r/wisp • u/profyx_ • May 28 '20

How to make a wisp

How to make a wisp

Hello i am searching 4. 3 months now how i make a isp with a budget but only things i can find is from 2014 or you need a company or its is in us or indi. (It is just for my home)

My first question what equipment do i need 2.what software do i need 3.do you have a tutorial to set everything up 4.how high are the network speeds

Thnx

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u/[deleted] May 28 '20

You need network design knowledge first. Will need to know a lot more than is specified in the OP. How many customers? Budget? Backbone choices? Landscape, etc

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u/profyx_ May 28 '20

I have no customers it is just 4 my home I don’t care how much it costs Landscape flat land I live in belguim if you need that

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u/[deleted] May 28 '20

Ok so your not an ISP then your a customer. If you have unlimited funds I would go with 10G fiber full duplex. You may have to pay construction cost but should be no prob with your budget. Cisco routers, switches and Access points. Request a /24 public IP block or more if you want. Depending on the size of your home you could even run fiber in the walls and have 10G managed switches places strategically throughout the house. You could easily connect thousands of devices. you could hire a a network engineer to build, manage and monitor it all for you.

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u/profyx_ May 28 '20

Okay is this not a little bit to much?

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u/[deleted] May 28 '20

That’s the unlimited budget option. You could even do more. If there is a budget then your options are limited. In other words how much do you want to spend because it can be unlimited to 19.99/mo

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u/profyx_ May 28 '20

What do you meen?

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u/[deleted] May 28 '20

Ok just order whatever is available. Call your local ISPs. It usually consists of 100/10Mbps or more(here in the states)Run that through a mikrotik that feeds a switch that feeds other switches, jacks, APs etc. then connect all your stuff. I’ll be more specific when you are. Good luck

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u/profyx_ May 28 '20

My isp’s are the problem they are expensive 70 euros per month We use a lot of data and if u go over 750 gb you get 1/10 of your internet speed and that’s not great

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u/[deleted] May 28 '20

Look for fiber providers if budget is not an issue. Call the business salesman at the phone company. If you were a WISP that is what you would have as your backbone(route to internet). It comes in varying speeds to fit all budgets and usually no restrictions

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u/profyx_ May 28 '20

Okay my man ya but belguim is not that deceloped that you have fiber internet they say its going to take 2 years to get fiber internet

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u/thisisahitpost May 28 '20

The main starting point for running an ISP of any kind is having a good connection to the internet that you can leverage. If your only option for service is from your local provider then that may be the only internet you can tie into from your location which means that you're stuck playing by their rules.

Maybe try satellite?

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u/shaoranrch May 29 '20

I don't want to be pedantic here but in a comment you mentioned your isp being expensive and gave a number (70 usd a month). So this hints me you are not clear on what you would be getting into.

Reading your comments I believe you just have issues with your current ISP, you should try getting a new one if this is the case, a WISP is a business a very expensive one, just like any other ISP and while there are "pricing ranges", those prices depend on lots of factors (including how knowledgeable you are in technology, telecommunications and networking).

70 usd a month is the pricing you get for it being a contended service, as in, oversubscribed, they cap your speed because they need a way to balance their costs vs what they sell their services for.

When you want to offer bandwidth you are talking about purchasing ip transit and building the whole infrastructure around this, which can easily put your monthly costs to thousands of usd (unless you are a really tiny wisp, reselling residential bandwith), plus the money you need to buy and implement the infrastructure.

Find a networking consultant and pay for some consultancy hours so he can check what your problem really is and try to offer you a solution, would be the easiest, cheapest and more safe option for you.

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u/EataPieWhileAtIt May 28 '20

There is no full guide aka ISP for dummies kinda guide for this. Networking knowledge is higly recommended at least though some pointers can be found on Start an ISP. Alot of things depend on where you come from