motorola canopy system

I am looking at the motorola canopy system and am interested in placing
modules on buses. Does anyone know if the subsriber moduels are capable of
hoping from one access point to another seamlessly? Is there a better system
for this route?

Thanks in advance,
Bo

"bo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I am looking at the motorola canopy system and am interested in
placing
> modules on buses. Does anyone know if the subsriber moduels are
capable of
> hoping from one access point to another seamlessly? Is there a better
system
> for this route?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Bo
>
>
not sure of your intent - tracking buses or trying to offer hotspot on a
bus ?
The canopy and even wifi is very "line of sight" -
and usually "registered" with a specific AP,
as most of these systems don't have roaming capability like a cell
system -

It's hard enough getting a stationary connection,
not sure how you would implement a moving connection -
especially across a town (with buildings) or a city (high buildings)
or open road - nothing around for miles -

On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 01:48:01 GMT, "bo" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>I am looking at the motorola canopy system and am interested in placing
>modules on buses. Does anyone know if the subsriber moduels are capable of
>hoping from one access point to another seamlessly? Is there a better system
>for this route?
It's obviously possible to provide mobile wireless internet, after all
they have it in commercial aircraft now (boeing connexions service),
but that is a multimillion dollar proposition.

AFAIK canopy is line of site. It is not a wide area access system by
any means. There is a possible way to do what you are trying to do,
it is called mesh network technology. You might look at ricochet,
they have that running in some areas now but it is also a multimillion
$ system. Witness that ricochet was running all up and down the state
of California and that is all offline now, the company went belly up.
They are supposedly providing service in San Diego, CA and in Denver,
CO. They still have unused nodes on light poles all over Southern
California. Why they don't service them and turn them on is anyone's
guess. They are installed, that is the hard part! Solar powered.
Incredible.

Depending on how much area you want to cover I would try something
like the guys in the UK are working on, their site is
http://www.locustworld.com/

But I think you would need a fair amount of money and cooperation to
get that all running. Lots of stations needed.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Witness that ricochet was running all up and down the state
> of California and that is all offline now, the company went belly up.
> They are supposedly providing service in San Diego, CA and in Denver,
> CO. They still have unused nodes on light poles all over Southern
> California. Why they don't service them and turn them on is anyone's
> guess. They are installed, that is the hard part! Solar powered.
> Incredible.

Every Ricochet transponder I've seen in San Diego is powered by tapping
into the (light)pole power supply, not solar powered.