[olug] "cstaging" WLAN APs in Omaha metro - WISP?

[Tony Gies]

That's the first thing I thought of too. The existing Cox customer
courtesy APs are clustered around Cox retail locations and a few
retail partners and run the ESSID "CoxWiFi" or "CableWifi". Looking at
WiGLE now, I see several new CoxWiFi stations were first observed
around the time the cstaging ones started to light up, and they also
have the same 1C:1D:86 OUI prefix. So that seems like the likely
story.

It looks like these are pretty dense on the ground in most populated
areas. This means Cox is either putting the stations inside their
amplifier doghouses and wherever else they can, or perhaps they're
running them off of customer equipment (those nice dual-band gateways
they rent out)?


Tony Gies <tony.gies at gruppe86.net>
Technical Projects Director
gruppe86 | IT Consulting, Software Development, Systems Integration


On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Kyle Simpson <drpunkerz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Cox is setting up wifi around town for its customers. Perhaps these are
> part of that?
> On May 25, 2014 4:05 PM, "Tony Gies" <tony.gies at gruppe86.net> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone else noticed hundreds of 2.4GHz and 5GHz WLAN APs with an
>> ESSID of "cstaging" all over the metro recently? Today I observed
>> clusters of them up and down 84th St and in northeastern Bellevue. I
>> was looking for where the equipment might be physically located but
>> couldn't see any sign of it.
>>
>> You can see a smattering of them on WiGLE's maps here:
>>
>> https://wigle.net/gps/gps/Map/onlinemap2/?maplat=41.23004843331833&maplon=-96.02330780093753&mapzoom=11&ssid=cstaging
>>
>> The non-map WiGLE query page brings up about 200 stations with that
>> ESSID, most with a BSSID in the 1C:1D:86 range which is assigned to Cisco.
>>
>> Could this be a WISP gearing up to roll out in Omaha? Has anyone heard
>> anything about this?
>>
>> Tony Gies <tony.gies at gruppe86.net>
>> Technical Projects Director
>> gruppe86 | IT Consulting, Software Development, Systems Integration
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