Wakenet - Neighborhood Captain

Neighborhood Captain

If Wakenet currently does not service your area through its POP's, you can help bring connectivity to your area by becoming a Neighborhood Captain. Read the following to learn what it takes and if you're interested, please contact us for additional data.

Wakenet Service Requirements

In order for Wakenet to bring service to your area, the area must have at least four members (or the equivalent of) on average per POP at all times - see below for exceptions.

For example, say it takes two new POP's to get to your location and your location has ten new members, this would average out to five members per POP and Wakenet would be willing to pay for the two POP's.

Wakenet needs to decide on a case by case basis on whether it's viable to install bridge POP's. Factors like the number of members and the amount of Wakenet financial reserves need to be considered.

Exceptions to the four member per POP rule

As stated above, in order for Wakenet to remain fiscally responsible, we must average four members per POP.

If for some reason (we believe this scenario is extremely rare) an area's membership drops where there are less than four members on average per POP, the remaining members have the following options:

Encourage others in the area to join Wakenet, or
Make up the difference in membership fees so the average is brought up to the minimum; Wakenet continues to service the POP, or
Pay the current membership and when/if the POP(s) require service, pay for the servicing to the POP(s), or
Pay the same membership and when/if the POP(s) require service, bow out of Wakenet.

Process to Bring Connectivity

After contacting Wakenet and expressing the desire to be a Neighborhood Captain. Wakenet will contact you and setup a site survey to see which of its POP's can service your area.

After a POP location is determined (usually several), you need to contact the home owner(s) at the proposed POP location(s) and see if there's any interest in getting broadband. They will need to agree to having two small antennas installed on their property.

If you desire, Wakenet can accompany you and bring along equipment to show the home owner and to help answer any questions.

Once a POP location is secured, Wakenet will conduct a wireless test between its POP and the location. If the signal strength is sufficient the next step is for you to find additional members. This will involve:

Printing and distributing fliers in your area.
Handling the initial inquiries from people in your area.
Getting GPS locations of the homes who want service in your area.

A good rule of thumb is to expect only 50% of the people will sign up, who initially expressed interest.

If the minimum number of subscribers on average per POP is met, the next step is to install a local POP. After it is installed, new Wakenet menbers can be added to the network.