Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Jack Unger
Drew, Being in favor of not limiting bandwidth may seem very altruistic but I'm not sure you are aware of the bandwidth/throughput limitations of todays wireless equipment used for last mile access. It's not a question of fitting the business model; it's a question of fitting today's current

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Travis Johnson
You have hit the problem directly on the head. You think a simple Canopy AP is going to solve the problem? Let's say you are allocating 10Mbps downlink on this AP... that would mean 5 customers per AP (@ 2Mbps each). Nobody in this market can survive on those ratios. This service needs capped

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Dennis Burgess - LinkTechs.net
Yes. I am up to 25 gig this month. Course me and my wife have been watching older TV shows over the weekend. ;) -- * Dennis Burgess, CCNA, A+, Mikrotik Certified Trainer WISPA Board Member - wispa.org http://www.wispa.org/ Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik WISP

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Josh Luthman
Couple of things to mention here... I believe (not certain!) that Netflix will do lower quality streams based on your downstream connection. How low it will go I can't say. If a customer wants something they have to pay for it. The majority of customers go with the smallest package (something

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Mac Dearman
I don’t think that there is a PTMP wireless platform available to anyone that will support multi users streaming 2Mbps+ off of a single AP. If this is available – I would like to know whose gear it is and what bank is going to lend the money to revamp an entire network. We have always had

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Dennis Burgess - LinkTechs.net
It is important to understand the business impact on this. If you can deliver these speeds, this also could be a method to enable upgrades of your service. I.e. Customer calls in and says their netflix video is bad, if they do not have at least 2-3 meg , and you offer that speed, upgrade

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Josh Luthman
I have several customer's that stream some kind of data (I've always assumed it was a patch or new game) from Valve's servers. These customers are all on one AP - I think they're a family of gamers. Each of them do a good 2meg+ during the night time or weekends. Josh Luthman Office:

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread George Rogato
Since I moved out here onto the side of the coastal mountains in a little cabin, I have not bought cable or dish. I use my internet. One thing that does happen is I watch a lot less tv and really now only watch some movies, maybe one or two a week. Mostly I watch the news www.foxnews.com or

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Chuck McCown - 3
I think the canopy 450 will do something like 30 down and 10 up. So that could give you 20 simultaneously which statistically could work if you had 50-100 on an AP. - Original Message - From: Travis Johnson To: WISPA General List Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 7:30 AM

[WISPA] Customer issue - data stream halts, can't email

2008-11-24 Thread Josh Luthman
I have a customer running behind a Trango 900 radio. She explains that many web pages (those heavy with images) never fully load and neither of her two email accounts work (using Outlook, the outgoing message just sits in the outbox). I have thousands of pings to this radio from the core router

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Matt
You have hit the problem directly on the head. You think a simple Canopy AP is going to solve the problem? Let's say you are allocating 10Mbps downlink on this AP... that would mean 5 customers per AP (@ 2Mbps each). Nobody in this market can survive on those ratios. This service needs

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread John Scrivner
I think we will eventually see people just leave constant streams open day and night. How many of you leave your TV on much of the time whether you are watching it or not? This throws off the over-subscription model which relates to how many people are using the service at one time. When we start

Re: [WISPA] Customer issue - data stream halts, can't email

2008-11-24 Thread Scott Reed
Cat 5 cable is marginal or connector is not crimped tight. Josh Luthman wrote: I have a customer running behind a Trango 900 radio. She explains that many web pages (those heavy with images) never fully load and neither of her two email accounts work (using Outlook, the outgoing message just

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Mike Hammett
Can anyone provide the ASN the streams come from? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -- From: Dennis Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 3:42 PM To: WISPA General List

Re: [WISPA] Customer issue - data stream halts, can't email

2008-11-24 Thread John Valenti
Josh, Can you have the Mikrotik ping your core? (it sounds like you have only done the other direction) Also, try full size ping packets. Sometimes short packets are fine, and big ones cause failures. After having a batch of bad consumer wifi routers, I have started hooking up a few

