Petition To Change The DAS/PON/Wi-Fi Installation Plan To: The Greenspring Village Board of Directors On behalf of the Residents

of Greenspring and their Families we petition the GSV Board of Directors to require Erikson to change the current plan and not install community WiFi in the private residential apartment areas and instead provide bulk wired Internet service to each apartment with premium options that will have download speeds of 25 Mbps or more. Reasons: 1. We see no compelling need for community Wi-Fi in the apartment areas. Already, each resident can have their own Wi-Fi if they want it, and many do. It is a private residential area, and we would prefer keeping it that way. Cell phones can connect to the Internet through private Wi-Fi if we want it to. We have no compelling need to have it stay connected to the Internet (i.e. via a community Wi-Fi network) in transit between our apartment and a common area like a dining hall and neighboring area. 2. Wi-Fi in the apartment areas is being installed in a way that, according to industry practice (based on thorough and widely accepted studies and results), the approach Erickson is taking will work poorly or not at all. The planned Wi-Fi will not support consistent multiple streams of HD IP video (e.g. NetFlix and Hulu). VoIP and Skype may be erratic and large network downloads may be unpredictable and slow. 3. The inherent technical limitations of Wi-Fi seriously limit speed and reliability. The potentially high levels of Internet speed can not be realized and Internet service may not even be as fast or as reliable as that currently available to us. Erickson will not provide a Service Level Agreement) such as those offered by Verizon or other carriers in regards to guaranteed bandwidth. They claim they are not measuring the quality of the service by bandwidth and yet do not offer any criteria. 4. No device, computers, printers etc. can connect to the network without Wi-Fi capability and many Residents will need to purchase adapters. Residents owned routers, wired or wireless, are unusable. This will be an expense and an unnecessary burden particularly to the less experienced residents. 5. Residents will not have exclusive control of their network security. 6. The Prodigious number of Wi-Fi access points, (40+ per building), can create a severe interference environment that would slow down Internet speed and even preclude Residents from having their own Wi-Fi network.

A detailed rationale is attached.