Designing and Building Rural Wi-Fi Networks: A Do-it-Yourself Cookbook, April 2005
| Published Date | April 2005 |
|---|---|
| Type of Publication | Reports |
| Publication Under | SOM Steering Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation (SCE), Telecommunications and Information Working Group (TELWG) |
| Accessed | 1161 |
| Pages | 233 |
| Download publication | Download |
Description
This book demonstrates how to adapt Wi-Fi to be a low-cost, high-performing, and reasonably reliable solution to providing entire smaller rural towns and villages with Internet access.
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I: Planning Your Rural Wi-Fi Wide Area Network
- Wi-Fi Local and Wide-Area Networks
- Community Services for Your Wi-Fi Network
- Introduction to Wireless Propagation and Coverage
- Creating a Wi-Fi WWAN and Connecting it to the Internet
- Serving Outlying Groups of People
- Powering Your Access Points
- Planning Your Network Security
- Identifying What Equipment You Need and Costing it Out
- Part II: Assembling and Customizing Your Equipment
- Setting up Your Radio Equipment
- Setting up Your Network Equipment
- Packaging Your Equipment
- Part III: Installing Your Wi-Fi Network
- Putting up Your Towers
- Aligning Your Antennas
- Part V: Appendices