Re: [WISPA] Customer issue - data stream halts, can't email

2008-11-24 Thread Josh Luthman
The Mikrotik could ping the core, however, the customer put their Linksys back in place. This customer does need WiFi, unfortunately, they prefer the Linksys over the Mikrotik. Out of 200 pings so far I've lost 1 and 1 jumped in latency. Trango's loopback test (sends frames/packets back and

Re: [WISPA] Customer issue - data stream halts, can't email

2008-11-24 Thread Jerry Richardson
Switchport the AP is connected to? Bad cabling at the SM or AP? Bad power supply on the SM or AP? __ Jerry Richardson airCloud Communications -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman Sent:

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Chuck McCown
OK, then buy a Canopy 430. - Original Message - From: Mike Hammett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 10:31 AM Subject: Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information rantThis is why we need gear capable of higher

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Mike Hammett
Maybe I will, but there's how many vendors out there and only 2 (Mikrotik with an Atheros radio and Motorola) have a product out there that is anywhere close to what we need these days. When I first started in this industry (which many of you have been here longer than I), the thought that a

Re: [WISPA] Customer issue - data stream halts, can't email

2008-11-24 Thread Josh Luthman
The switch, AP, SM/SU and power supplies have all been replaced. Cabling has not been changed, though. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer On Mon,

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Mike Hammett
rantThis is why we need gear capable of higher throughputs. Too many WISPs out there don't press their manufacturers. They'd rather just put up a couple Canopy radios and complain on a list about how they can't deliver X, Y, or Z to a customer. I have complained to manufacturers. WiMAX is

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Scottie Arnett
I read about a model somewhere that might work. The content providers paid the ISP a percentage for delivery of the content. Now I might could live with that if the economics worked out. Scottie -- Original Message -- From: John Scrivner [EMAIL

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread jp
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:31:41AM -0600, Mike Hammett wrote: I will not purchase another AP unless it is able to deliver 40 mbit of throughput, end of story. Fortunately for me, they're out there... Mikrotik can (though uses a lot of spectrum). Deliberant is working on it. I believe the

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Jack Unger
Mike, There are real physical limits to the amount of throughput that a radio channel (X MHz wide) can handle. Ranting at manufacturers isn't going to change this very much. You can only flow so much water through a pipe. Increase the pressure without increasing the pipe diameter and the pipe

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Todd Brandenburg
Here's my two cents on the subject. I've been reading everyone's posts and I think you all have good insight. Interesting enough, I started as a teenager back in the early 80's selling satellite dishes (the large big ugly ones) to people in residential areas and got quite a kick out of

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Mike Hammett
There is a limit to physics, yes. However, we obviously have not met that if some manufacturers can produce products that do it. MT N-Streme can do up to 2.25 bit/Hz throughput. Orthogon Spectra can do 10 bit/Hz, though I don't know if that's radio traffic or throughput. As it turns out,

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Mike Hammett
Scheduled TV belongs on satellite. Satellite is the worst use for on demand, time shifting, DVR, whatever term you want to use for viewing content that the station isn't sending out at that exact moment. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com From: Travis

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Sam Tetherow
I couldn't imagine how the logistics of this would work. What makes sense is if your customer uses more bandwidth, then they pay for it. Everything else is just an inefficient way to do the same. Lets say you are going to charge $150/Mb/month for 95% usage (just picked a number). If the

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Sam Tetherow
Multicast is not going to solve anything, video already has very efficient multicast it is called satellite, cable and broadcast TV. Sam Tetherow Sandhills Wireless Todd Brandenburg wrote: Here's my two cents on the subject. I've been reading everyone's posts and I think you all

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Mike Hammett
The billing model is irrelevant if the gear can't do it in the first place. You could charge $10/megabyte transferred and it would be meaningless if you can't deliver what the customer wants. Yes, the standard billing model needs to change, but using it as an artificial barrier isn't exactly

