New Cisco emitters await being installed on streetlights in the town centerThe public WiFi overhaul bringing downtown Amherst a stronger more reliable system has potentially one minor problem with reliability (actually kind of major): a power failure like the one we experienced almost a year ago on Halloween weekend will take out most of the system, as the vast majority of the 24 new emitters are still tied into the street lights for power.
Note huge spike in traffic to town website seeking info immediately after storm Last year, because the main router is located in Town Hall and the municipal seat of government had no generator, the entire system went down lock, stock and bandwidth. Although the town website did stay up the entire time since the servers for our presence on the Web are located in Holyoke in one of the few areas unaffected by the storm.
A new $85,000 generator is being installed soon, but will only cover the building itself and not any of the adjacent street lights.
The Police station and Central Fire Station have generators and are being outfitted with the new Cisco emitters, as will Town Hall. So if we do experience another major prolonged power outage, those three buildings will attract us smart phones and tablets addicts like insects to a bright light on a hot summer night.
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