Started a RT/RW Net business is tricky. Moreover, if you didn't know about the working principles and what is needed to build RT/RW Net infrastructure.

In our experience, some of them who have enough budget is usually a bought high-end equipment without considering the capacity and the intended target market. This is not a problem once again if you do have enough budget.

If you have a limited budget and want to start this kind of business, we have a nice solution for your first start with budget no more than 5 million rupiah (around 500 USD). Although in this practice you can also make this system with lower budget (around 300 USD), but you only obtained minimum specifications and it's very difficult to develop in the future.

What should be considered in developing RT/RW Net system? Why should RT/RW Net system? We'll try to explain the benefits of this business from our perspective:

1. RT/RW Net is an economical solution to build a "selling bandwidth" business with a low cost. Just compare with the cost needed to build an Internet café business which need a place, furniture, hardware (PC) and OS license.
    
2. Before you start doing this business, first thing to do is observe your environment and take conclusions whether it has good potential for you to start this business. For example, if your environment is surrounded by many students or neighbors who have a computer/laptop and no Internet Service Providers around you, then we can conclude that you have a very prospective environment.
    
3. Don't kill a mosquito with a bomb (said one of our lecturers in college). That means adjust the services and equipment you'll buy with the maximum condition that can be absorbed by your market.

   In the early days of your business, your marketing system wouldn't be optimum, you need to minimize operational costs. Still not pictured? Well, you shouldn't buy large bandwidth at the early stages of implementation if you don't know if you can get enough customer to cover your operational costs. Also consider  not to buy high-end equipment at the beginning, adjust with your customers need.
    

4. Continuing point number 3, you must know that every equipment has maintenance costs or replacement cost if damaged. With focusing on ROI, of course, your could allocated some of your income to purchase new equipment that more sophisticated as a backup for the future if your equipment is damaged.
    
5. Tips from Robert T. Kiyosaki: "Invest as much as you are ready to lose". In the calculations we made, to start this business from nothing, we have considered the smallest risk of this business. Therefore, make sure the operational costs of this business is not affect your monthly cash flow. That means make sure you have enough spare budget every month if you don't want to interfere your cash flow when starting this business.

If you want to start this business and wanted to consult further, you can contact us via the contact page or phone number that is on this site. Our cost calculations are made based on the price on December 8, 2009 for Samarinda and surrounding areas.