What equipment is needed to become a WISP

[Wit24]

Hi Guys

I need BIG help. What equipment is needed to become a Wireless Internet Service Provider from the starting point. I got nothing want to go and buy equipment but don`t know where to start.

Thank you very much.

[normis]

how many people do you want to provide interenet for? how far are they from your internet cable? are they going to connect from their laptops to your wifi access points, or they will use some client wireless devices that you will provide? how big of an area do you want to cover?

many questions

[Wit24]

I plan on catering for 500+ clients. Want them to connect with their laptops or cellphones if its possible and some of them with CPE`s if they are staying to far or in difficulty areas.

Its a small town a radius of 7 kilometers

[n21roadie]

@Wit24

I plan on catering for 500+ clients. Want them to connect with their laptops or cellphones if its possible and some of them with CPE`s if they are staying to far or in difficulty areas.

Its a small town a radius of 7 kilometers

Is 500+ the population of this town and what other internet services are available?

[Wit24]

@n21roadie

@Wit24

I plan on catering for 500+ clients. Want them to connect with their laptops or cellphones if its possible and some of them with CPE`s if they are staying to far or in difficulty areas.

Its a small town a radius of 7 kilometers

Is 500+ the population of this town and what other internet services are available?

No the towns population is more than 10000 but internet is very expensive here and I can provide it for cheaper but don’t know where to start with buying the Equipment I already have the ADSL line

Please help!!!

[n21roadie]

ADSL line is not going to help you when you with 500+ clients, as the upload bandwidth gets maxed out very quickly by such programs as Skype Video, Torrents, etc, so unless you can combine (loadbalance ) adsl lines and target for say 20Mbit upload to start with? - no point in having for example adsl line with speedtest 17Mbit down but 600Kbit upload,

Also can you issue public IP addresses to the clients with the ADSL line(s)?

[Wit24]

@n21roadie

ADSL line is not going to help you when you with 500+ clients, as the upload bandwidth gets maxed out very quickly by such programs as Skype Video, Torrents, etc, so unless you can combine (loadbalance ) adsl lines and target for say 20Mbit upload to start with? - no point in having for example adsl line with speedtest 17Mbit down but 600Kbit upload,

Also can you issue public IP addresses to the clients with the ADSL line(s)?

I want to start small to first connect the customers and when the client base grow I’ll get Fiber.
The problem is I don`t know what equipment I need.

[nest]

This may help you understand just a small part of the problems you will have:

http://blog.linitx.com/wisp-box/

[n21roadie]

@Nest

I like the part where it says …“I want to run a WISP from the roof of my house, what bits do I need?”

[Wit24]

@nest

This may help you understand just a small part of the problems you will have:

http://blog.linitx.com/wisp-box/

@Nest. Thank for this link it was very helpful… I will first do my home work properly. Any other suggestion of where I should start?

[n21roadie]

@Wit24

@n21roadie

ADSL line is not going to help you when you with 500+ clients, as the upload bandwidth gets maxed out very quickly by such programs as Skype Video, Torrents, etc, so unless you can combine (loadbalance ) adsl lines and target for say 20Mbit upload to start with? - no point in having for example adsl line with speedtest 17Mbit down but 600Kbit upload,

Also can you issue public IP addresses to the clients with the ADSL line(s)?

I want to start small to first connect the customers and when the client base grow I’ll get Fiber.
The problem is I don`t know what equipment I need.

I would suggest you make contact with a established good WISP some distance away and stay with that WISP for a week or so - just to learn from them?

[Wit24]

@n21roadie

@Wit24

@n21roadie

ADSL line is not going to help you when you with 500+ clients, as the upload bandwidth gets maxed out very quickly by such programs as Skype Video, Torrents, etc, so unless you can combine (loadbalance ) adsl lines and target for say 20Mbit upload to start with? - no point in having for example adsl line with speedtest 17Mbit down but 600Kbit upload,

Also can you issue public IP addresses to the clients with the ADSL line(s)?

I want to start small to first connect the customers and when the client base grow I’ll get Fiber.
The problem is I don`t know what equipment I need.

I would suggest you make contact with a established good WISP some distance away and stay with that WISP for a week or so - just to learn from them?

I use to work a period of 9 months for WISP but that was years ago. I only did the installation work, like drilling holes for the CPE bracket, laying the network cables and crimping also did the network settings on the computers to connect to the Internet.

[wiwillis1980]

@Wit24
I know this is an old forum, but did you ever figure it out?