recently? Today I observed
>>> clusters of them up and down 84th St and in northeastern Bellevue. I
>>> was looking for where the equipment might be physically located but
>>> couldn't see any sign of it.
>>>
>>> You can see a smattering of them on WiGLE's maps here:
>>>
>>> https://wigle.net/gps/gps/Map/onlinemap2/?maplat=41.23004843331833&maplon=-96.02330780093753&mapzoom=11&ssid=cstaging
>>>
>>> The non-map WiGLE query page brings up about 200 stations with that
>>> ESSID, most with a BSSID in the 1C:1D:86 range which is assigned to Cisco.
>>>
>>> Could this be a WISP gearing up to roll out in Omaha? Has anyone heard
>>> anything about this?
>>>
>>> Tony Gies <tony.gies at gruppe86.net>
>>> Technical Projects Director
>>> gruppe86 | IT Consulting, Software Development, Systems Integration
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