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Josh Luthman
I agree with Mike as far as the physics limitations. Video cards for PCs are the same thing. They pushed the technology of PCI, AGP, PCI-Express before the video cards even came close to reaching the bus' capacity. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Drew Lentz
Jack, You are absolutely right about this. In the first email you asked if that had been figured in to my thinking of open unfiltered access. It has. Spectrum is a valuable resource and there is only so much of it to go around in each of the allocated frequency sets that are available today. As

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Sam Tetherow
While there is progress to be made in spectrum efficiency there really is a limit of bits/Hz that can be transmitted and once we reach it the only option is to get more Hz. Hz are expensive both in terms of spectrum available (have to start buying once unlicensed is utilized) and equipment.

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Sam Tetherow
Mike Hammett wrote: The billing model is irrelevant if the gear can't do it in the first place. You could charge $10/megabyte transferred and it would be meaningless if you can't deliver what the customer wants. Wants and willing to pay for a two different things. I want a AC Cobra and

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Drew Lentz
Charging a customer by their actually usage is the most 'real' method of billing. In fact the unlimited model is the artificial one that is used to entice people into buying. If the customer always fully utilized their $30/month worth of bandwidth you would go broke. That is a great point.

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Josh Luthman
Don't forget VoIP and it's unlimited calling plan versus ATT and Verizon's several cents per minute over the last several years. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Butch Evans
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Jack Unger wrote: Being in favor of not limiting bandwidth may seem very altruistic but I'm not sure you are aware of the bandwidth/throughput limitations of todays wireless equipment used for last mile access. It's not a question of fitting the business model; it's a

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Travis Johnson
But that's what I am saying... I don't think you can over-subscribe streaming TV/Movies like you can internet. What happens when someone wants to watch TV and it doesn't work because there is no bandwidth available? :( Travis Chuck McCown - 3 wrote: I think the canopy 450 will do something

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Travis Johnson
Honestly, I don't ever see the model changing to metered billing. Telephone service isn't that way. Water service (in my area at least) isn't that way. And yes, some have started, but with 250GB monthly caps, it's not really even a cap. Travis Microserv Sam Tetherow wrote: I couldn't

Re: [WISPA] Customer issue - data stream halts, can't email

2008-11-24 Thread Scott Reed
First, just recrimp the ends. If that doesn't do it, replace the cable. I have had to do that twice in the last 3 months. Josh Luthman wrote: The switch, AP, SM/SU and power supplies have all been replaced. Cabling has not been changed, though. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct:

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Travis Johnson
Hi, My telephone service is unlimited (home landline with Qwest) and could be unlimited cell phone with ATT or Sprint. My water is unlimited. People want "unlimited" service so they don't have to guess what their bill is going to be. Even my electricity and gas bills can be setup as

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Sam Tetherow
Of course they want unlimited. I want unlimited as well. But the issue we are going to have to deal with is, is everyone going to be willing to pay for unlimited such that those who are on the top end of the usage spectrum aren't eating our profit? How much unused bandwidth do you have on

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Matt
My telephone service is unlimited (home landline with Qwest) and could be unlimited cell phone with ATT or Sprint. My water is unlimited. There is almost always 'fine print' in these unlimited plans. Unlimited long distance is almost always not completely unlimited. People want unlimited

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Dennis Burgess - LinkTechs.net
Simple as this... Even if you can supply this bandwidth.. 1. Avg Customer usage goes up. 2. Over subscription rate goes down. 3. Network costs go up to meet increased demand 4. Per Sub costs go up due to the higher usage 5. Profit per sub goes down. Increase back-end costs but no increase

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Dennis Burgess - LinkTechs.net
The local Gas Co here has budget billing The bill changes ever 4 months. During the winter its low, and the summer its way high, why. Winter we use it to heat with, normally I would have 300-400 bills, for a few months, but the summer we only use it for cooking, so it would be 30-40 bucks!

