Hi, This weekend we went to visit Gnaro's workplace, a cybercafe quite close to the Oaxtepec entrance. We talked with the owner of the place, Fabio, who is a knowledgeable person and quite interested in helping us. I am attaching the map with the relevant information. The cafe is really close from the place we will be working - I don't have the map scale with me (we left the map with Jyr and Tigre so they can use it with Punk0 when he can drop by Oaxtepec), but I guess it's around 400 meters away - But there is an obstacle: A XVI century church and a line of high and old trees. At first, I proposed bulldozing them over, but they feared the locals might have an adverse reaction to that - So probably we can reach one point from the other with a ~10m mast. That's something we need to check really soon. As a second option, Fabio offered to host connectivity at his house (I don't know the exact location, I just put the yellow dot in the general direction he pointed me in the map), from where he says he can directly view the stadium and auditorium. The cybercafe has very good infrastructure. He has over 20 available Telmex copper pairs (not active lines, but copper pairs that can be activated for DSL service), a Cablemás connection, and a DirecTV satellite data uplink. Fabio also acted as a local ISP for some time, so he gave us very good insight on the real situation. Up until now, due to my experiences in Mexico, I strongly advocated for a DSL based solution, because of the stability and effective bandwidth they offer - Fabio says in Oaxtepec the situation is inverted. The last mile infrastructure from the phone central is certainly not stellar, so his DSL lines have a lot of intermitency. He is also worried that the region as a whole does not have enough available bandwidth - I saw many small cybercafes in the town, but he assures me they are all at 512k, probably the Telmex local station has not more than what they actually offer, and they would be hard-pressed if we suddenly demand a 10Mbps increase. Cablemás signal is much more reliable, and in Morelos state, they have better overall bandwidth (their connectivity point is in Cuernavaca, ~50km away, and they have 3 E3 lines, 100Mbps). Yes, they do oversell their services as every ISP does, but not as severely as the cable operators here in Mexico City. Besides, it will be much easier to get them to give us a fixed IP address. I didn't really ask about the satellite link, as its latency makes it a good choice for very few cases, but it's a possibility we can also look at if we cannot get enough bandwidth combining Telmex and Cablemás. Now, I need (and that's why I'm also including -localteam in this mail) somebody to help me get the definitive information on pricing, availability and installation times from both Telmex and Cablemás, as it's not as fast as asking for the service in the city - Jyr, you were there, and the phone calls will be local for you... Could you take care of it? (Nadezhda, can you please send me/Jyr in private the phone number for Fabio's contact in Cablemás as well as Fabio's full name?) I want to have more than one ISP if possible, to reduce the bandwidth overselling problem and increase reliability. Besides, asking each of them for ~5Mbps will scare them less than asking for the double :) Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - gwolf@gwolf.org - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF
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