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

[Aric]

I have the ultimate teir,  they still send me over the limit emails suggesting I up my level.  I called them asking about the level they suggest I upgrade to and they told me to simply ignore the emails.


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-------- Original message --------
From: Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T <jeffh at dundeemt.com> 
Date: 05/25/2014  4:58 PM  (GMT-06:00) 
To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org> 
Subject: Re: [olug] "cstaging" WLAN APs in Omaha metro - WISP? 
 
I got an email from cox the other day about all their wifi, but their maps
only showed a fist full, located at their retail locations.
If they want me to up my service level -- I max out the no-limit cap and
get a 250G letter trying to up-sell me.   Now if the up-sell had  real
value like dense wireless access all over the metro -- then I would take a
real look at upping my level.




On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Tony Gies <tony.gies at gruppe86.net> wrote:

> 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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Jeff Hinrichs
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