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Drew Lentz
This is the statement that got me: One argument that I have had people tell me, is that the ISP should know this is coming and should have planned for it. Whether it is through watching the amount of bandwidth used over periods of time as a trend or doing market research to find out what is

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Dennis Burgess - LinkTechs.net
Yep. And I would agree there. I also think, WISPs, and even cable cos have the issue that the technology will limit their ability to take this increase rapidly. -- * Dennis Burgess, CCNA, A+, Mikrotik Certified Trainer WISPA Board Member - wispa.org

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Mike Hammett
Depends on where it's coming from. As I said, a 10 GigE to the CDNs (which is where most of the bandwidth is going to be going these days), the price is just equipment and cross connects. Public Peering with route servers (depending on the exchange) gets you 10 GigE for $500 (definitely not

Re: [WISPA] Updated White Spaces mapping tool

2008-11-24 Thread John Valenti
Brian, Thanks again for this! A few comments: (1) I was surprised to see channels 3 4 included, since those are prohibited everywhere (right?) (2) you might include a note on your web pages about the 32km canadian border limitation, also the 40/60km Mexican border limit.

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Sam Tetherow
So how much would 10GigE be to your NOC? Sam Tetherow Sandhills Wireless Mike Hammett wrote: Depends on where it's coming from. As I said, a 10 GigE to the CDNs (which is where most of the bandwidth is going to be going these days), the price is just equipment and cross connects.

Re: [WISPA] Updated White Spaces mapping tool

2008-11-24 Thread Brian Webster
John, I included all the channels because you will need to look at them as adjacent channels that need to be protected. I could have done a lot more with this but the time requirement to provide this as a free tool is well above what I have the capacity to do. That is also why you got the

Re: [WISPA] Updated White Spaces mapping tool

2008-11-24 Thread Brian Webster
I was just thinking about the border buffer zones. That should not be too difficult to create. I'll get to that in a few days and post it as a separate file. I'll let the list know when it's ready. Thank You, Brian Webster www.wirelessmapping.com http://www.wirelessmapping.com -Original

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
sigh We've also started getting a lot of calls from our xbox360 subs. They have trouble getting or staying connected. Me thinks xbox 360 sucks! NO calls from playstation or wii customers. Only xbox 360. I hate ms. marlon - Original Message - From: Dennis Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Josh Luthman
I have complaints from both Xbox 360 and PS3. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Marlon K. Schafer [EMAIL

Re: [WISPA] Updated White Spaces mapping tool

2008-11-24 Thread Mike Hammett
Are the stations going to change the channels once they vacate their analog ones? I thought I heard that once. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -- From: Brian Webster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday,

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Mike Hammett
That's because no one plays Wii or Playstation online... at least nowhere near the same number of people. I honestly don't know a single person that plays Playstation or Wii online, but probably 30 or more that play XBox. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions

Re: [WISPA] Updated White Spaces mapping tool

2008-11-24 Thread Mike Hammett
According to the bottom of page 105, it's 134 km for cochannel operation and 131 km for adjacent channel operation. That means, I guess, that I'm SOL for channels 13, 14, 15, and 16. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com

Re: [WISPA] Updated White Spaces mapping tool

2008-11-24 Thread Brian Webster
I think some will but I'm not completely sure. Somewhere there is a DTV transition database on the FCC web site that may shed more light on the topic. Just haven't had the time to research all of that. Thank You, Brian Webster www.wirelessmapping.com http://www.wirelessmapping.com

Re: [WISPA] Updated White Spaces mapping tool

2008-11-24 Thread Chuck McCown - 3
All the stations were given an extra set of channels to fire up and operate the DTV transmitters. Mostly on UHF. This happened years ago and in this are we have been receiving a digital TV signal for about 8 years. Once the VHF analog transmitters are switched off, the broadcasters I know

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Charles Wu (CTI)
Best practices tell you to build your network for your needs tomorrow, not for today, not for yesterday. Until the cold reality of cash flow and running a profitable business smacks you right in the face and then you're stuck trying to keep yesterday's network running as long as possible...

