On 25/09/05 01:44 +0530, Guru prasath wrote:
Devdas Bhagat wrote:
Feel free to get a few hundred/thousand of your neighbours together and start off a community ISP.
Can you please explain what is community ISP? Does it exist anywhere in India or World. Is it possible in Indian context and law.
As in "ISP owned and used by the community of users it serves". Plenty of examples in the US, and a few in Europe. There is nothing in Indian law which says that you cannot do this here. It just hasn't been done before.
To my understanding, it is more or less easy and applicable to big big apartments (around 30-40 flats and more) in the cities. What you say?
Actually, if you want to do it right, managed switches, routers and structured cabling are needed. You can get a 48 port switch with L2 packet control for about 35K INR (IIRC, verify prices with your local vendor, and in this case, the software on the switch is more important than the hardware itself). You will have to size the router depending on how much bandwidth you plan to buy, and then get an ISP license.
Running costs would vary from a couple of hundred INR per user per month for a good setup, to about 1500 per user per month for a bad one.
Keep in mind that the bigger your setup, the lower the initial cost per user is.
Devdas Bhagat