Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Shared Internet

[Edwin Simmers (edwinsimmers]

When we built our community 20 years ago we ran Cat 5 cables through 
underground conduits (with cable and phone cables) to a central point in each 
residential building. From there we ran more Cat 5 to wall outlets in every 
unit’s rooms. That way our shared Internet could use just one service, one 
modem and one router. 

Many of those unit wall outlets now serve our Ubiquity WiFi access points that 
we’ve scattered around the community using the same SSDI and password. So now 
we have free-range WiFi everywhere and hard-wired Ethernet connections where 
needed. 

Our budget for Internet service, equipment, and Rackspace email provider is 
about $6 a month per unit that we just include in our operating budget.