Re: [WISPA] Customer issue - data stream halts, can't email

2008-11-24 Thread Marlon K. Schafer
I recently had a customer's system do that. Worked FINE with my laptop and his iphone. Was some very strange computer problem. I told them to take the machine to a shop. marlon - Original Message - From: Josh Luthman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Sent:

Re: [WISPA] Updated White Spaces mapping tool

2008-11-24 Thread Scottie Arnett
Since when did the US govt standardize on the metric system? What happened to inches, feet, and miles? LOL, J/K guys. Scottie -- Original Message -- From: Mike Hammett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: WISPA General List wireless@wispa.org Date: Mon, 24 Nov

Re: [WISPA] Updated White Spaces mapping tool

2008-11-24 Thread Scottie Arnett
All the better reason for the subs to forget about streaming, OOPS!, that is another thread. I forgot exactly who it was, maybe Patrick Leary, that was pushing us to upsell our customers to HDTV/digital antennas, anyways... that is looking like a real good idea. Scottie -- Original

Re: [WISPA] Updated White Spaces mapping tool

2008-11-24 Thread Chuck McCown - 3
I had a physics professor that would allow solutions to problems to be submitted in any unit measure. Since he had TAs and grad students doing the grading it was no skin of his nose. Lots of furlongs per fortnight velocity measurements. Units of photon energy to describe frequency. But when

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Butch Evans
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Chuck McCown - 3 wrote: I think the canopy 450 will do something like 30 down and 10 up. So that could give you 20 simultaneously which statistically could work if you had 50-100 on an AP. Ok, so you have 20 people on one AP pulling 2Meg each which is 40 meg stream. If

Re: [WISPA] Customer issue - data stream halts, can't email

2008-11-24 Thread Scottie Arnett
I have saw spyware and/or trojans cause this. Been a PC technician about 6 times longer than a WISP. As much as it hurts, sometimes these things require a truckroll and a hookup of your clean laptop to prove it to the client. I think the original poster said there were more than one PC behind

Re: [WISPA] Customer issue - data stream halts, can't email

2008-11-24 Thread Josh Luthman
That is the one thing I haven't tried. I would have to configure their Outlook settings on my laptop which includes installing Outlook itself... Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Chuck McCown - 3
I deliver 100 mbps wholesale to many rural areas for $3-4K/month type of figure. That includes transport. And stastically, you can oversub it, even with streaming content. You are never going to have all 20 streaming movies all at the same time. I am willing to take the chance. That is how we

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Butch Evans
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Mike Hammett wrote: Where has the innovation in the last few years gone?/rant How many in this industry bitch and moan over the cost of gear? How many would purchase an AP at under $200 and STILL think that's too high? How many in this industry are willing to purchase

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Butch Evans
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Chuck McCown - 3 wrote: I deliver 100 mbps wholesale to many rural areas for $3-4K/month type of figure. That includes transport. And stastically, you can oversub it, even with streaming content. You are never going to have all 20 streaming movies all at the same time. I

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Travis Johnson
You can't oversubscribe it by very much. Most people watch TV from 6:00 to 10:00PM. What happens when they want to watch TV and it just doesn't work? What will you do then? It's not that it will just be "slow" or "sluggish" as normal internet services can be when oversubscribed, it just will

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Chuck McCown - 3
Check out Garrison Utah or Burbank Nevada. Doesn't get much more rural than that. Of course I have spent the most part of the last 20 years slowly building a fiber and microwave network to get to all these areas. - Original Message - From: Butch Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WISPA

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Chuck McCown - 3
OK, maybe not for you. But I am still going to be there trying. And when it fails you can tell me you told me so. - Original Message - From: Travis Johnson To: WISPA General List Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 9:24 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth

[WISPA] WiMax delays?

