Greetings all,


I thought I'd ask here about renting roofspace for a wireless AP / Repeater.


Long story short, what I'm hoping to achieve is a long-range wireless setup between a couple of points around a small suburb in West Auckland.


Now, there's one building (Apartments) which are relatively tall (If you're in the area you'll know what I'm talking about), and they appear to have decent LOS to the places we want to interconnect.


Having never done a long-range WiFi setup before, I figured the first thing I should do is approach the building owners and see if they would be open to the idea of me renting some roofspace from them where I can pop an antenna up and keep it powered. They seemed fine with the idea, however they also had no idea about what would be considered a "fair" amount, and said they would also need to run it past the body corporate of apartment owners there to get their approval. With that in mind he suggested I come up with a figure and he'll bring it up at their next meeting.


What I guess I'm asking is "What is a fair amount for them to be asking from us?", and are there any large pitfalls I should worry about in undertaking such an adventure? I've done a lot of small-time wireless around residential / SOHO, repeaters / bridges etc, but never anything long-range such as this.
It isn't going to be a mission-critical wireless setup, so in the event it does die for some reason or another, if its down for 24 hours we're probably not going to be too upset.


Then the topic came up "If we're going to have some big antennas on the roof, why not offer Internet Access to the rest of the people in the apartment, at a later date, rather than them finding their own through dial-up etc?", which is something I'd potentially be interested in doing (Have used pfSense etc a bit before with captive portals), but one step at a time ...


Any advice / thoughts / comments would be greatly appreciated


Kind regards




Chill.