2008-11-24 Thread Travis Johnson
I don't think this is entirely true. For us, it becomes a "value" decision. If there was an AP that would deliver 100Mbps and could support 1000 subscribers, I would be willing to pay $10,000+ for it today. There is a real "gap" in the products that are available on the market: At the bottom

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Butch Evans
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Chuck McCown - 3 wrote: Check out Garrison Utah or Burbank Nevada. Doesn't get much more rural than that. Of course I have spent the most part of the last 20 years slowly building a fiber and microwave network to get to all these areas. 1. I never said that you can't get

Re: [WISPA] WiMax delays?

2008-11-24 Thread Chuck McCown - 3
Where do you rate Ubiquity Nanostations or the Bullet? - Original Message - From: Travis Johnson To: WISPA General List Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 9:32 PM Subject: [WISPA] WiMax delays? I don't think this is entirely true. For us, it becomes a value decision. If

Re: [WISPA] WiMax delays?

2008-11-24 Thread Mike Hammett
My guess is yes on the WiMAX question. Because it was a buzz word, they could get investment dollars if you mentioned WiMAX. How many people here are buying WiMAX because it's the new and fancy? WiMAX isn't necessarily all that bad if they offered 20 MHz channels for half the price. -

Re: [WISPA] WiMax delays?

2008-11-24 Thread Butch Evans
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Travis Johnson wrote: I don't think this is entirely true. For us, it becomes a value decision. If there was an AP that would deliver 100Mbps and could support 1000 subscribers, I would be willing to pay $10,000+ for it today. There is a real gap in the products that are

Re: [WISPA] WiMax delays?

2008-11-24 Thread Josh Luthman
I must be using a different product line then everyone else here - the Trango Access 5800 has left quite a bit to be desired - short range and at most 7mbps throughput. Mikrotik (costing less new then Trango used) easily outperforms in wireless distance, throughput and (my favorite) capability.

Re: [WISPA] WiMax delays?

2008-11-24 Thread Travis Johnson
On the same level as Mikrotik... maybe just slightly below (because of the lack of a proprietary protocol with polling like Nstreme), but above Linksys, etc. Travis Chuck McCown - 3 wrote: Where do you rate Ubiquity Nanostations or the Bullet? - Original Message - From: Travis

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Chuck McCown - 3
Why not deploy some dragonwave and other high capacity backbone and build your own network to cheap BW. Build to St. Louis with a large microwave backbone and you will wholesale all along its entire length. More than enough to pay for it. - Original Message - From: Butch Evans [EMAIL

Re: [WISPA] WiMax delays?

2008-11-24 Thread Travis Johnson
Josh, I think this was the point. The Trango 5800 series (the 5830 radio) was the top of the line product when it first came out (2001 or 2002 I think). There was nothing else on the market (including Canopy) when Trango first started shipping this product. However, nothing has been done with

Re: [WISPA] WiMax delays?

2008-11-24 Thread Travis Johnson
Butch, As much as I like Mikrotik (I have been using it for ptp backhauls for over 4 years now) and recently ptmp for customers, the ptmp is not on the same level as Canopy or Trango. Having a hardware based scheduler is something that just can not be done in software. The latest improvement

Re: [WISPA] WiMax delays?

2008-11-24 Thread Chuck McCown - 3
If you hang out over at [EMAIL PROTECTED] you will find more than a hundred WISPs, many of them very small operations from 100-1000 subscribers that are 100% canopy. And generally speaking they are kicking butt and taking names in their markets. I disagree that Canopy is not marketed to the

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread George Rogato
Dennis Burgess - LinkTechs.net wrote: Simple as this... Even if you can supply this bandwidth.. 1. Avg Customer usage goes up. 2. Over subscription rate goes down. 3. Network costs go up to meet increased demand 4. Per Sub costs go up due to the higher usage 5. Profit per sub

Re: [WISPA] WiMax delays?

2008-11-24 Thread Travis Johnson
Chuck, We don't use Canopy just because my competitors are using it. And really, any more, the customer doesn't care HOW the bandwidth gets delivered. So why not use a product that can deliver twice the bandwidth for 1/3 the price? ;) Travis Microserv Chuck McCown - 3 wrote: If you hang

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Mike Hammett
I think he's saying that no one has tried hard enough to do it in every part... People like Chuck are here and there, but few are putting forth the serious amount of effort to make it happen. I think in the years coming, the average WISP will be significantly larger than they are now... not

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Mike Hammett
Obviously my other mail hadn't made it to the list when you sent that, but I'd estimate you'd only have to string (aerial is significantly cheaper and has less incidents per mile) 20 miles... you can buy the other 160 or what have you. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Mike Hammett
My numbers are a couple years old, but I'll throw them out there... $300k for a 20 year IRU on fiber into 3 major carrier hotels in Chicago. $20k to bring the fiber to my NOC from the route. $20k - $30k for all optics, routers, etc. $500/month per carrier hotel for space. $0 - $500/month per

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Chuck McCown - 3
Amen, nobody ever said you could build it and rest on your laurels. No small business is safe from changes that come with time. Evolve or die. I am not going to sit around complaining the sky is falling. So the cost to meet the future needs of our subscribers is real, it's not as hard to

Re: [WISPA] Customer issue - data stream halts, can't email

2008-11-24 Thread Steve Barnes
There might be your answer. Outlook. Many outlook setups, if connecting to a Exchange server have allot different setting then a standard POP. If it is an exchange connection. I would recommend setting up a connection in your office and giving them 15 min free time on your net. Make sure it

Re: [WISPA] WiMax delays?

2008-11-24 Thread Chuck McCown - 3
The very best reason to use canopy is because the competitors are using it. It can peacefully coexist with other systems due to gps sync. We are in very tight quarters with a fierce competitor in one very small market. But we never cause each other technical grief. What other product can

Re: [WISPA] WiMax delays?

2008-11-24 Thread Tom Sharples
A lot of folks have a philisophical problem adopting a product that seems to have been designed to cause interference to other equipment trying to share the same band. Tom S. I don't understand human psychology well enough to even begin to explain why this is such a polarizing topic.

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Scottie Arnett
Butch, I am not downplaying your response. The problem I am seeing is that my main competition is two rural cooperatives, the cable comp in my area is virtually nill. The cable co's are privately owned. I am not sure how they(cooperatives) are doing it, but they must be getting $$$ to fund

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Scottie Arnett
Chuck, Me again. LOL. I may be totally wrong here. But how much in USF have you received to service these areas? I know you may prove me to be a dumba$$, but you, yourself, in response to my past previous posts have said you would never serve these areas with competition. There has to be a

Re: [WISPA] WiMax delays?

2008-11-24 Thread Scottie Arnett
OK, ouch, not to get OT here, but have you looked at Samsung? Have you looked at the consumer ratings between the two? Only thing Sony got over them was in the highest end model's, and again this is like buying Alvarion or Canopy to UBQT as far as price is concerned. I may be blind, but I

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread George Rogato
Scottie Arnett wrote: Just a side notethe local Co-op requires you to take their landline to get DSL, we get %95 of our customers who do not want their POS landline and use their cell phone, but the barriers are still there! Scottie Facts are, nobody can succesfully corner 100% of

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Jack Unger
Drew, As I've mentioned before - wireless physics does not allow you to simply and affordably build your network for tomorrow but you do not yet understand this point. No matter what the customer wants (or demands) and no matter how much the WISP wants to build a high-throughput network at a

Re: [WISPA] WiMax delays?

2008-11-24 Thread Butch Evans
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Chuck McCown - 3 wrote: If you hang out over at [EMAIL PROTECTED] you will find more than a hundred WISPs, many of them very small operations from 100-1000 subscribers that are 100% canopy. And generally speaking they are kicking butt and taking names in their markets. I

Re: [WISPA] NetFlix Streaming Bandwidth Information

2008-11-24 Thread Mike Hammett
Sounds like you can't deploy in TVWS soon enough! - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com -- From: Scottie Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 12:32 AM To: WISPA General List

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